Port of Newcastle

The visualisations show imports and exports in tonnes at the Port of Newcastle as well as type of vessels using the port.

The Port of Newcastle is the largest bulk shipping port on Australia’s east coast and Australia’s largest terminal for coal exports.

About the data

Dataset name: Port of Newcastle
Data owner: Port of Newcastle
Operator Coverage: Port of Newcastle
Date range: January 2018 onwards
Frequency: Monthly

Data: To access the data, please click here

Description: This visualisation displays Port of Newcastle monthly export and import volumes in tonnages and the number of monthly vessel arrivals. The data is provided by Port of Newcastle who calculate the monthly throughput export and import volumes.

Definitions

Commodity Exports	Definition
Concentrates	Copper ore concentrates, zinc ore concentrates and lead ore concentrates.
Machinery, Project Cargo & Vehicles	Mining machinery, agricultural machinery, power generation machinery, construction machinery, rail wagons, passenger vehicles and commercial vehicles.
Meals & Grains	Barley, sorghum, canola, maize, canola meal and cottonseed meal.
Pitch & Tar Products	Pitch, coal tar, tar, carbon black and creosote.
Other Trade	Ammonia, ammonium nitrate, animal foods, coke products, scrap steel, vegetable oils and miscellaneous general cargo.
Commodity Imports	Definition
Fertiliser	Superphosphate, sulphate of ammonia, potash, urea, phosphates and other general manufactured fertilisers.
Machinery, Project Cargo & Vehicles	Industrial machinery, power generation machinery, construction machinery, rail wagons, passenger vehicles and commercial vehicles.
Meals & Grains	Soybean meal.
Pitch & Tar Products	Pitch, coal tar and carbon black.
Other Trade	Ammonia, ammonium nitrate, construction materials, magnetite, timber, tinplate, boats, vegetable oils and miscellaneous general cargo.

Trade Export Destinations

Commodity Exports	Destination(s)
Aluminium	Japan, Korea
Coal	Australia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, New Caledonia, Taiwan
Concentrates	China, Japan, Philippines
Machinery, Project Cargo & Vehicles	Indonesia, Papua New Guinea
Meals & Grains	China
Pitch & Tar Products	Japan, Taiwan
Steel	Indonesia, New Zealand
Wheat	Egypt