CONTAINER TERMINALS

The Port of Brisbane has the equivalent of eight 300m container berths (2,469m of quayline), which are leased and operated by three stevedores - Patrick Terminal, DP World and Brisbane Container Terminals - all of which use automated container handling equipment.

DP World Brisbane leases and operates Berths 4-7, with four super post-panamax cranes and one post panamax crane (all twin-lift container cranes) as well as 16 automated stacking cranes (ASCs).

Patrick Terminals leases and operates Berths 8-10, with five post-panamax cranes and 35 automated straddle carriers.

Brisbane Container Terminals occupies Berth 11 and 12, with equipment four postpanamax quay cranes and six automated stacking cranes.

PBPL owns the wharves, providing 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 696m of general-cargo wharves, which can handle break-bulk cargo, containers, motor vehicles and other roll on/roll off cargo.The berths are equipped with two conventional panamax container cranes, one mobile harbour crane and one Liebherr LPS550 mobile harbour crane (rail mounted – maximum lifting capacity 154 tonnes).

The Grain Berth can accommodate some car carrier vessels. This berth can be used for motor vehicles when available and suitable for the vessel. Heavy loads in excess of 90t require PBPL’s approval to transit to wharves 1-10 at Fisherman Islands.

Other wharf load constraints are available on application. Please contact PBPL Port Operations for more information.

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:

PORT OF BRISBANE

• Coal terminal (Queensland Bulk Handling Pty Ltd)

• Grain/cottonseed/sugar terminal (GrainCorp)

• Cement/clinker plant (Sunstate Cement Ltd)

• Woodchip terminal (Queensland Commodity Exports Pty Ltd)

• General Purpose Berth (PBPL)

UPRIVER

• Pinkenba Common-User Berth (PBPL/Graincorp)

• Sims Berth

• Incitec Pivot South

• Queensland Bulk Terminal (Wilmar Gavilon)

• Cement Australia 

• Wagners 

• Viva Energy 

• ​Ampol Lytton Products Wharf 

WET-BULK TERMINALS

Most wet-bulk facilities at the Port are refined-products berths.

Brisbane has one oil refinery – Caltex at Lytton – with a crude-oil berth and a products berth used for refined imports and exports. Other refined products are handled through the Port’s common user berths at Luggage Point, Pinkenba and Fisherman Islands, or private berths at Port North.

Animal and vegetable oils and chemicals are moved through terminals at Pinkenba and Colmslie.