TasPorts Stakeholder Update | Weather Update Notice #3

TasPorts is continuing to actively monitor the weather event impacting Tasmania and is acting to ensure the safety of its port users, vessels and port infrastructure across the State.

Update

• Harbour Master Instruction 22-66 Port of Devonport – Suspension of Port Movements remains in force.
• The Harbour Master reviews this instruction twice daily and provides updates to TasPorts and port users.
• Debris and several displaced watercrafts are now observed in the Port of Devonport.
• TasPorts’ Incident Management Team is assessing the current hazards and risks before determining a plan to support their safe removal.
• At the same time the Harbour Master is working to develop a process (including identifying appropriate triggers) to guide decision making to inform the resumption of commercial movements in the Port of Devonport.
• Upon receiving confirmation of the resumption of commercial movements, TasPorts will then be able to enact their recovery plan to return the port to full operations.
• All other ports remain open to normal commercial shipping with both under careful watch pending any changes in circumstance that might require escalation.
• We will continue to communicate directly with commercial shipping customers and to monitor the situation.

Contacts

• For emergency help in flooding and storms call the SES on 132 500.
• In a life-threatening emergency call Triple Zero (000).
• TT Line is communicating directly with passengers about service disruptions.