How it started

With the demand of imports from Papua New Guinea the amount of ships coming into Port Moresby both domestically and internationally has increased dramatically over the past years. After an initial survey was carried out it was concluded that creating Port Kennedy will greatly ease the stress of existing ports allowing Port Kennedy to mainly focus on Domestic Shipping in it's initial state.

The intention is to develop the new Port Kennedy as a domestic port in its initial phase thereby limiting overseas ship calls to the existing Ports of arrival. This fact may well provide an incentive to regular calling domestic vessels to call at Port Kennedy as port access would be more available given the assumption that existing ports would provide priority berth space for international calling vessels.

Berth facilities needed to accommodate the number and types of ships will be estimated based upon the demand forecast of vessel arrivals, frequency and berth time alongside and the throughput of cargo import and export freight and storage required. The initial design concept of a 600m quay line with maximum 9 m draft at Lowest Astronomical Tide (LAT) will be a baseline for the evaluation and design concepts.

The Concept design plans for the new port will also be considered against wave and wind climate. The site and alignment and concept advice on quay height based on wave climate information for Port Moresby will be reviewed.

The wind and wave climate data statistics of conditions over a 30 year period for wind−generated surface gravity waves, often called wind waves and swell will be assessed.