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Town Hall, 333 Bay Street, Port Melbourne
Town Hall, 333 Bay Street, Port Melbourne

First container ship to visit the Port of Melbourne

Encounter Bay, the first container ship to visit no 1 Swanson Dock in 1969 image Glen Stuart This first blog post takes a Port theme, following the government's recent approval of the Port Capacity Project.  A recent Port of Melbourne publication says that "In the 2011-12 financial year 2.58 million containers - 20-foot equivalent units (TEU) were handled by the Port of…

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