[3] Major commodities handled by the port include crude oil and petroleum products, export grain and woodchips, alumina imports, and fertiliser.

[4] Major port industries include Graincorp's grain elevator and Viva Energy's Geelong Oil Refinery.

[6] By the early twentieth century shipping traffic had increased and the existing piers in the city area were proving inadequate.

[8] Ports Pty Ltd was a joint venture between Primera, a wholly owned subsidiary of TNT (30%) and Infrastructure Investment Corporation (70%).

The ACCC found that the compulsory use of Asciano cranes for dry bulk and fertiliser unloading was anti-competitive, and that the negative effects of the arrangement outweighed any productivity improvements derived from use of a single equipment type.