🌅 Morning Briefing

Friday, 8 May 2026  ·  Updated 5:00am  ·  Port of Melbourne

📅 Archive 📆 All Ships (ICS) 📆 Webb Dock 📆 Swanson Dock 📊 Excel

🌊 Tides — Breakwater Pier, Port Melbourne

Now: 0.57m  ·  ↑ Rising

High
6:03am
0.92m
Low
1:00pm
0.29m
High
7:48pm
0.99m
Low
1:39am
0.56m
Breakwater Pier Webb Dock South Wharf Hovell Pile Melbourne VTS

☀️ Sun — Melbourne

🌄
7:07am
Sunrise
🌇
5:26pm
Sunset

Day length: 10h 19m

🌧️ Weather — Melbourne

Source: WillyWeather

⛈️ BOM Weather Alerts

⚠️ Severe Weather Warning — Central, East Gippsland, North Central, North East, West & South Gippsland forecast districts
⚠️ Marine Wind Warning — Victoria coastal waters

Source: WeatherZone / BOM

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

Vessel Type Wharf Scheduled (VicPorts) Destination/Origin Track
Chilean Bulker DEP Appleton Dock D 6:00am Adelaide 🔗 Live
Gravity Highway DEP Webb Dock 3 West 8:00am Adelaide 🔗 Live
Goliath ARR South Wharf 27 10:30am Devonport 🔗 Live
CSL Reliance DEP Yarraville 5 12:00pm Thevenard 🔗 Live
Maersk Inverness ARR Swanson West 1 12:30pm Botany Bay 🔗 Live
Uni Bulker DEP Lascelles 2 12:30pm TBA 🔗 Live
Unity Light ARR Lascelles 2 3:00pm Newcastle 🔗 Live
OOCL Shanghai DEP Swanson West 2 3:00pm Yokohama 🔗 Live
Tasmanian Achiever 2 DEP Webb Dock 1 East 5:55pm Burnie 🔗 Live
Capricornus Leader DEP Webb Dock 1 West 6:00pm Nagoya 🔗 Live
Liekut DEP Webb Dock 2 East 6:10pm Devonport 🔗 Live

Source: VicPorts ship movements schedule · Filtered: Port of Melbourne 5am–7pm

🚗 Traffic — Major Melbourne Roads

Eastern Freeway (M3) (North East Link Project)
🔧 Planned roadworks — lane closures both directions between Hoddle St & Springvale Rd
M2 CityLink (Tullamarine / Burnley Tunnel) (tonight from 7–9pm)
🔧 Overnight closures tonight — Tullamarine (9pm–5am), Burnley Tunnel (7pm–5am), Kings Way on-ramp NEW (8–21 May)
M1 West Gate / Princes Fwy · Monash Freeway · M80 Ring Road · EastLink · Calder · Frankston Fwy
✓ All clear

Source: VicTraffic (traffic.transport.vic.gov.au) · Refreshed 5:00am

⚠️ WorkSafe / AMSA Incidents

Man to repay more than $117,000 for chilli sauce fraud
WorkSafe VIC · 7 May 2026
Young worker killed in warehouse incident — Lara
WorkSafe VIC · 5 May 2026
AMSA urges boaters to register EPIRBs and plan their trip
AMSA · 13 Apr 2026

⚠️ Notices to Mariners — Port of Melbourne 29 active

NtM No. Notice
261-2026 Port of Melbourne - HMD 3.16.17
257-2026 Port of Melbourne - Port Phillip - Wreck
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
241(T)-2026 Port of Melbourne - Port Phillip - Scientific Equipment TEMP
239(T)-2026 Port of Melbourne - Swanson Dock Berth 1 West - Berth works TEMP
232(T)-2026 Port of Melbourne - Change to depths TEMP
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
242(T)-2025 Port of Melbourne - Station Pier - Pile driving and rehabilitation works
148(T)-2025 Port of Melbourne - Towage requirements
136-2025 Port of Melbourne - HMD 3.12.3 and 3.16.17
114(T)-2025 Port of Melbourne - Short Road Wharf - Remediation works
463(T)-2024 Port of Melbourne - Williamstown Channel - Port Phillip Ferries
405(T)-2024 Port of Melbourne - Webb Dock 2 East berth - Remediation works extended
391(T)-2024 Port of Melbourne - Navigational controls for cruise shipping at Station Pier
299(T)-2024 Port of Melbourne - Appleton Dock - Pile driving, remediation and removal works
534(T)-2023 Port of Melbourne / Yarra River - Shell Bunker Berth temporary light
📋 All Notices to Mariners — Ports Victoria