Port Facilities
The Port of Brisbane has 27 operating berths and over 7,700m of quayline at the Port of Brisbane and upriver facilities.
| Berth | Number |
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| Container | 6 |
| Oil – crude and refined | 5 |
| Grain/woodchip/cottonseed | 1 |
| Grain/dry bulk/general cargo (Pinkenba) | 1 |
| General cargo/motor vehicles | 5 |
| Clinker (Bulwer Island) | 1 |
| Coal/clinker | 1 |
| Chemicals and fertilisers | 2 |
| Sugar | 1 |
| Wet bulk | 2 |
| Forgacs Cairncross dock fit-out berths | 2 |
| Cruise-vessel facility | 1 |
Container Terminals
The Port of Bribane has six container berths (1,437m of quayline), which are leased and operated by two national stevedores.
DP World Brisbane leases and operates Berth 4-6, with three conventional Panamax container gantry cranes, one Post-Panamax and two Super Post-Panamax cranes (from May 2007). Patrick leases and operates Berths 7-9, with four conventional Panamax container gantry cranes, two Post-Panamax cranes, and 23 automated straddle carriers.
The Corporation owns the wharves, provides a significant proportion of fixed improvements, and issues priority-use licences and leases for their operation.
General Cargo and Motor Vehicles
The Port of Brisbane has 697m of general-cargo wharves that can handle break-bulk cargo, containers, motor vehicles and other ro/ro cargo.
AAT leases and manages Berths 1-3 with various stevedores loading and unloading ships at these berths. AAT manages cargo receival and delivery. The berths are equipped with one conventional Panamax container crane and one mobile harbour crane.
The grain berth has been extended by 50 metres to accommodate some pure car carrier vessels. This berth can be used for motor vehicle when available and suitable for the vessel.
Dry-Bulk Terminals
The port’s dry-bulk facilities have flexible operational arrangements, with some fully dedicated to a particular user and others sharing wharf facilities with non-bulk trades. These facilities include:
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Coal terminal
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Grain/cottonseed/sugar terminal
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Cement/clinker plant
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Woodchips terminal
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Pinkenba bulk terminal
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Pinkenba and Gibson Island fertiliser/chemical plant
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Sugar terminal
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Bulwer Island cement/clinker plant
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Hamilton whaves/Maritime wharves (over the next few years these facilities will be progressively relocated).
Wet-Bulk Terminals
Most wet-bulk facilities at the port are either crude-oil or refined-products berths.
Brisbane has two oil refineries – Caltex at Lytton and BP at Bulwer Island – each with a crude-oil berth used principally for imports and a products berth used chiefly for refined exports. Shell and Neumann Petroleum Terminals also handle refined products through the port.
Animal and vegetable oils and chemicals are moved through terminals at Pinkenba and Hamilton.
