Port of Geelong - Facilities

Facilities

Major piers in the Port of Geelong include:

• Cunningham Pier: opened as the Railway Pier in the mid-1850s. Disused by the 1980s, formerly occupied by a Smorgy's restaurant. Currently it is used as a social venus called 'The Pier'.
• Moorabool Street Wharf: located at the end of the street of the same name. Main terminal for bay cruises until demolished in the 1950s.
• Yarra Street Pier. Destroyed by fire in 1988 and mostly removed, but has seen a number of rebuilding proposals since.

By the early 1900s shipping traffic has increased and the existing piers in the city area were inadequate. As a result new port developments were started in the North Geelong area.

• Corio Quay. Construction started in the 1900s, and the wharfs are still in use today for woodchip and bulk cargoes.
• Grain Pier. Built to export grain from the adjacent grain elevators in 1937. Replaced by a newer pier to the north in the 1990s.
• Lascelles Wharf. Caters for general cargo, as well as minerals and fertiliser for the adjacent phosphate works.
• Refinery Pier. Opened by Shell in 1953 to cater for their nearby oil refinery.

There are also a number of special purpose piers on Corio Bay:

• Point Henry Pier. Established by Alcoa at Point Henry for alumina ore imports for their Point Henry smelter
• Point Wilson Pier. Established for the import of explosives that are then stored at the adjacent reserve.