Notices to Mariners in force

Links in tables below to Preliminary and Temporary Notices to Mariners issued before 2012 which were still in force on 1 January 2012 in Victorian Notice to Mariners 001(T)/12.

Also see:
Notices to Mariners issued in 2012
Archived Notices to Mariners from 2002 onwards (Victorian Regional Channels Authority website)

Victorian Notices to Mariners provide legal notification of changes to port waters that could affect the safe and efficient movement of shipping in or out of the Port of Melbourne. The master of a vessel must ensure that the vessel carries copies of, and complies with, Notices to Mariners affecting the port or port waters.

Port of Melbourne Corporation - in force 1 January 2012
Number Description Date
146(T)-11 Port Phillip / Establishment of Exclusion Zones - South Channel

9 Dec 2011
145(T)-11 Port Phillip / New Lateral Mark Beacon No. 22 to be established north east
of Hovell Pile

7 Dec 2011
143-11 Port of Melbourne / Hovell Pile - Secondary channel established by Beacon No. 22

8 Dec 2011
142(T)-11 Port of Melbourne / Point Lonsdale - Christmas tree lights

2 Dec 2011
128(T)-11 Port of Melbourne / South Channel - Shoals reported - Reduction of depths

3 Nov 2011
127(T)-11 Port of Melbourne / South Channel - Shoals reported - Reduction of depth

3 Nov 2011
126(T)-11 Port of Melbourne / South Channel - Shoals reported - Reduction of depth

3 Nov 2011
110-11 Port of Melbourne / Port of Melbourne Corporation Operations Handbook
-September 2011 Edition

15 Sep 2011
108-11 Port of Melbourne / Port Phillip Heads - Approaches to Port Phillip Heads
- Reported shoal

8 Sep 2011
095-11 Port Phillip Heads / Tidal stream limits for vessels transiting Port Phillip Heads

20 Jul 2011
093(T)-11 Port Phillip Bay / South Channel - Vicinity of No. 20 Beacon - Temporary
buoy established

15 Jul 2011
089(T)-11 Port of Melbourne / Port Phillip Heads - Shoaling observed in
the Great Ship Channel

5 Jul 2011
088-11 Port of Melbourne / River Yarra Beacon No. 44 re-established

30 Jun 2011
085(T)-11 Port Phillip Bay / Shoaling reported in vicinity of No. 20 Beacon
near Hovell Pile - South Channel

24 Jun 2011
080(T)-11 Port Phillip / Transit Only Zone - Temporary removal of buoys T5 and T6

2 Jun 2011
057(T)-11 Port of Melbourne / No. 1 Maribyrnong approaches - Depth reduction

12 April 2011
055(T)-11 Port of Melbourne / No. 1 Maribyrnong - Berth depth reduction

11 April 2011
053-11 Port of Melbourne / Port Melbourne Channel - Entrance Bn E1, Es and
No. 6 Bn - Change of light intensity and characteristics

7 April 2011
038(T)-11 Port of Melbourne / River Yarra - No. 33 South Wharf
- Berth remediation works - Berth closed to all vessels

23 Feb 2011
024(T)-11 Port of Melbourne / River Yarra Beacon No. 49 to be removed -
Temporary light to be established

4 Feb 2011
002(T)-11 Port of Melbourne / Appleton Dock - Wharf upgrade works -
Clear zone around work units

5 Jan 2011
092(T)-10 Port Phillip / South Channel - South Channel submerged structure

23 Sep 2010
076-10 Port Phillip / Port of Melbourne - Obstruction observed

27 Jul 2010
103(T)-07 Port Phillip / South Channel - marking of redundant pile structure

21 Aug 2007
013(T)-05 Port Phillip / Port of Melbourne - Update of waterside restriction zones

25 Jan 2005

Other organisations - in force 1 January 2012
Number Description Date
159(T)-11 Powlett River / South Gippsland

31 Dec 2011
157(T)-11 Port of Corner Inlet and Port Albert / Port Albert entrance - Navigation warning

21 Dec 2011
150(T)-11 Port Phillip / Swan Bay - Reconstruction of jetty

9 Dec 2011
148-11 Western Port / Coronet Bay - Bass Coast Shire - Construction of a new
boat ramp at Coronet Bay

7 Dec 2011
144-11 Port of Corner Inlet and Port Albert / Franklin Channel
- Alteration to barge mooring buoys

7 Dec 2011
137(T)-11 Lighthouse Point - Corner Inlet

25 Nov 2011
135(T)-11 Port Phillip / Rosebud motor boat squadron mooring basin
- Maintenance dredging works

22 Nov 2011
132-11 Port of Portland / Pipe laying and dredging operations

23 Nov 2011
131(T)-11 Gippsland Ports / Port of Corner Inlet and Port Albert - Franklin channel

15 Nov 2011
121(T)-11 Port of Lakes Entrance / Lakes Entrance - Dredging operations

26 Oct 2011
119(T)-11 Port Phillip / Patterson River - Whalers Cove - Replacement of tidal gates
at the Eastern Channel to Whalers Cove

17 Oct 2011
113(T)-11 Port Campbell

20 Sep 2011
105(T)-11 Port of Gippsland Lakes / Lakes Entrance Bar

25 Aug 2011
104(T)-11 Port of Corner Inlet and Port Albert - Midge Channel

17 Aug 2011
101(T)-11 Port of Gippsland Lakes - Lakes Entrance bar

11 Aug 2011
100-11 Port of Corner Inlet and Port Albert / Corner Inlet inner entrance, Bentley Point
- Alteration to navigation

9 Aug 2011
073(T)-11 Port of Corner Inlet and Port Albert / Corner Inlet Inner Entrance  and Franklin
Channel

13 May 2011
081(T)-10 Waratah Bay / Shallow inlet entrance

19 Aug 2010
071-10 Port of Hastings / Patrick Ports Hastings - new Operating Handbook

7 Jul 2010
046(T)-10 Port Campbell / New lead lights have been established replacing lead,
Point Sturgess

11 May 2010
045(P)-10 Port Campbell / Altered alignment of leads on west headland at Napier Bluff,
Port Campbell

11 May 2010
033-10 Port of Hastings / Single pile beacons at Crib Point Jetty &
Flinders aquaculture lease area

25 Mar 2010
076-09 Port of Portland / Establishment of a continuously operating reference station
(isolated danger) inside harbour, south of the lee breakwater

4 Jun 2009
065(T)-08 Port Phillip / Outer harbour - Abalone farm dislodged pipelines, Leopold

23 Apr 2008
064(T)-08 Port of Hastings / Shoaling in channel betwen Nos. 13 and 15 buoys

21 Apr 2008
140(T)-07 Port of Barwon Heads / Orungal wreck hazard - East of river entrance

2 Nov 2007
053-06 Port of Barwon Heads / Barwon Heads river entrance - Sand movements -
Possible reductions in depth

31 Mar 2006
018(P)-06 Port of Hastings / Stony Point Jetty lead lights

20 Jan 2006
071-05 Port of Hastings / Maritime Transport Security Regulations 2003 Restricted Zones

15 Aug 2005
068-05 Port of Hastings / Maritime Transport Security Regulations 2003 Restricted Zones

1 Aug 2005

For more information contact:

Navigation Services
Port of Melbourne Corporation

Tel: +61 1300 857 662
Email: navservices@portofmelbourne.com