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Summary
Max. Size:
Breakbulk:
70,000 d.w.t., LOA 200 m., beam 32.2 m.
Containers:
70,000 d.w.t., LOA 200 m., beam 32.2 m.
Bulk:
220,000 d.w.t., LOA 315 m., beam 55.0 m.
Tankers:
95,000 d.w.t., LOA 225 m., beam 43.0 m.
Gas:
LOA 315 m., beam 55.0 m.
Fuel:
All grades.
Airport:
Gladstone Domestic, 3 km.
Repairs/Drydocks:
Minor deck and engine repairs possible.
Medical:
Facilities available.
Gladstone
AUGLT
Also see
General before first Australia port
OVERVIEW:
A naturally sheltered port, Gladstone is the principal port of central Queensland.
The port handles dry and liquid bulk, containers and breakbulk cargo. Imports include
ammonia, bauxite, bunker fuel, caustic soda, copper slag, gypsum, LPG, liquid pitch,
magnetite, petcoke and petroleum products. Exports include alumina, aluminium, ammonium
nitrate, calcite, cement, cement clinker, coal, cotton seed, fly ash, ilmenite, limestone,
magnesia, magnesite and scrap metal.
LOCATION:
On the NE coast of Queensland, 450 km., NNW of Brisbane.
CHARTS:
AUS Charts No. 244, 245, 246, 271, 272, 490 and 819.
Publications:
BA Australia Pilot Vol. 3, NP 15.
PORT LIMITS:
Gladstone pilotage area bounded by a line connecting the following positions:
- 23° 42.91′ S, 151° 17.66′ E (Connor Bluff)
- 23° 49.51′ S, 151° 34.66′ E
- 23° 56.51′ S, 151° 34.66′ E
- 23° 59.43′ S, 151° 26.43′ E (Tiber Point)
- 23° 59.43′ S, 151° 25.72′…
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