Transport Oracle

Analysis

What Transport Oracle shows about Australian ports, ships and freight, as first posted on LinkedIn, with sources named on each page.

22 October 2026

From June to September, container ships waited at anchor three times as long as last year

Container ships waiting for a Melbourne berth spent three times as long at anchor this winter as last, on just 8% more calls.
1 October 2026

Late ships into Melbourne are predictable weeks in advance

Disruption in Asia reaches Melbourne about three weeks later, and you can see it coming in public vessel data.
23 September 2026

One ship, one day, and the trucks that meet it

Port Phillip Bay on Monday 17 August: every vessel movement from the month on one 24-hour clock, with articulated trucks on the freeways and one container ship followed from the Heads to Swanson Dock.
10 September 2026

Melbourne's published landside metric says nothing changed

Strip out bigger truck loads and terminal service is 9% slower than FY22.