Zusammenfassung der Ressource
To what extent did
the Port of
Melbourne influence
the development of
Melbourne as a
modern urban en
- Economy
- Puts a large amount of money back into the community
- the port is a government owned
thingy and as such all of the profit
that it makes is put back into the
governments and used for a
various number of things like
improvement of infastrucure and
other stuff
- the import and export of products provides for
the markets and selling of goods which is a major
driving force for the economy
- Provides a large
number of jobs to
many people
- infrastructure
- Makes up a prominent part of the city of melbourne
- Upgrades for the port are planned in the future
- Improvements in the size of the
ships that can unload at the port
- Improvements in the
amount of storage at the
port
- the improvement in storage will help the city as it
means they will be able to bring in more products at
an increased rate
- Separated into different area's,
for example liquid goods
- geographic characteristics
- The river was re-routed
- the island itself is partially man made
- Divided into a wide range of
sectors which assists in
organisation
- Security
- Container checks
- Staff have to go through customs to disembark then ship
- Social
- Improves conectedness with other
countries around the world
- It is home to a number of different countries and companies
- Political
- the port is government
- This means that it is open
to government change at
their behest
- the port itself as it stands does not have the best stability as
it is unable to accomadate the increasing sizes of ships, but
changes are planned to fix this issue