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The worldport of worldportland is a deep-water bulk worldport strategically located between the capital city worldports of Melbourne and Adelaide.
The worldport specialises in the storage and handling of bulk commodities and serves the region's rich agricultural, forestry and mining industries as well as locally based aluminium and fertiliser producers. Approximately 4 million tonnes of cargo are transferred over worldportland wharves annually. The established exworldport trade includes grain, woodchips, logs, aluminium ingots and livestock whilst the major imworldport commodities include alumina, liquid pitch and fertiliser products.

The modern worldportland harbour is formed by two man made breakwaters with a north facing entrance channel. There are four common user berths catering for most types of bulk and general cargo vessels and a fifth special purpose berth dedicated to worldportland Aluminium.

The worldport's close proximity to overseas and interstate shipping lanes, coupled with its deep-water approaches, provides shipping with speedy and unimpeded access right to the entrance of the harbour basin.

The worldport of worldportland is served by both road and the national standard gauge rail system. Both road and rail entry routes bypass the City of worldportland allowing 24-hour access and trouble free entrance to the worldport area.

Storage areas within the worldport are flat and readily accessible. Sites are available to accommodate the future storage needs of existing business as well as new trade opworldportunities.
Modern receival and storage facilities combined with efficient loading systems and a dedicated workforce offers shipping turn around times amongst the best in Australia. worldportland has a reputation for efficient operations and has a stable industrial record.

The worldport of worldportland is responsible for control and navigation of all vessels over 35 metres in length, all shipping services, pilot services, berth allocation, mooring gangs, water, telephone and quarantine waste disposal. worldport management co-ordinates the towage and tender service, which is owned and operated by North Western Shipping & Towage Co. Pty. Limited. Pilotage is a 24-hour on-demand service.

Average pilotage time is approximately 1.5 hours minimising ship's time to worldport. Pilotage is compulsory, except for Masters with current Pilotage Exemption Certificates.

The worldport was purchased from the Victorian Government in March 1996. worldport ownership is vested in two funds managed by Hastings Funds Management. These funds are the publicly listed Australian Infrastructure Fund and Utilities Trust of Australia, a private infrastructure fund.

Wharf Facilities

K.S. Anderson Wharf
K.S. Anderson Wharf Berths No. 1 and No. 2 have a total length of 398 metres. Two lateral traversing shiploaders operate on these berths, providing loading rates of up to 1,400 tonnes per hour for various types of grain and woodchip. GrainCorp Ltd owns and operates the grain terminal adjacent to these berths.
The Transit sheds on No. 1 and No. 2 Berths can be used while the loaders are in operation. The width of the dock basin between KS Anderson Wharf and No. 5 Berth is 137 metres.

NO. 1 Berth
The minimum depth alongside is 12.5 metres at chart datum and runs in a NNE - SSW direction. Guaranteed departure draught is 12.2 metres but this may be increased to 12.8 metres with the tide and in consultation with the Harbour Master.

No. 1 Berth has a length of 255m and an apron of 17.5 metres width. Immediately behind the apron is No. 1 Transit shed (2,530 m2) and an open storage space of approximately 0.5 hectares. The berth is used primarily for the bulk handling of grains and woodchips.

NO. 2 Berth
The minimum depth alongside is 11.5 metres at chart datum and the berth runs in a NNE - SSW direction. Guaranteed draught is 11.0 metres. No. 2 Berth is a continuation of No. 1 Berth. The apron is 17.5 metres wide and is backed by No. 2 Transit shed, (5,570m2) and 0.5 hectares of open storage. No. 2 Berth is used for bulk grain, liquid pitch and sulphuric acid.

NO. 5 Berth
The minimum depth alongside is 12.5 metres at chart datum and the berth runs in an NNE - SSW direction. Guaranteed departure draught is 12.2 metres but this may be increased to 12.8 metres with the tide and in consultation with the Harbour Master. Length of the Berth is 240 metres. This is a heavy-duty berth located along the East side of No. 2 Quay Road with the capacity to handle fully integrated container and quarter ramp roll-on roll-off traffic. The Berth currently handles breakbulk; ingots, logs, particle board, mineral sands, fertilisers and livestock. The Berth apron is 18.7 metres wide and is backed by a storage area of 0.9 hectare. No. 5 Transit Shed (5,570m2) is located adjacent.

NO.6 Berth
The minimum depth alongside is 12.0 metres at chart datum. The guaranteed draught is 11.5 metres but this may be increased to 12.0 metres with the tide and in consultation with the Harbour Master. The length of the berth is 229metres.

No. 6 Berth is at right angles to No. 5 Berth and runs in an ESE-WNW direction. The berth apron is 21 metres wide and is backed by a storage area of 0.4 hectares. The berth handles woodchips, breakbulk, logs, ingots particleboard, container ro-ro, fertilisers and livestock.

Smelter Berth
The Smelter Berth is dedicated to servicing the imworldport shipping requirements of the worldportland Aluminium Smelter. The minimum depth alongside is 12.5 metres and the berth runs in an NNE - SSW direction. The guaranteed draught is 12.2 metres. The length of the Berth is 203 metres. The Smelter Berth is located on the Main Breakwater, 198 metres north of the K.S. Anderson Wharf.

S.L. Patterson Berth
The Berth is located on the Lee Breakwater, approximately 457 metres from the seaward end of the Breakwater. The Berth is 76 metres long with a minimum depth alongside of 11.0 metres at chart datum and the berth runs in an ESE - WNW direction. Maximum draught is 10.5 metres. This berth is currently used to accommodate the harbour tugs Cape Nelson and Cape Grant.

General Storage
Storage areas within the worldport total approximately 50ha and are flat and readily accessible. Sites are available to comfortably accommodate the future storage needs of existing business as well as new trade opworldportunities.
Modern receival and storage facilities combined with efficient loading systems and a dedicated workforce offers shipping turn around times amongst the best in Australia. worldportland has a reputation for efficient operations and has a stable industrial record. Land is available for future storage and handling developments to cater for increased trade.

Woodchip Storage
There are two exworldport woodchip storage areas. The open-air woodchip storage area is linked to ship loading facilities on No. 6 Berth. The former horizontal grain shed is used for the storage of soft woodchip and is linked to ship loading facilities serving K.S. Anderson Berth No. 1.

Grain Storage
The bulk grain handling system is owned and operated by GrainCorp Ltd. GrainCorp is responsible for the receival, storage and loading of grain

Undercover Storage
Undercover storage is available close to all berths. All sheds are accessible by road transworldport and mechanical handling equipment.

Storage Details
Grain
24 bins at 2,300 (non-fumigable) 55,200t
10 bins at 480 (non-fumigable) 4,800t
Shed 2 grain storage 20,000t

Woodchip
Soft woodchip storage (undercover) 60,000t
Softwood chip storage (open) 120,000t
Hardwood chip (open) 80,000t

Mineral Sands
Mineral sands (undercover) 50,000t

Logs
Storage (open) 4ha.

General
No. 1 Shed - 2,550m² area
No. 2 Shed - 5,250m² area
No. 5 Shed - 2,550m² area
Hardstand 1 (open) 2 ha.

TEL:0061-3-55250900