🌅 Morning Briefing

Thursday, 7 May 2026  ·  Updated 5:00am  ·  Port of Melbourne

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

🌊 Tides — Breakwater Pier, Port Melbourne

Now: 0.61m  ·  ↑ Rising

High
5:27am
0.93m
Low
12:27pm
0.28m
High
7:21pm
1.01m
Low
1:03am
0.56m
Breakwater Pier Webb Dock South Wharf Hovell Pile Melbourne VTS

☀️ Sun — Melbourne

🌄
7:05am
Sunrise
🌇
5:28pm
Sunset

Day length: 10h 23m

🌧️ Weather — Melbourne

Source: WillyWeather

⛈️ BOM Weather Alerts

⚠️ Gale Warning — Port Phillip & Central, Central Gippsland & East Gippsland coasts · Strong Wind Warning — Western Port & West Coast (issued 4:10am)
⚠️ Sheep Graziers Warning — South West, Central, W & S Gippsland & East Gippsland districts (issued 3:33am)

Source: WeatherZone / BOM

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

Vessel Type Wharf Scheduled (VicPorts) Destination/Origin Track
Golden Creation DEP Bay Anchorage Outer 7:00am Fremantle 🔗 Live
Morning Margareta DEP Bay Anchorage Outer 8:00am Auckland 🔗 Live
MSC Altamira DEP Webb Dock 4 East 8:00am Adelaide 🔗 Live
Ting Jiang Kou DEP Bay Anchorage Outer 8:30am Adelaide 🔗 Live
HMM Paramount ARR Webb Dock 4 East 1:30pm Botany Bay 🔗 Live
Victorian Reliance II DEP Webb Dock 1 East 5:55pm Burnie 🔗 Live
MSC Jessenia R DEP Webb Dock 5 East 6:00pm Brisbane 🔗 Live
Searoad Mersey II 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
M1 West Gate / Princes Fwy · Monash Freeway · CityLink · M80 Ring Road · EastLink · Calder · Frankston Fwy
✓ All clear

Source: VicTraffic (traffic.transport.vic.gov.au) · Refreshed 4:47am

⚠️ WorkSafe / AMSA Incidents

Young worker killed in warehouse incident — Lara
WorkSafe VIC · 5 May 2026
AMSA cracks down on seafarer exploitation, bans vessel six months
AMSA · 9 Apr 2026
AMSA urges boaters to register EPIRBs and plan their trip
AMSA · 13 Apr 2026

⚠️ Notices to Mariners — Port of Melbourne 28 active

NtM No. Notice
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(T)-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