The Bureau of Meteorology’s Special Climate Statement 65 confirms the uneasy feeling that April has been unusually warm. The Bureau found that the heat was more characteristic of mid-summer than mid-autumn and "was unprecedented in many areas in April for its intensity, its persistence or both". …
Webb Dock & Port of Melbourne
Waterfront Dispute
22 February 2018 VICT is suing the MUA and the CFMEU for potentially more than $100m over the dispute at Webb Dock last year. VICT has lodged documents in the Supreme Court to launch legal action against the MUA for contempt of court after the court granted an injunction against the union taking …
Future Port
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 …
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 …