Bolte Bridge, Victoria Harbour, City of Melbourne

This is one of four cameras located at the the shipping center for the Port of Melbourne. South Wharf is in the foreground. The Port of Melbourne is Australia’s largest container and general cargo port, handling 39% of the nation’s container trade.

Cam 1 (Downstream Yarra River to West Gate Bridge)
Cam 2 (Yarra River and Maribynong River junction)
Cam 3 (Swanson Dock)
Cam 4 (Bolte Bridge, Victoria Dock and views of Melbourne)

Forty-two container shipping lines, as well as a number of other general cargo carriers, make around 3200 ship calls a year to Melbourne, providing services to ports in all major parts of the world.

The port is at the north of Port Phillip Bay. It is serviced by more than 100 nautical miles of shipping channels and fairways between the Port Phillip Heads and the berths on the Yarra River, at Williamstown and Station Pier, Port Melbourne.