Port of Brisbane is the shipping

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and coastal suburb of the

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, on the east coast of

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, Australia. In the , Port of Brisbane had no residents living in the suburb. The port is the largest in the state of Queensland.

Geography

Port of Brisbane is located in the lower reaches of the Brisbane River on Fisherman Island, an

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reclaimed from the smaller Fisherman Islands group at the mouth of the river, adjacent to Brisbane Airport. It currently is the third busiest port in Australia and the nation's fastest growing

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port. It is the endpoint of the main shipping channel across

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which extends north to

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and is

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's next two largest ports are the

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and the

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. According to the former

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the Port of Brisbane was the most likely entry point of the South American

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to Australia. About 60% of the coal transported through the port originates from the New Acland Mine.

History

In 1980, the narrow gauge () Fisherman Islands line was opened between the port and a junction near

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on the

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line. This was converted to dual / gauge in 1997 under the Keating Government's One Nation program. In January 2008, Port of Brisbane Corporation signed an agreement with Brisbane Container Terminals, a wholly owned subsidiary of

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, subsidiary of Hutchison Whampoa, which Hutchison will operate berths 11 and 12 for 42 years. Deposits of silt and sediment in the ports channels and berths have caused delays of up to five days in the delivery of cargo including oil supplies. This has occurred in 2011, 2013 and 2014. Millions of dollars is spent on dredging annually. In the , Port of Brisbane had no residents.

Facilities

Port of Brisbane from Redcliffe Point at Redcliffe, Queensland

The port is managed by the Port of Brisbane Pty Ltd (PBPL) under a 99-year lease from the

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. The Port of Brisbane has 29 operating berths including nine deep-water container berths and three deep-water bulk berths as well as 17 bulk and general cargo berths. In total the port facilitates more than 2,600 ships each year and transports more than 28 million tonnes of cargo each year.

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was completed in 2006 and is an international standard facility for cruise liners, offering restaurants, coffee shops, gift shops, and other facilities. However, due to the height restrictions of the

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and length restriction of that far upstream, the larger ocean-going cruise liners must dock further down the river at the more industrial Multi User Terminal at the Port of Brisbane. In late 2020, the Brisbane International Cruise Terminal opened on the northern bank of the Brisbane River in the suburb of

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opposite the port. The cruise terminal is located at Luggage Point next to the Luggage Point Sewage Treatment Plant (which has been renamed the Luggage Point Resource Recovery Centre). The terminal can accommodate the largest cruise vessels in the world. It is operated by the port but will not be part of the suburb of Port of Brisbane. The port accommodates a visitors centre and in 2005 a

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Transport links

The Port of Brisbane Motorway is a short road linking the

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to the Port of Brisbane.

Expansion

References

External links

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