The Race To Fix The World's Most Isolated Mega-Port

[@martythemartian99]

One of the biggest problems with freight rail is single track on nearly all main lines. This means trains are constantly stopping to allow another train to pass in the opposite direction. Too often our politicians just make the "Australia is too big" excuse instead of just slowly and regularly extending dual track to greatly increase efficiency.

[@roseduste80]

Or actively decommissioning rail lines, like the one along the Mallee Hwy, because "it's expensive." So all the extra truck traffic has ruined the road, which is more expensive to maintain than rail.

[@martythemartian99]

@@roseduste80 Pity people don't realise that better rail, means better roads.👍

[@damfadd]

​@@martythemartian99yeah so narrow minded

[@king-pn4bj]

Hopefully the Inland Rail Project can remedy some of this. I've already seen some duplication projects in regional areas.

[@captain61games49]

many tracks have even been abandoned is so disappointing

[@offbeatwanders]

As a Melbournian who has an interest in infrastructure and rail I can't believe this is the first time I'm hearing about this and it's already completed. I don't think this has shown up in any of the local news here over the past few years. I guess it's not a 'sexy' piece of infrastructure that politicians can stand in front of on hi vis and cut a big ribbon with oversized scissors but this is huge for my city, state and country. Wow 😮 Thanks for keeping me informed, really enjoyed this and all your other vids 😊

[@smalltime0]

You've probably heard about the tunnelling and the removal of level crossings, which is part of the project too.

[@offbeatwanders]

@smalltime0 ah I didn't realise

[@iwx2672]

The Port is Chinese owned so

[@offbeatwanders]

@@iwx2672 20% of it sure... Either way not sure how that's relevant to this video?

[@paulh-h9w]

@@iwx2672 Leased not owned. And by a consortium with local groups, not just Chinese. www.futurefund.gov.au/news-room/2016/09/19/port-of-melbourne-announcement

[@hrcnhntr613]

Congrats to Tony, Nat, Jim, Rhonda, and the whole NBA team for finally getting a project done!

[@w2ttsy670]

Oh man I remember that part of the series. Tony trying to pitch the intermodal freight facility and getting shot down because it wasn’t as sexy as high speed rail.

[@FranktheTank-bk8me]

🤣🤣🤣

[@timconnors]

Ooh I doubt Jim and Rhonda had anything to do with making it happen!

[@anarfox]

I knew I wasn't the only one thinking of this. 😂

[@Talenin2014]

@@timconnors they announced it and had a launch! And Kharsten did a website.

[@vincem5]

i live a km or 2 away from all this and knew nothing of this construction project. its all about the east west tunnel project. thanks for highlighting this!!

[@ncard00]

They just need to electrify the railways with overhead wires, since electric trains are much more powerful and faster, and upgrade to 4 tracks on all mainlines.

[@longy6612]

Yep live in Melbourne to and had no idea about it either 😅

[@InjectTheWaste]

Its all sort of rolled in to the "Vic big Build" The Footscray Road Upgrade with Bike overpass and separation of trucks and cars is all under that banner. But this is a big step.

[@TheMelbournelad]

Yeah it’s kinda stealth due to the tunnel works. If ever went to Costco you really saw most of the work across the road, and the interconnection from trains going between Footscray and southern cross

[@rohanpinda3557]

My thoughts exactly! Melbourne born and breed (and work in construction) what an amazing project I’ve never heard of! Takes a international KZbin channel to inform me of major local projects in my own back yard lol

[@leighchamberlain25]

12 weeks to put all that into official plans 😮 Why does it take my council 2 years to approve a fence... 😢

[@Metallica4Life92]

Money!

[@overworlder]

haha I was going to say why did a major project have to be rushed like that

[@bmunson4920]

Because there are huge differences between what you are anecdotally relaying on your fence, and what the port wanted to do with land that is already zoned correctly. Everything from the machinery behind it (how many lawyers did you engage for approval, did you pre-consult before application, etc.) to the number of jobs created.

[@neondemon5137]

You're not a billionaire.

[@antontsau]

. Westconnex was being approved for 4 years with huge stink, court hearings and so on.

[@danielt1949]

For anyone interested, the project at 5:34 at Swanson Dock was a different project meant to replace the deck for Swanson Dock West 1. As apart of the project, the largest land based piling rig in the southern hemisphere was mobilized to site to to drive 46m long piles in a single length!

[@damfadd]

Wow didn't know that thanks

[@planetdisco4821]

Well that explains all the massive whumping noises that kept waking me up during the day when I was working night shift last year… I live in port Melbourne not far from Webb Dock…

[@k0mm4nd3r_k3n]

46m is bonkers cool

[@Laughable000]

Driving through Coode Island Silt I presume?

[@assasinman98]

All while welding, grouting and generally repairing everything under the wharf in waist deep water. A really cool project all round!

[@Sagealeena]

Glad this is finished, we need more rail freight in Victoria! Lots of work still to do with building new connections, maintaining track, and allowing freight trains on at all times of day. I live next to the freeway and a train line which lead to the Port of Melbourne, and I’ll be glad of the day when I hear more freight going past on trains than on trucks!

[@MbisonBalrog]

Melbourne not enough people support that

[@damfadd]

​@@MbisonBalroggetting trucks off roads ...I think there is so much support that they are building roads and tunnels to the port just to take trucks away from residential areas and put them straight into the port ...whish B1M had some more on the new tunnels and roads

[@MbisonBalrog]

@@damfadd then how deliver to customers? Dies in errbody live on the shore and have a dock?

[@damfadd]

@@MbisonBalrog ru drunk ?....they distribute containers from the port to warehouses and shopping precincts and then get the goods to store from there ... mostly from distro points tho!

[@MbisonBalrog]

@ so still trucks on road. No need for huge port

[@Kombatwombat]

Thanks for covering this. Logistics is really underappreciated in Australia and our local media hasn't covered this project at all.

[@artistjoh]

I love that Australia is building so many large scale infrastructure projects. They will drive the economy of the next century. Countries benefit from this sort of large scale, and long term thinking. Freight rail might not be sexy and attention getting, but it has huge significance.

[@jonahsrailwaychannel8958]

Thank you for posting this video B1M! As someone who regularly takes photos at the docks, often when a ship or train arrives into Victoria Dock, there’s often upwards of 50 trucks all lined up along the roads awaiting container pickups. A good example of lack of space in the docks, Aurizon could not fit their train at Victoria Dock, so they moved out to North Dynon so they could fit the entire train in the yard without splitting it.

[@damianwright3690]

It's been such an issue that there has been for years a literal *booking system* for trucks to arrive at the port for pickup or drop-off, with rules like not turning up more than half an hour early or the like.

[@garydunken7934]

Thanks for covering this topic. I don't see/hear any of the media talking about this topic here!

[@MrAljosav]

Woohoo! A video on my home town of Melbourne. Love it!

[@sfb7247]

Melbourne's projects get a lot of videos on B1M. They seem to be big fans of the projects that are being undertaken.

[@damfadd]

​@@sfb7247cos their big !!! REALLY BIG .cos no other gov has done much since Kennett !!

[@PopulismIsForBottomFeeders]

Not content with the entirety of Australian media being Victorian-centric enough (it's saturated), Victorians now want their web-content to be about them, too. Now ask yourselves why everyone Strayan outside of the borders of Vic rolls their eyes at Vics.

[@wattlebough]

Let’s also remember that Melbourne was only first settled by the British in 1835. That’s 190 years from bare grassland and bushland with maybe a thousand semi-nomadic natives to a modern metropolis of 5.3 million people from over 150 countries around the world residing there. It’s also worth noting that the city was only 4 million people in 2010. It grew by 1.3 million people more in only 14 years up to 2024.

[@jamesatherton1853]

It really is an insane achievement

[@kzh5443]

And the fact that infrastructure has been completely holted by unions in the last 20-30 years

[@allangibson8494]

@@kzh5443Except the infrastructure hasn’t. Because if it had been there would be no water or power to the hundreds of thousands of new houses…

[@kzh5443]

@@allangibson8494 have you seen the road works on Westgate freeway? I don’t remember a time when Westgate didn’t have road works. As for your claims of “thousands” of houses, those are privately developed, I was talking about major government projects. Let’s also not forget the terrible housing shortage and rental crisis

[@allangibson8494]

@ When the population goes up 20% in ten years you are going to have an unavoidable housing shortage. The guys building them for major developers are generally UNION members. Major projects do get major labour disputes but things still got built (like a ten percent of the railway lines around Melbourne being replaced in the last ten years).

[@gansimgluck9858]

In Hamburg, we have the same problem of a harbour, the 3rd largest in Europe, being in the center of a large city. Here, however, it is already served by the 2nd largest rail yard in the world. Nice to see that other ports are following suit.

[@willhooke]

If I searched for it on KZbin... What name would I search for? Thank you for your time

[@GamingBren]

I guess you can say it wasn’t in _ship shape_ :)

[@TheB1M]

Haha, nice!

[@nabily2k]

Wow really

[@kalexambing2507]

It was very imPORTant

[@paradox...]

Get out 👉🏼

[@ElectraFlarefire]

The beer is for the rest of Australia. The coffee is for Melbourne. :)

[@damfadd]

Yep ..although we do drink a lot of beer ...been to the warehouses that distribute them ...mind blowing ..huge cold store...and multi palate forklifts to load trucks on fingers ..very impressive

[@ElectraFlarefire]

@@damfadd Yes, but we also make a lot and unless it's from Tassie, it comes overland.

[@damfadd]

@@ElectraFlarefire yep at C.U.B now owned by Asahi ....

[@timconnors]

The coffee beer is for Thornbury.

[@tobyb6248]

Lol what. Melburnians love their beer.

[@thethirdman225]

The amount of construction going on in that area was incredible. Not only was there the Port Rail Project but at the same time, Transurban were building the Westgate Tunnel project (ironically, about 50% of this tunnel is actually elevated road). You can see the bridges in the foreground at 10:28. This was almost like the other part of it. The WTP was designed to get trucks out of the Yarraville area by going underneath it and straight to the Westgate Freeway. It's due to open at the end of 2025. What we need now to back it up is new rolling stock. If you think those engines look old it's because they are. In fact, they're probably older than you realise.

[@glen646]

Thankyou for the content. I work in the area and didn't even know about this part of the project. It's all Metro tunnel, overpasses and Regional Rail where I'm based. Massive undertakings in their own right but this is also huge, Cheers.

[@brettmorton7365]

All this talk of rail, you should cover the inland rail build, and how it will connect even further north thru NSW up to Queensland.. Great vid guys! Love seeing home stuff on your channel! 👍🏼👍🏼

[@AngusDownes]

Read an article about the port a couple of month ago and new it was only a matter of time before a B1m video about it popped up on my feed

[@Nyth63]

Nice to see Bentley Systems spotlighted. I first used their microstation software in 1989.

[@dannick100]

i have gone past this hundreds of times and always wondered what was going on. thanks for the aussie content guys! 🎉

[@Rob_Gater]

Thank you. I live in Melbourne, and we have not heard or seen pretty much anything about this project at all.

[@vintageradio3404]

That is because there isn't a government in charge of the job. It was done on time, on budget and it works so it must have been done without a government overseeing it.

[@Veritas_mens]

You won't hear anything positive in the news, because Murdoch owns a large portion of the news media here.

[@jdillon8360]

Most cars do not come to Australia inside containers. There are special roll-on, roll-off ships where vehicles are literally just driven on and off.

[@fndjfgsdk]

Ah but the containers are how you export the stolen cars!

[@leighchamberlain25]

@@fndjfgsdk and when the car is in a comtainer, the coke filled tyres are harder for the dogs to smell 😄

[@toddross7507]

Hmm maybe like personal import cars they're talking about. Like American classics and the like. I agree though, it did sound odd to mention cars.

[@LawpickingLocksmith]

Port Kembla in NSW is where the cars roll off. Except for BYD that ships some in containers via Darwin.

[@jdillon8360]

@ The port of melbourne also handles cars

[@theWSt]

2:13 "most importantly of all, coffee and beer" 😂☕🍺😎

[@YossiLawrence]

Love the Melbourne videos ❤

[@kalidesu]

Unless you're a Melbourne tobacco shop, or a live in inner Melbourne with the out of control gang wars, with little or no policing. Oh and the banning of Australia day, and the socialist state government bankrupting the state and having the highest taxes. Yeah Melbourne is awesome. :D

[@mahonjt]

I live in the inner west and this project, along with (1) the new tunnel, (2( the new laws around heavy transport vehicle curfews and (3) the improvements to the rail infrastructure for commuters in the form of the new digital metro on the Sunbury line and the regional rail works from a couple years ago are completely transforming the inner West for the better. Long overdue and a credit to the government.

[@adamrtr71]

Too many projects at one time, and too much debt to pay for it all. Govt is directly responsible for inflation, which in turn is keeping interest rates high. The govt both state and federal needs to go. I say this as someone living in Melbourne .

[@otto_schwarzkopf]

Been locking on the perceived mess for a long time from high up. Thanks for the clear overview 👏🏻✅

[@Sebastianmaz615]

Didn't know how flat the land is all around Melbourne. And no, that's not the only take away I got from this very good, informative video. 😆

[@newsgetsold]

Floodplain from the global flood 🌏 about 4500 years ago.

[@antontsau]

Melbourne is just a huge swamp. In geography and politics, both.

[@Sebastianmaz615]

@@antontsau Oh my! Sounds like New Orleans, Louisiana. 😆

[@antontsau]

@@Sebastianmaz615 and many other towns all over the world - built as sea port on some river estuary in undeveloped area with some interesting resources, grew fast sitting on transit (prospectors, farmers, everybody else left poor, port city flourished)... finally nothing left only Big Swamp. Russian version is Spb, the same swamp just frozen.

[@coujo65]

@@Sebastianmaz615 Pls explain why that is funny?

[@uhpenyen4291]

I will always give an upvote to B1M

[@greenvolksi7886]

Be fantastic to get rid of the 3-400m truck journey from Appleton dock rail siding to the port!!! And the people of Yarraville will love the cleaner air, long overdue. This is a good spend

[@MrDavo511]

Observing the port everytime I drive over the Botle is one of my favourite parts of driving through Melb, it’s such a fascinating place to look at. Also the trucks and air quality has definitely been impacted, you always see container trucks on the M1 these days.

[@nabily2k]

Melbourne my city!! Glad to see Docklands docks featured here :)

[@newsgetsold]

One day in the future it will turn into Docklands high density urban residential area, with no docks except maybe some passenger terminals. Then they may bring back the Spirit instead of it going to Geelong.

[@Dave_Sisson]

@@newsgetsold All passenger traffic is handled by Station Pier at the end of the Number 109 tramline. However the state government raised the fees so much that the cruise lines (and Tasmanian ferry) have diverted ships away from Melbourne, so Station Pier has received a lot less ships in the last few years, thus there is no need to relocate it.

[@damfadd]

​@@Dave_Sissonand they never put on shore power for the spirit of spew so it barfed soot all day and night while being loaded and unloaded ..the people of port Melbourne breathe it all in ... especially the close high rise

[@hdmccart6735]

@@Dave_Sisson 128 passenger ships berthed there in the 23-24 cruise season, apparently only 9 have registered for the next season...unbelievable, and another great move by the Andrews/Allen govt. But hey we're getting a tunnel from Cheltenham to Box Hill! Cheers

[@Ferhernando]

Los Angeles needs to take notes! 🧐

[@Veritas_mens]

They may need to if the Panama situation gets out of hand. Ships will just stop using the canal and dock LA and/or Canadian ports, with rail to the east coast.

[@mrcraftiest]

Melbourne rocks

[@newsgetsold]

Melbourne docks. ⛴️

[@Whomobile]

@@newsgetsold Melbourne Socks 🧦

[@ACDZ123]

Melbourne can't afford much. It's broke .WA has to pay your centrelink bill 😅

[@Astbaston]

As a Melburnian that has a *slight* interest in trains, i have always noticed only 1 train per weekday (Pacific National 2MB4) is 1800m and it heads to Sydney. (I do belive that the crossing loops on the Western Standard Gauge line are only 1500m). I hope this leads to more and longer trains but i think some of the other places like the Sunshine Triangle and the curve near Albion station need upgrades as currently trains crawl through that. Anyways this is great. Good job!

[@barryballsit4944]

In the 1880s and 1890s the biggest port in the British Empire outside of Britain was Melbourne

[@peterclark7879]

At that time I believe Melbourne was the richest City in the world due to the gold rush, and I have been told that after the gold rush until the 1960's Melbourne house prices were stagnant ( but I could be wrong).

[@openmodalguitar61]

​@@peterclark7879At the start of the gold rush early 1850s the port was probably the most chaotic in the world as so many sailors jumped ship to go to the goldfields that many ships were stranded there until they could get new crew. It was also very difficult to get luggage moved so it was piled up on a very large scale and backlogged for ages, and no accommodation was available so there was a huge tent city on the fringes of the port. Gold had been discovered in Victoria way before this but the news was suppressed and gold seekers prevented from accessing known fields as the wealthy farmers ('squatters') feared losing their labour force. It was only when gold was discovered in NSW and the labour force headed off there anyway that Victoria decided it was time to get at the gold, the rest is history

[@amanullahkariapper2503]

Coffee and beer ranked above lifesaving meds 😅

[@ThisIsARubbishName]

Oh that's what I went past on the bus! I didn't even know the ports went that far in, plus, didn't know this was a project! How cool!

[@TheDemocrab]

Funny how we're *re*building the railway lines into Port of Melbourne. Once upon a time it was almost entirely rail served and even by those old breadbox electric locos to boot...Trucking is useful but going all-in on it was a huge mistake.

[@MarleneLasile]

*I'm favoured only God knows how much I praise Him,* $230k every 4weeks! | now have a big mansion and can now afford anything and also support God's work and the church.

[@MarleneLasile]

Only God knows how much grateful i am. After so much struggles I now own a new house and my family is happy once again everything is finally falling into place!!

[@MarleneLasile]

It's Ms. Evelyn Vera doing, she's changed my life.

[@MarleneLasile]

I started pretty low, though, $5000 thereabouts. The return came massive. Joey is in school doing well, telling me of new friends he's meeting in school. Thank you Evelyn Vera, you're a miracle.

[@AlichGeorge]

Wow...I know her too she is a licensed broker and a FINRA agent she is popular in US and Canada she is really amazing woman with good skills and experience.

[@JerryAdams-fc7yv]

Same here Waking up every 14th of each month to 210,000 dollars it's a blessing to I and my family... I can now retire knowing that I have a steady income❤️ Big gratitude to Evelyn Vera

[@videowilliams]

Wow, I was born in Melbourne but grew up in Sydney so had no idea it had become the land's prime cargo port. Great work, though, guys, because it's truly rail that does bulk transport best. In fact my father spent 10 years of his working life advising Victorian Rail to get its act together to do just that. Melbourne ain't pretty but she does important work.

[@treslater4404]

Whoah 😮 he spent a decade banging his head against a brick wall getting nowhere, having nobody listen to him untill finally they told him to 5tfu? Is that why you moved to Oxford Street in Sydney and started dancing at the Tool Shed? Because your dad was never there whilst you were growing up, because he spent 10yrs repeating the same mundane rediculous suggestion to a company that didn't care about him?

[@electro_sykes]

You should cover the ambitious inland rail project.

[@michaellucas7882]

Thanks!

[@planetdisco4821]

I live about a kilometre away from here. There’s a great park and walking track running along the side of it that leads to a viewing platform where you can basically do the whole Otis Redding thing and waste some time lol. The viewing platform has been designed to emit different tonal notes when it is windy. In the middle of winter when the wind is really blowing it howls like a thousand screaming banshees and on days like that I like to don my full length oilskins walk out there to the point with my Doberman and striking a dramatic pose stare broodingly at the ocean. Mainly because I live in close proximity to a place where I can strike a dramatic pose and stare broodingly at ocean while accompanied by a chorus of a thousand screaming banshees lol. Amazingly, especially in winter, hardly anyone goes there. Which makes me quite happy (while simultaneously undermining my brooding) in the middle of a city of 5.1 million people

[@cantbearsed444]

I live right around the corner from the dock, where abouts is the viewing platform?

[@planetdisco4821]

I’m not saying lol. Striking a dramatic pose while gazing broodingly at the ocean from the pointy end of a viewing platform that howls in the wind works a lot better when there’s only one person doing it 🧐

[@akiraode-smith6084]

I can't believe we're at 5.1 million people. I remember growing up it was like 1.9 million and now we're heading for 8 million people. Holy smokes.

[@southisup]

Sandridge Lookout​@@cantbearsed444

[@planetdisco4821]

@@akiraode-smith6084 and it only took about 25 minutes to drive from the outer suburbs to the CBD!

[@supergeek0177]

About time we start getting rail back to do the heavy lifting!

[@davidbraithwaite704]

1:21 QVB in Sydney anyone🤔🤭, anyhoo...nice video B1M😊

[@rd9102]

Fantastic video as usual. So much great information to play Cities Skylines 2 with.

[@CornballLyric]

Fantastic video and very much appreciated 👏.

[@perpetualgrin5804]

Love to be at the beach watching the ships pass in the bay.😅 like yesterday.

[@scipioafricanus4328]

Your thumbnail showing that Melbourne port receives ships from Hokitika NZ that, can only receive ships under 3000 tonnes if the river bar is calm, is just hilarious!

[@mcastillano7109]

Thank you Philippines 🇵🇭

[@smitajky]

We used to have a full rail connection to Station Pier and Princes pier that could tranship goods direct to rail. That was destroyed so that Crown Casino could take over Southbank and lead the current transport nightmare through that area. It was replaced with a very circuitous route to Webb dock. That was destroyed so they could put in a football stadium and the Spencer Street and Victoria dock were destroyed to develop that area. Leaving a part of the docklands ENTIRELY reliant on trucks which pass through suburbs where the road making is nowhere near what is needed for heavy trucks. And one "solution" is to move a transshipment hub to the outer north of the city requiring all goods to be on truck through the city. Great solution fellas. I forgot to mention how the original docks in the city were made inaccessible by the low level bridges such as queen's bridge and Spencer st bridge and Victoria docks were made inaccessible through two low level bridges just downstream of them. In essence the docks have been a continuous example of REACTING "planning" and not FORWARD planning. I strongly doubt that this current plan has more than a 10 to 20 year lifespan at most.

[@TheEphemeris]

Fun to see Adam Savage producing this content

[@kevins.4438]

Thanks for the video. Coincidentally, I am in Melbourne as this is published while I live in London…

[@L7MotionPicture]

We love the work you do.

[@fairlymoon448]

This is actually fascinating and awesome. Why is it as a Melbournian I (and I'm sure heaps more) haven't heard jackall about this? Much rather my tax dollars going into worthy causes like decent freight and rail. That's actually really sad. And the fact that it was done so quickly with reuseability of materials is even better. That's the stuff that should be lauded versus the crap we actually get news about.

[@bobodobalina]

there was study done to see is Hasting natural deep port was better but due to the kickbacks and lobbyists making sure the business was never moved from Melbournes port regardless of Hasting natural attributes and the huge saving of transport time on the roads getting to their destination ,Melbourne was still chosen

[@Bushtoven]

Thought the Bentley systems part was oddly specific, but it made sense once you said they were the sponsor. Interesting video nevertheless!

[@ahmednassar4414]

While on the topic of ports, there is a massive project underway in Egypt. The port of Ain Sokhna. It is right at the mouth of the Suez canal (southern end). It is part of a country-wide plan of port expansions in Egypt (Damietta, Alexandria - multiple terminals, Abu Qir, East Port Said, Safaga) but it is the biggest by far, and is gonna be linked to Alexandria by high-speed rail (also underway, due to open by end of next year). So, it would be great if you can make a video about it (as credible information about new constructions in Egypt are hard to come by), its relation to the Suez canal, geopolitics (China's Hutchison will manage multiple terminals in Egypt), regional and global competition (Dubai, Mediterranean, etc.), etc.

[@damienlamaro5865]

Thank you. Great video.

[@stephensmith5210]

Fabulous infrastructure program. 😊

[@skatedd2451]

I remember when I was a kid in Melbourne when I used to go to the city used to get a horrible headache from all the pollution back in the 70s

[@HelloHi-g2u]

Love Australia content. 😍

[@colin5225]

Now I know why my dad use to say " a truck must of left Melbourne" when one of the dogs barked randomly. We lived in Newcastle haha

[@tomhicks1009]

That Labor government in Victoria has been phenomenal with their absolutely massive infrastructure projects. Looking into the future for the next generation to benefit

[@CRCinAU]

Too bad the media won't cover any of the successful projects, but will quickly base Labor for anything they can possibly get away with.

[@shiraz1736]

China has lots of goodies to send us.

[@tomhicks1009]

@@shiraz1736 Yep lots of stuff is made in China

[@smalltime0]

@@CRCinAU "Tonight on Sky News; I burnt my Sunday Roast, and why Dan Andrews is still to blame" Granted I live in WA, I have heard nothing about Jacinta Allan... She's been premier for over a year now.

[@t_hughes]

They have bankrupted the state while lining the pockets their CFMEU mates but yes there are some benefits too, there ought to be given how much money they have spent but still they need to cancel or find some big savings in projects like the suburban rail loop as the cost-benefit analysis does not stack up.

[@steelrad6363]

Thank you for your video.

[@orfeas8]

When is the whole project completed?

[@juliancostas5897]

Cool, randomly worked on this in the early phase

[@fephenstuller]

At 1:21 the video shows the Queen Victoria Building, located on George Street in Sydney. And the banner hanging from the smart pole is promoting Sydney & a Sydney tram (different to Melbourne’s trams) is coming towards the camera. 😂

[@newsgetsold]

But that's being serviced by the Port of Melbourne. At that moment the voiceover says "and indeed this country".

[@bmunson4920]

Some of the scenes (mostly of container movement in port yards) had Chinese characters on the equipment/cranes, suggesting they were not in Australia…

[@shannoncloete8161]

Ai made 😂

[@daveg2104]

@@bmunson4920 I wasn't paying that much attention to those scenes. So maybe they used video clips from copyright free sources. The wider scenes were of Melbourne though.

[@larzarisn8337]

@@newsgetsold It is a minor thing, but Sydney is serviced by port Botany which is in Sydney which transports a similar amount of containers to port Melbourne.

[@pianowhizz]

‘Reclaimed’ the title of biggest city - it was the largest in the past as well. Also has superior public transport, better food, Australia’s comedy festival, better water quality, much wider streets, far less hilly streets, less winding streets - and therefore much less traffic! Oh and Melbourne’s bridge is far less ugly. Sydney has an amazing harbour though, and on the whole: equally nice people.

[@CenturionTheodore]

AU needs bigger ports for the foreseeable future for all of their imports from abroad!

[@newsgetsold]

For all the imported migrants, yes. The existing population just aborts its babies. 👶 -> ☠️

[@ACDZ123]

They will be building a new port south of Perth soon . Fremantle will be retired

[@sashogs]

This video and it’s narrator remind me of documentaries we use to be forced to watch back in school in the late 90s 😂

[@ryshow9118]

Thank you for recognizing the supremacy of coffee and beer.

[@FlipzPlayz]

yeah but support local beers

[@AshleySteel]

Love that the thumbnail is centred on New Zealand 😅

[@gwaeron8630]

I'm still not clear on how the containers go from the ship straight to the train. And then the train goes to the storage area and gets off loaded?

[@antontsau]

not directly, its almost not possible to load containers directly from incoming train to ships - they all go to/from different ships. But if rail siding is just 500m away from the berth, like in any good port, - everything loads and unloads to the same storage area. One local loader takes chest from train, second takes it from storage and moves to berth, no road truck required.

[@pork-the-fork]

I'm sorry, did you say Melbourne doesn't have the facilities to host a major sporting competition?

[@TheLIMREPORT]

It was a joke mate.

[@JohnFromAccounting]

It's a joke because Melbourne is the sport city. The centre of football, cricket and motorsports.

[@keithprice4711]

They even hosted the Olympics in 1956 😂

[@vintageradio3404]

That is correct. Chairman Dan even admitted as much when he ditched the Commonwealth Games. Big things are too hard for Labor.

[@vintageradio3404]

@@JohnFromAccounting Australia's most revered motor race isn't even in a capital city. It is the Repco 1000, staged in Bathurst, NSW and grabbed from Phillip Island, VIC almost 60 years ago.

[@TheAussiePencil]

Wooo Melbourne REPRESENTTTTT SOMEONE'S TALKING ABOUT US

[@elimentic6836]

i love these videos, they are so well thought through! I have one recommendation with the flashing slide transitions, they unfortunately may spark epileptic migraines for me and others who suffer from similar visual things. I'm generally okay with them, but other people might not be so lucky :((

[@Carbon4343]

Just to clarify, they are not "20 ft long units" which was stated in the video. The 3.2 million is TEU which is an equivalancy. Many of the units are 40 ft. One 40 = 2 TEU

[@namanish450]

You should do a video on Perth's new port when it starts construction

[@smalltime0]

It's called Westport and it's suppose to start in roughly 2030. Assuming Labor retains government (which they are almost certain to do). Libs want to can it and build another road to Fremantle, smh.

[@ACDZ123]

Fremantle getting laid off?

[@zygmuntthecacaokakistocrat6589]

1:20 that building is in Sydney.

[@philscott7949]

1:10 Melbourne Cricket Ground is worth a mention at 100,000 seats and I'm from Sydney! Then the video shows George St in Sydney..

[@mr_satay]

Ive just found out Somerton, a suburb north of Melbourne and 2 minutes away from me, is getting a rail terminal directly connected to this project. More traffic, just what we need lol.

[@JorisPauws]

would be cool to see a video about the current and future expansions of the port of Rotterdam

[@AlexSmith-gr4hp]

Someone once explained this to me and it explains Australia more than anything else. Melbourne is Australia’s primary port city because it is most centralised for rail and road to the rest of Australia. Therefore the head offices of corporations in Melbourne tend to be industries related to port export such as mining and primary production. Therefore Melbourne has a subdued personality similar to the large asset based businesses that head office there. E.g. A Melbournian peek hour crowd will all be dressed in black and navy. It’s the sports capital. The beauty is often hidden in laneways. Sydney, on the other hand, is Australia’s primary airport city. As such, the head offices there tend to be services based, such as finance. Sydney’s personality is therefore more extroverted. The beauty of Sydney is all openly apparent.

[@dennis2376]

Thank you.

[@peshay94]

You should do a part two of this video that looks at Sydneys Intermodal Precinct in Moorebank ! It is Australia’s largest intermodal precinct

[@superpintotube]

Good video as always! You should check the works on the Edgar Cardoso Bridge, in Portugal.

[@친환경계획그룹청연]

The level of detail, storytelling, and sheer passion in this video is absolutely mind-blowing! 🚢🏗 The B1M consistently turns massive infrastructure projects into cinematic masterpieces-making engineering feel like the coolest thing on the planet! 🔥👏

[@vladmatsnev]

Love the little sneak - Queen Victoria building at 1:21, which is located in Sydney, not Melbourne!

[@maxpowers5628]

Nice work. Now where is our passenger rail link to the airport so everybody does not have to take a car? This has been talked about for 50 years but is still way behind all other international airports which have trains to and from their airports.

[@crystaldragon141]

Do they operate stack trains? I only saw footage of single container cars.

[@elcasho]

Be good to see how the new build actually worked

[@urbanstrencan]

Great video, what a project. Shipping ports are getting too small for the amount of goods shipped every day around the world.

[@Skasaha_]

Probably should have mentioned the two new intermodal rail terminals in the outer west and north of Melbourne.

[@JAB8]

Somerton Intermodal is private facility under construction now! The Gov's Truganina and Beverage precincts are in the planning stage. The Beveridge Terminal will be built first and then Truganina as capacity is needed, This all ties into the ARTC Inland Rail route Melbourne to Brisbane This coincided with the need for the Outer Suburban Ring /E6 to link the terminals by road with the possibility of rail inside the E6 corridor. All public listed planning if you google it !

[@MagiicMediic]

What about Portswest? Western Australias largest public infrastircture upgrade in history, in cost and scale??

[@chrismurphy110]

ive never seen you show me a finished project yet you show me what there going to make and how there going to make it but never a finished product

[@DioBrando-h2x]

facts

[@samuelwhitfield7453]

It’s like this channel is focused on construction or something….

[@sdracklryeg]

Sure he does ? The channel is a mix of new projects, refurbishments of existing assets or histories of completed assets Just in the last few uploaded videos “The Bridge that changed Europe” is about the tallest bridge in the world that was finished 20 years ago in central France

[@annemaxwell9975]

Very unusual for you or to give specifics instead of huge you normally say how many acres currently and planed expansion is, or number of containers handled in a year etc. Was there a lack of data on this project?

[@rajTrondhjem10]

Good one.. 👍🏼