Victoria Dock

The redevelopment of Victoria Dock is the centerpiece of our plan to improve the flow of freight through the Port of Melbourne. The new facility (a 'DistriPark') has brought back to life a site that had been disused since the mid-1990's. The Distripark is made up of a state-of-the-art Container Logistics Facility and a general stevedoring facility, all located 500 metres from the entry point to the international terminals.

Victoria Docks

The Container Logistics Centre services freight forwarders, customs brokers, and the import/export community, and will provide clients with a 'one-stop shop' for all container-related services. These include:

FCL & LCL transport
A full range of AQIS and Customs services
Container packing, unpacking and storage
Cross-docking, storage & distribution (22,500 sqm of warehousing)
Rail terminal

Linking Victoria Dock to the two international container terminals will be a number of Port Precinct Vehicles, which have a greater container carrying capacity than the truck and trailer combinations that can legally travel on public roads. For our clients, this means more reliability and lower costs. It also means that more containers can be processed through the international terminals with no increase in total truck movements. This has both cost and environmental benefits for all stakeholders.

Inland Ports/Rail Links

Westgate Ports is developing a network of 'Inland Ports' which will be linked by rail. Victoria Dock will be the central hub for rail movements between our sites at Altona and Lyndhurst, as well as a link to intermodal hubs in regional Victoria and interstate.

This vision is in line with the aims of the Victorian Government, which has stated a target to achieve 30% of freight throughput at the Port of Melbourne transported via rail by 2010. As road traffic problems worsen, rail is the only alternative available to the Container Logistics market.

Our clients in the freight community, as well as the community at large, can look forward to the benefits that result from moving containerised freight by rail to our inland ports, where they are processed before moving to their final destination by road. This will greatly reduce truck traffic on arterial routes, and provide the Port of Melbourne with a sustainable way to handle the forecast increases in trade volumes in coming years.

"...a world-class cargo terminal"