QUEENSLAND'S GERMAN CONNECTIONS - PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

oduced by the Port of Brisbane Pty Ltd cked Mail Bag 1818 Port of Brisbane Queensland 4178 Ph: +61 7 3258 4888 fax: +61 7 3258 4703 ernet site: www.portbris.com.au email: the.editor@portbris.com.au issn 1833-0835 claimer: Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that the information contained in this publication is urate, the Port of Brisbane Pty Ltd gives no warranty regarding this information and accepts no liability for any onvenience, or any direct or consequential loss, arising from reliance upon this information. readers should dertake their own enquiries in relation to any of the facts referred to before acting upon them.

The Port of Brisbane and upriver facilities comprise 29 operating berths and over 7.5km of quayline. Seven container berths (over 1.8km of quayline), are leased and operated by two stevedores: DP World Brisbane with two conventional Panamax container gantry cranes, two Post-Panamax and two Super Post Panamax cranes, across Berths 4–7; and Patrick with three conventional Panamax container gantry cranes, two Post-Panamax cranes, and 27 automated straddle carriers across Berths 8–10. Following the completion of Berth 10 in 2009, Patrick and DP World Brisbane increased their quayline to 900m each. The Port of Brisbane has 700m of general-cargo wharves that can handle break-bulk, 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, managing cargo receival and delivery. The berths are equipped with one conventional Panamax container crane and one mobile harbour crane. 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 mainly for imports and a products berth primarily for refined exports. Shell (Pinkenba) and Neumann Petroleum also handle refined products. Animal and vegetable oils and chemicals move through terminals at Pinkenba and Hamilton. The grain berth has been extended by 50m to accommodate some pure car-carriers, when suitable for the vessel. Dry-bulk facilities are flexible, some dedicated to a particular user, others sharing facilities with non-bulk trades, including: * Coal terminal * Grain/cottonseed/sugar terminal

The Port of Brisbane is Australia’s fastest growing container port, and Queensland’s largest general cargo port. The Port of Brisbane is located at the mouth of the Brisbane River and is managed and developed by the Port of Brisbane Pty Ltd (PBPL) under a 99-year lease from the Queensland Government. PBPL is owned by the Q Port Holdings (QPH) consortium, comprising four of the world’s largest and most experienced infrastructure investors. The members are: Global Infrastructure Partners; Industry Funds Management; QIC Global Infrastructure on behalf of its managed funds; and Tawreed Investments Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.

PBPL’s role, as defined by the port lease, includes: * the maintenance and development of the port and related facilities * the provision of port services, including: > operation of the Brisbane Multimodal Terminal > leasing and managing land for port-related services > facilitation of the development approval process for developments on Brisbane core port land > maintaining navigable access to the port for commercial shipping > operating the Visitors Centre. Other port operations, including stevedoring and towage, are carried out by private operators who lease land from PBPL. Vessel traffic services are the responsibility of the Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads, and pilotage services are carried out by a private operator. The Port of Brisbane is the closest major container port to the country’s largest export market in the Asia Pacific Rim. The port is up to five sailing days closer to Asia than southern ports. Situated on the southern side of the Brisbane River, just 24km from Brisbane’s Central Business District, our port provides an interface between rail, road and sea transport.

* Cement/clinker plant * Woodchips terminal

* General Purpose Wharf * Pinkenba bulk terminal * Pinkenba & Gibson Island fertiliser/chemicals * Private Berth (formerly sugar terminal)

* Bulwer Island cement/clinker plant * Hamilton wharf/Maritime wharf

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