The advice is in. Bay West is preferred to Hastings as the location for Melbourne's future port, according to advice given to the Victorian Government by Infrastructure Victoria. The trigger for the move is suggested to be when Port capacity reaches 8 million TEU which it anticipates will be …
Webb Dock & Port of Melbourne
Air Pollution at Station Pier
The cruise ship season extends into May. P & O's Pacific Eden was in today. Station Pier is off limits to foot traffic on cruise ship days but the western wing pier is a more relaxed place to be anyway. Hidden behind Station Pier’s unprepossessing restaurants, the wing pier is a good 'get …
Behind the Wall
So much of what we consume - some say as much as 90% - comes through the Port, yet what happens behind the newly built corten wall on Todd Road is a bit of a mystery. Travelling west over the Westgate Bridge you may have seen a parade of neatly lined up cars on a concrete apron. That expanse …
A very PORT park
In the farthest corner of Port Melbourne where it meets Webb Dock, an eagerly awaited new park and playspace opened this week. The community park is the last of the public benefit works to be delivered as part of the Port Capacity Project which included the upgrade of the Webb Trail and the Todd …
New Year 2017
When white tents appear on Princes Pier in early January they signal that the Christmas-New Year lull is over and the cycle of the year's calendar begins again, They announce Theofania – the Blessing of the Waters - a tradition that has been observed by the Greek Orthodox community at Port …
View from Point Ormond
There’s something about Point Ormond that tells that it has always been a significant place. The Yalukit Willam of the Boon Wurrung gathered here as middens discovered in 1974 confirmed. Beacons were lit here to celebrate Separation and the Bicentenary. Although milder in slope and …