🌅 Morning Briefing

Wednesday, 29 April 2026  ·  Updated 5:00am  ·  Port of Melbourne

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🌊 Tides — Breakwater Pier, Port Melbourne

Current 0.80m ▼ Falling
Low
6:45am
0.42m
High
12:51pm
0.83m
Low
6:51pm
0.49m
High
12:48am‡
0.89m
Low
7:51am‡
0.36m
‡ next day
Breakwater Pier Hovell Pile Webb Dock South Wharf Melbourne VTS
🌡️ Bay Water Temps (unavailable — site unreachable)
🌡️ Bay Water Temps — baywx.com.au

☀️ Sun

🌄
6:57am
Sunrise
🌇
5:37pm
Sunset

🚢 Ship Movements — Port of Melbourne (5am–7pm)

Vessel Type Wharf Scheduled (VicPorts) Vessel Type Track
Spirit of Melbourne DEP Swanson West 1 11:30am Container Ship 🔗
ANL Rotorua ARR Swanson West 1 12:30pm Container Ship 🔗
Hansa Sealancer DEP Bay Anchorage Outer 2:00pm Oil Products Tanker 🔗
MTM New Orleans DEP Maribyrnong 1 3:00pm Oil/Chemical Tanker 🔗
Asteria Leader DEP Webb Dock 1 West 4:00pm Vehicles Carrier 🔗
Tasmanian Achiever 2 DEP Webb Dock 1 East 5:55pm Ro-Ro Cargo 🔗
Liekut DEP Webb Dock 2 East 6:10pm Ro-Ro Cargo 🔗
Nord Ventura ARR Holden Dock 6:30pm Oil/Chemical Tanker 🔗
CL Zhaoge DEP Holden Dock 7:00pm Oil/Chemical Tanker 🔗
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All Ships Webb Dock Swanson Station Pier Bay Anchorage

🚗 Traffic — Major Melbourne Roads

M1 Monash Freeway
Roadworks — Ferntree Gully Rd on-ramp inbound (Glen Waverley) — 1 lane blocked, scheduled until June 2026
M1 West Gate / Princes, Eastern, M2 CityLink, M80, EastLink, Calder, Frankston
✓ All clear

⛈️ BOM Weather Alerts

No active warnings for Victoria
Checked via BOM API — no disruptions reported

⚠️ WorkSafe / AMSA Incidents

No new incidents today
No new WorkSafe VIC or AMSA reports since last briefing
Previous:
Builder fined over worker's fatal fall
WorkSafe VIC · 22 April 2026

🌦️ Weather — Melbourne

Partly Cloudy — Shower or Two Possible
Min 13°C, max 23°C. Light winds 5–7 km/h. Rain chance 25%. UV low-moderate (index 3).
MIN
13°C
MAX
23°C
RAIN
25%
WIND
Light
5–7 km/h
UV
Low-Mod
3

⚠️ Notices to Mariners — Port of Melbourne 32 active 2 new

NtM No. Notice
249(T)-2026 🆕 Port of Melbourne - Port Phillip - Large fender reported TEMP
248(T)-2026 🆕 Port of Melbourne - Port Phillip - Search and rescue training TEMP
246(T)-2026 Port of Melbourne - Appleton Dock - Chainage restriction due to works TEMP
242(T)-2026 Port of Melbourne - Port Phillip - Hume Tower works completed TEMP
241(T)-2026 Port of Melbourne - Port Phillip - Scientific Equipment TEMP
240-2026 Port of Melbourne - Port Phillip - Special mark buoys V3 & V4
239(T)-2026 Port of Melbourne - Swanson Dock Berth 1 West - Berth works TEMP
232(T)-2026 Port of Melbourne - Change to depths TEMP
231-2026 Port of Melbourne - Port Phillip - Special mark buoy V2
213-2026 Port of Melbourne - Port Phillip - Wreck
171(T)-2026 Port of Melbourne - Port Melbourne Channel - Submarine gas pipeline inspection TEMP
164(T)-2026 Port of Melbourne - South Channel - Reduced DUKC node width TEMP
114(T)-2026 Port of Melbourne - South Wharf 26 and 27 - Remediation works TEMP
073-2026 Port of Melbourne - Vessel reporting requirements
646-2025 Port of Melbourne - Port Information Guide Edition 6
614(T)-2025 Port of Melbourne - Ann Street Pier - Pile remediation works TEMP
575(T)-2025 Port of Melbourne - Gellibrand Pier - Pile remediation works TEMP
556(T)-2025 Port of Melbourne - South Wharf 32 - Remediation works TEMP
542(T)-2025 Port of Melbourne - Yarraville 5 berth remediation works TEMP
470(T)-2025 Port of Melbourne - Yarraville 6 berth remediation works TEMP
445(T)-2025 Port of Melbourne - Swanson Dock West Berth 3 remediation works TEMP
379(T)-2025 Port of Melbourne & Geelong - Port Phillip Bay - Survey and sampling works TEMP
— Port of Melbourne - Station Pier - Pile driving and rehabilitation works
— Port of Melbourne - Towage requirements
— Port of Melbourne - HMD 3.12.3 and 3.16.17
— Port of Melbourne - Short Road Wharf - Remediation works
— Port of Melbourne - Williamstown Channel - Port Phillip Ferries
— Port of Melbourne - Webb Dock 2 East berth - Remediation works extended
— Port of Melbourne - Navigational controls for cruise shipping at Station Pier
— Port of Melbourne - Appleton Dock - Pile driving, remediation and removal works
— Port of Melbourne / Yarra River - Shell Bunker Berth temporary light
408(T)-21 Port of Melbourne - Webb Dock - Operational Instruction in force trial for oversize container vessels TEMP
📋 All Notices to Mariners — Ports Victoria