The Port of Brisbane has 29 operating berths and over 7,500m of quayline at the Port of Brisbane and upriver facilities.
| Berth |
Number |
| Container |
7 |
| Oil – crude and refined |
5 |
| General Purpose (Fisherman Islands) |
1 |
| Grain/woodchip/cottonseed |
1 |
| Grain/dry bulk/general cargo (Pinkenba) |
1 |
| General cargo/motor vehicles |
3 |
| Clinker (Bulwer Island) |
1 |
| Coal/clinker |
1 |
| Chemicals and fertilisers |
2 |
| Queensland Bulk Terminal (formerly sugar) |
1 |
| Wet bulk |
2 |
| Forgacs Cairncross dock fit-out berths |
2 |
| Cruise-vessel facility |
1 |
| Bulk Products Private Berth |
1 |
Container Terminals
The Port of Brisbane has seven container berths (1,800m of quayline), which are leased and operated by two stevedores.
DP World Brisbane leases and operates Berth 4-7, with two conventional Panamax container gantry cranes, two Post-Panamax and two Super Post-Panamax cranes. Patrick leases and operates Berths 8-10, with three conventional Panamax container gantry cranes, two Post-Panamax cranes, and 27 automated straddle carriers.
Following the completion of Berth 10 in 2009, Patrick and DP World Brisbane have increased their quayline to 900m each. This incorporates Patrick moving out of Berth 7 and into 10, and DP World Brisbane moving into Berth 7.
PBC 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 700m 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:
- Coal terminal
- Grain/cottonseed/sugar terminal
- Cement/clinker plant
- Woodchips terminal
- General Purpose Wharf
- Pinkenba bulk terminal
- Pinkenba and Gibson Island fertiliser/chemical plant
- Private Berth (formerly Sugar terminal)
- Bulwer Island cement/clinker plant
- Hamilton wharve/Maritime wharve (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 (Pinkenba) 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.
The Port of Brisbane has 29 operating berths and over 7,500m of quayline at the Port of Brisbane and upriver facilities.
| Berth |
Number |
| Container |
7 |
| Oil – crude and refined |
5 |
| General Purpose (Fisherman Islands) |
1 |
| Grain/woodchip/cottonseed |
1 |
| Grain/dry bulk/general cargo (Pinkenba) |
1 |
| General cargo/motor vehicles |
3 |
| Clinker (Bulwer Island) |
1 |
| Coal/clinker |
1 |
| Chemicals and fertilisers |
2 |
| Queensland Bulk Terminal (formerly sugar) |
1 |
| Wet bulk |
2 |
| Forgacs Cairncross dock fit-out berths |
2 |
| Cruise-vessel facility |
1 |
| Bulk Products Private Berth |
1 |
Container Terminals
The Port of Brisbane has seven container berths (1,800m of quayline), which are leased and operated by two stevedores.
DP World Brisbane leases and operates Berth 4-7, with two conventional Panamax container gantry cranes, two Post-Panamax and two Super Post-Panamax cranes. Patrick leases and operates Berths 8-10, with three conventional Panamax container gantry cranes, two Post-Panamax cranes, and 27 automated straddle carriers.
Following the completion of Berth 10 in 2009, Patrick and DP World Brisbane have increased their quayline to 900m each. This incorporates Patrick moving out of Berth 7 and into 10, and DP World Brisbane moving into Berth 7.
PBC 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 700m 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:
- Coal terminal
- Grain/cottonseed/sugar terminal
- Cement/clinker plant
- Woodchips terminal
- General Purpose Wharf
- Pinkenba bulk terminal
- Pinkenba and Gibson Island fertiliser/chemical plant
- Private Berth (formerly Sugar terminal)
- Bulwer Island cement/clinker plant
- Hamilton wharve/Maritime wharve (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 (Pinkenba) 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.