This report presents the national and port level forecasts of container and ship movements through Australian ports over the next twenty years.

• Container and Ship Movements Through Australian Ports 2004–05 to 2024–25
  
  wp_065.pdf
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Australian maritime trade: 2000–01 to 2004–05 extends data available through the BTRE's Australian Sea Freight publications by including information on markets, shipping lanes, key trade routes, traded commodities and passenger services associated with Australia's maritime trade.

• Australian maritime trade 2000–01 to 2004–05
  
  wp_069.pdf
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Statistics on the movement of Australian freight by sea, information on port activity, fleet structure and use of coastal permits. This edition focuses on sea freight activity around Australia during 2004–05.

This edition of Waterline includes an article on the Maritime Crew visa which started on 1 July 2007.

Waterline 42 also incorporates a new section which will be ongoing, in the same way as the other sections of Waterline which deal with wharf side indicators of productivity. This new section deals with landside performance indicators, which include containers per truck, average container turnaround time as well as truck turnaround time. It also includes landside of container terminal task indicators, such as total containers by road, teus by road and total trucks processed. Some charts also show total containers by rail. The new section commences with the September and December quarters 2006.

• Waterline No 42
  
  water_042.pdf
  (2.27 MB)

This report presents the results of BTRE's tenth annual review of the Bass Strait Passenger Vehicle Equalisation Scheme. It covers the operation and impact of the Scheme up to and including 2005–06.

The Excel file below contains tables showing the value and weight of Australian international imports and exports each quarter, by sea freight (liner and non-liner) and by air. The time series covers the period from 3rd quarter 1984 to the 1st quarter 2007.

The Bureau of Transport and Regional Economics has taken due care in preparing the analyses contained in these tables. However, noting that data used for the analyses have been provided by third parties, the Commonwealth gives no warranty to the accuracy, reliability, fitness for purpose, or otherwise of the information.

• International Freight to/from Australia
  
  
  stats_001.xls
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Statistics on the movement of Australian freight by sea, information on port activity, fleet structure and use of coastal permits. This edition focuses on sea freight activity around Australia during 2005–06.

Waterline reports on trends in container handling productivity on the waterfront in Australia as well as the cost of importing and exporting containers. It covers both the unloading of container ships and the transport of containers from container terminals.

• Waterline No 43
  
  water_043.pdf
  (1.05 MB)
• Container terminal performance in containers per hour
  
  
  water_043_Container_terminal_performance_in_containers_per_hour.xls
  (41 KB)
• Container terminal performance in teus per hour
  
  
  water_043_Container_terminal_performance_in_teus_per_hour.xls
  (28 KB)
• Port performance non financial
  
  
  water_043_Port_performance_non_financial.xls
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Australian Transport Statistics provides a short summary of a diverse range of transport statistics. Topics include employment, GDP, passenger and freight movements, trade, funding, motor vehicles, fatalities and estimated greenhouse gas emissions attributed to the transport industry. Information is provided for the road, rail, maritime and aviation sectors. Data are gathered from various sources both within BTRE and external organisations.

• Australian Transport Statistics Yearbook 2007
  
  stats_018.pdf
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• Australian Transport Statistics Yearbook 2007–Spreadsheets
  
  
  stats_018.zip
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Statistics on the movement of Australian freight by sea, information on port activity, fleet structure and use of coastal permits. This edition focuses on sea freight activity around Australia during 2006–07.