Built for the way bulk
shipping actually runs.

Bulk-carrier port calls in Australia are typically routed across five to seven different vendors per call — the chandler, the agent, the cleaning crew, the fumigator, the surveyor, the launch operator, the transport firm. Each comes with its own quote, scope, contact, and invoice. The coordination of those vendors is itself a real cost — paid in time, friction, and disbursement variance.

Strait Marine consolidates that coordination layer. We hold the partner network, the regulatory mapping, and the workflow. We keep the documentation together. We give the operator one point of contact for every service, every port, every call.

Some services we deliver directly. Others we coordinate through pre-vetted partners — class-society-approved welding firms, AFAS-accredited fumigators, AGSA-accredited surveyors, CASA-certified aviation operators. In every case we name the credential, name the partner, and stand accountable for the outcome.

Strait Marine operates across the Victorian coast and the South Australian gulf. Four Victorian ports — Melbourne, Geelong, Western Port, Portland — and eight South Australian — Adelaide, Port Pirie, Whyalla, Wallaroo, Ardrossan, Port Lincoln, Lucky Bay, and Thevenard.

The metro hubs (Melbourne, Adelaide, Geelong) get same-day coverage. The regional ports — particularly Ardrossan, Lucky Bay, and Thevenard, where the integrated networks have thin or no presence — are covered through local agency partnerships and pre-staged stock during grain season.

We don't claim ports we can't service. The twelve ports listed are the twelve we have or are establishing partner coverage for. Expansion to additional ports happens when we hold the partner network to back the claim.