Port of Eden

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The Port of Eden is a small seaport in Twofold Bay adjacent to the town of Eden on the south coast of New South Wales, Australia.
Illawarra Steam Navigation Company's SSBega at Eden in 1903

The bay was first charted by explorer George Bass in 1797[1] and has been used for commercial whaling and fishing since the 1840's.

From the 1850s to 1950s the port was serviced by steamship companies, including the Illawarra Steam Navigation Company.
Industries
The port is a principal export point for timber products, with a trade throughput of more than one million tonnes a year.[2] Each year approximately 800,000 tonnes of woodchips are exported to south-east Asia via the port, as well as 60,000 mass tonnes of softwood timber to Japan and Korea.[3] Woodchip storage and packaging facilities were constructed by Harris Daishowa in 1971.
Facilities
The port consists of two commercial shipping wharves, the Mobil petroleum wharf, a cargo storage area and ancillary facilities.

The Breakwater Wharf caters for the timber industry, the fishing fleet and cruise shipping. Wharf length is 105 metres with depths ranging from three metres to the landward end and 8.8 metres seaward, with a tidal variation of two metres. The wharf itself is concrete with rubber fending.[4]

In 2003 a multi-purpose wharf and munitions facility was constructed to expand naval repair and refit operations and increase the port's timber export capacity by 150,000 tonnes.[2] Wharf length is 200 metres, accessed via a 560 metre timber jetty. Berthing depth is 12 metres but maximum vessel raft is restricted by a low-water fairway depth of 11 metres.[4]

The common-user cargo storage area covers 10 hectares with a gravel surface and sealed internal roads. Storage capacity is estimated to reach 500,000 tonnes in 2010/11.