Morning Briefing — Saturday 1 August 2026

🌊 Tides — Breakwater Pier, Port Melbourne

Current: 0.72m ↑ Rising

HW

3:58am

0.85m

LW

10:47am

0.30m

HW

5:28pm

0.96m

LW

11:37pm

0.49m

Live gauges: Breakwater Pier · Hovell Pile · Webb Dock · South Wharf · Melbourne VTS · Fawkner Beacon · Queenscliff

☀️ Sun

🌄

7:19am

Sunrise

🌇

5:34pm

Sunset

🌤️ Weather — Melbourne

ConditionsMostly sunny with patchy morning fog
TemperatureMin 3°C / Max 16°C
Rain Chance0%
WindNortherly 15–25 km/h
UV Index2 — Low

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

Vessel	Type	Wharf	Scheduled (VicPorts)	Live Status (MarineTraffic)	Track
Cosco Philippines (BM)	DEP	Swanson East 3	5:00am	Container Ship	🔗 Track
Victorian Reliance II	ARR	Webb Dock 1 East	5:15am	Ro-Ro Cargo	🔗 Track
AAL Shanghai (SC)	ARR	Webb Dock 1 West	5:30am	General Cargo / Heavy Lift	🔗 Track
Searoad Mersey II	ARR	Webb Dock 2 East	5:30am	Ro-Ro Cargo	🔗 Track
MSC Jessenia R (SC)	DEP	Webb Dock 5 East	6:00am	Container Ship	🔗 Track
Progress Ace	DEP	Webb Dock 2 West	7:00am	Vehicles Carrier	🔗 Track
Spirit of Auckland	ARR	Swanson West 1	7:00am	Container Ship	🔗 Track
Viking Passama	ARR	Webb Dock 2 West	7:30am	Vehicles Carrier	🔗 Track
Como Glory	DEP	South Wharf 26	9:30am	Bulk Carrier	🔗 Track
Seasmile (PP)	ARR	Webb Dock 5 East	9:45am	Container Ship	🔗 Track
Chesapeake Highway	ARR	Webb Dock 1 West	10:30am	Vehicles Carrier	🔗 Track
MSC Star R (SC)	ARR	Bay Anchorage Outer	11:30am	Container Ship	🔗 Track
Xing Tong 799 (T)	ARR	Bay Anchorage Outer	11:30am	Oil/Chemical Tanker	🔗 Track
Hafnia Lioness (T)	DEP	Holden Dock	12:00pm	Oil/Chemical Tanker	🔗 Track
Maersk Fukuoka (PP)	ARR	Swanson East 2	12:15pm	Container Ship	🔗 Track
Federal Passion	DEP	Bulk Grain 3	12:30pm	Bulk Carrier	🔗 Track
Magdalena Schulte (SC)	ARR	Bay Anchorage Outer	1:00pm	Container Ship	🔗 Track
Artemis I (SC)	ARR	Appleton Dock F	3:15pm	Bulk Carrier	🔗 Track
Victorian Reliance II	DEP	Webb Dock 1 East	5:55pm	Ro-Ro Cargo	🔗 Track
Nordtigris	DEP	Bay Anchorage inner	6:00pm	Bulk Carrier	🔗 Track
Searoad Mersey II	DEP	Webb Dock 2 East	6:10pm	Ro-Ro Cargo	🔗 Track

🚗 Traffic — Major Melbourne Roads

M1 West Gate / Princes Fwy (→ Geelong)

⚙ ITS works CityLink–WGT: 1 lane wknd daytime, 3 lanes overnight — until 30 Sep

Eastern Freeway / NELP

⚙ NELP works: multiple lane closures overnight (Kew East–Nunawading) — until 31 Dec

M2 CityLink (Burnley Tunnel)

⚙ Entry ramp closed overnight 9pm–5am — until 30 Aug

M2 CityLink / Tullamarine

⚙ Maintenance: 2 lanes westbound wkday 9:30am–3:30pm — until 30 Sep

M1 Monash Freeway (CityLink ITS)

⚙ ITS works Hawthorn–Toorak: 1 lane daytime, 3 lanes overnight — until 30 Sep

Monash Freeway (Burke Rd)

⚙ Maintenance lane closures 7am–5pm and overnight — until 30 Nov

M80 Ring Road

⚙ Ring Road Completion — Greensborough overnight lane closures — until Dec 2026

Calder Freeway

⚙ ITS: Keilor East outbound lane 9:30am–3:30pm wkdays, 7am–5pm wknds — until 31 Aug

Frankston Freeway

⚙ ITS works McMahons Rd: overnight lanes — until 30 Sep

⛈️ BOM Weather Alerts

Strong Wind Warning — West Coast (Sunday 2 Aug) · Issued 4:10am 1 Aug

Severe Frost Warning — North East VIC (down to -3°C, significant crop damage risk)

Frost Warning — Mallee, Wimmera, Northern Country, North Central, South West, Central, W&S Gippsland, East Gippsland

⚠️ WorkSafe / AMSA Incidents

No new incidents today

Worker dies after boat yard explosion

WorkSafe VIC · 30 Jul 2026 (reported yesterday)

$400,000 fine after Kew Rec Centre collapse