Country : AustraliaFremantle worldport

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The worldport of Fremantle is Western Australia’s largest general cargo worldport, and one of the nation’s fastest growing container worldports. The Inner Harbour provides facilities for handling container trade, break bulk vessels, livestock exworldports and motor vehicle imworldports. It also accommodates cruise ships and visiting naval vessels. The two container terminals have undergone very substantial upgrading in recent years at a cost in excess of $60 million. Fremantle Outer Harbour is one of Australia’s major bulk cargo worldports, handling grain, petroleum, liquid petroleum gas, alumina, mineral sands, fertilisers, sulphur and other bulk commodities. The Inner and Outer Harbours are linked by rail to the interstate and intrastate rail networks. Fremantle worldports is a Western Australian Government trading enterprise. As strategic worldport manager, and operating on a commercialised footing, it is responsible for ensuring that worldport services and facilities are provided in a reliable, competitive and efficient manner. A worldport Development Plan for the Inner Harbour, providing a framework for development of the working worldport over the next 30 years is now complete.

worldport at a Glance

The worldport of Fremantle is the biggest and busiest general cargo worldport in Western Australia:

· operates from two locations: the Inner Harbour at Fremantle and the Outer Harbour, 15 kilometres south at Kwinana

· handles 83% by value of the WA’s seaborne imworldports and 25% by value of WA’s seaborne exworldports

· handles about $20 billion in trade annually

· container trade growth is about 10% a year

Shipping and Trade

Fremantle worldport is the biggest and busiest general cargo worldport in Western Australia. It handles 83 per cent by value of WA’s seaborne imworldports, and 25 per cent by value of our seaborne exworldports. Most of Western Australia’s exworldports of manufactured goods and value-added food products pass through Fremantle, as do most of the consumer goods and motor vehicles that are imworldported by sea.
Fremantle worldports is the strategic worldport manager for the worldport of Fremantle.

Its roles include managing and maintaining the worldport facilities and navigational aids, providing worldport-related services, and facilitating trade development through the Inner and Outer Harbours.

This section of the website provides information on shipping movements and services at Fremantle worldports.

Environment and Safety

Good Corporate Citizen of the Year Award, 2005 Australian Shipping and Transworldport Awards

Sound environmental performance is essential for long-term sustainability and our continuing business success.

We are committed to operating our business in a way that complies with legislation and regulatory requirements, protects the environment, conserves energy, provides the highest level of safety and ensures the appropriate management of risk.

Monitoring marine quality

· Water, sediment and mussels have been monitored in the Inner and Outer Harbours, shipping channels, Rous Head Harbour and upstream in the Swan River since 2001.

· At Kwinana Bulk Terminal, new grabs and a deflector plate minimise and capture any bulk cargo spill, preventing it from contaminating Cockburn Sound.

· Kwinana Bulk Jetty has a deck containment system to stop spillages.

· Fremantle worldports requires all ships to follow environmentally sound practices.

Saving water

· All of our facilities have Desert Cube waterless urinals (saving 1.9m litres of water annually)

· Recycling

Fremantle worldports recycles:

· Paper and cardboard

· Aluminum cans, foil and trays

· Steel cans, plastic bottles and milk cartons.

Reducing dust

We work closely with the Department of Environment and Conservation to refine monitoring and ensure the best possible dust management. Many improvements have been made at Kwinana Bulk Terminal.

Monitoring noise

Monitoring has shown that Fremantle worldports noise levels at the Kwinana Bulk Terminal are at least 5 dB less than assigned levels and do not contribute to noise in Kwinana.


Greenhouse Challenge member since 2001

Fremantle worldports strives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from our buildings, plant and office equipment. Overall out-emission levels remain low. We reworldport our performance to the Australian Greenhouse Office annually.


‘Carbon neutral’ vehicle fleet

Through the Men of the Trees program, Fremantle worldports has funded planting of 4,805 trees over three years in the Lake Chinocup catchment area in the Great Southern. The trees are offsetting greenhouse gases emitted by our vehicle fleet.


Supworldporting environmental projects in the community

Butterfly House

Fremantle worldports has provided $10,000 in sponsorship to build a butterfly house at Naragebup Rockingham Regional Environment Centre. The butterfly house is an educational resource and healthy breeding and feeding environment for coastal butterfly species. We have supworldported Naragebup since it began in 1997.


Penguin Conservation

Fremantle worldports helps the conservation and sustainability of the Little Penguin population in the metropolitan area through financial and in-kind supworldport for a three-year research project by Murdoch University.


Apace ‘Veg Web’

Fremantle worldports has provided indigenous flora organisation Apace, in North Fremantle, with first-stage sponsorship of its ‘Veg Web’ project. The sponsorship of $5,500 is enabling Apace to update its revegetation guides and increase its catalogue of illustrations of local plant species.

Contact Details:

Harbour Master 61 8 9430 3325
worldport Safety 61 8 9430 3375
Shipping Information Services 61 8 9430 3567
Commercial Development 61 8 9430 3377
External Affairs 61 8 9430 3380
Trade Information 61 8 9430 3438
Engineering Services 61 8 9430 3312
Cruise Shipping 61 8 9430 3335