Port of Brisbane

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Port of Brisbane
Brisbane City Council, Queensland

Fisherman Island and the Port of Brisbane from space

Postcode:

4178

Location:

22 km (14 mi) from Brisbane GPO

LGA:

Brisbane City Council

Federal Division:

Division of Bonner

Suburbs around Port of Brisbane:

Brisbane Airport	Port of Brisbane
Pinkenba	Lytton

Port of Brisbane is the shipping port of Brisbane, on the east coast of Australia. It is located in the lower reaches of the Brisbane River on reclaimed land that was once called Fisherman's Island at the mouth of the river. It currently is the third busiest port in Australia and the nation's fastest growing container port. It includes the main shipping channel across the Moreton Bay which extends 90 km north to Mooloolaba and is dredged to maintain a depth fourteen metres at the lowest tide.

Queensland's next two largest ports are the Port of Gladstone and the Port of Townsville.

According to the Queensland Department of Primary Industries the Port of Brisbane was the most likely entry point of the South American fire ant to Australia.^[1]

1 Facilities
2 Transport links
3 Expansion
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Facilities

The port is managed by the Port of Brisbane Corporation (PBC) and facilitates more than 2000 ships each year. The Port of Brisbane has nine deep-water container berths and three deep-water bulk berths as well as 17 bulk and general cargo berths. In total the port transports more than 25 million tonnes of cargo each year.

The cruise ship wharf for Brisbane is called the Pinkenba Wharf and is managed by the Port of Brisbane authority.

The port accommodates a visitors centre and in 2005 a shorebird roost was constructed. The bird roost is the largest site built specifically for migratory shorebirds on the east coast of Australia.

[edit] Transport links

The Port of Brisbane Motorway is a short road linking the Gateway Motorway to the Port of Brisbane.

In 1980 a narrow gauge (1067 millimetres) railway line was opened between the port and a junction near Lindum on the Cleveland line. This was converted to dual 1435/1067 mm gauge in about 1995 under the Keating Government's One Nation program.^[2]

[edit] Expansion

The Port of Brisbane is currently under a large upgrade and extension spending AUS $50 million on infrastructure and a further AUS $50 million on equipment including fourteen new automated straddle carriers.