There is a snag in the Yarra River Protection (Wilip-gin Birrarung murron) Act 2017. Snags - sticks, logs, trunks, trees and roots - were once a feature of the Yarra River. Snags made the River difficult to navigate and were part of the rationale for digging the Coode Canal. To facilitate and …
Webb Dock & Port of Melbourne
Two stories of the River
Benjamin Hoare’s Jubilee History of the Melbourne Harbor Trust 1877 - 1927 is essential reading here at Port Places. I'm charmed by his expression and the presentation. The tome includes tablecloth sized maps, friezes of ships decorate the pages, and each chapter leads with a Port themed …
Shipping News
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". …
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 …