MACKAY

Australian professional port. Located near the town of Mackay in northeastern Queensland, there are two major ports for exporting sugar grains and coal distributed about 3 nautical miles from the town. It is a specialized port mainly focused on sugar exports. The port area is formed by two breakwaters that stretch from the north to the south of the land coast, and ships enter the port from the east; There is a protruding embankment extending eastward from the southern end of the land coast in the port. There are 198 meter long berths in the north and south of the embankment, with front water depths of 10.3 and 10.6 meters respectively. The warehouse on the dock can store 727000 tons of loose sugar, and the efficiency of the loose sugar machinery on the dock is 1400 tons per hour; There is also a 198 meter long and 10.6-meter-long sugar syrup export berth on the inner side of the south pier. The dock is equipped with sugar syrup storage tanks and has a loading speed of 300 tons per hour. The dock is also used for alcohol export and petroleum product import; In addition, there is a container berth with a length of 183 meters and a water depth of 10.1 meters northwest of the San Tang Tudi; There is also a loose grain export berth at the base of the breakwater in the northwest of the port area. The coal export dedicated port area in the southeast of the town is called HAY POINT, which is about 8 nautical miles away from the town. It has an inverted "L" - shaped protruding embankment extending northeast from the land bank of the cape. There are two coal export berths with a water depth of 17 meters each, which can accommodate ships of 100000-150000 tons each. There are two coal loading machines with an efficiency of 4000 tons and 6000 tons per hour on the dock, and the annual throughput capacity is over 30 million tons. The port was built in 1976. Later, a "T" - shaped protruding embankment was built on the north land bank of the cape. The wharf is 3850 meters long, and there are two 200000 ton berths at the top with a water depth of 20 meters. The efficiency of the belt conveyor on the dock is 6600 tons/hour.