The M5 motorway runs nearby, and the huge car storage compounds around the dock are visible from the Avonmouth Bridge.

A waste industrial area west of the port is being developed as the Portbury Ashlands Nature Reserve.

[3] Motor vehicles are both loaded and discharged, and stored on paved quay areas and storage compounds.

Coal and other bulk cargoes can be discharged with two continuous ship unloaders and two gantry grab cranes, allowing for 5,000 tonne per hour throughput.

[5] Since 2013 the wings for the Airbus A400M Atlas have left Portbury on three specialised ferries (one called the Ville De Bordeaux) after travelling from the factory at Filton.