Port of Hay Point

🇦🇺 Australia

Oceania · Bulk Cargo Terminal

UN/LOCODE
AUHAY
Country
🇦🇺 Australia
Port Type
Bulk Cargo Terminal
Ocean Region
Oceania
Latitude
-21.2800° S
Longitude
149.3000° E

Regional Risk Context — Oceania

Hay Point in Australia sits along the Asia-Oceania trade corridor, handling coal, iron ore, LNG, agricultural products, and containerised manufactured goods. Australia's position as the world's largest exporter of iron ore makes its port infrastructure strategically significant for global commodity markets. Tropical cyclone season (November–April) is the primary natural hazard, particularly along Australia's northern and western coasts; the iron ore ports of Western Australia have historically caused global price spikes during cyclone-related closures. Australia's biosecurity and PSC regimes are among the strictest in the world — AMSA inspections under the Tokyo MOU framework focus on vessel safety, crew competency, and environmental compliance, and biosecurity holds for ballast water or hull fouling can cause significant delays.

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Sea Distances

Routed sea distances from Hay Point to the principal global hubs, computed by ArcNautical's routing engine — around land and through the canals a ship actually uses, not great-circle.

Vessel Mix

No port-call data observed at Hay Point in the last 180 days. This reflects the reach of the terrestrial AIS network behind this page — coverage is densest in Northwest Europe and thins elsewhere — and is not a statement about traffic at Hay Point.

Port State Control Context

Hay Point falls under the Tokyo MoU. The Tokyo Memorandum of Understanding (Asia-Pacific) maintains the most active publicly-available regional PSC programme. Across the last 24 months, the Tokyo MoU detention dataset records 5,454 distinct vessel detentions (sourced from OpenSanctions, as of 2026-08-02). Vessel-level detention probability is computed by ArcNautical using flag performance, vessel age, deficiency history, and ownership opacity.

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