White Bay, New South Wales

White Bay is a bay on Sydney Harbour with a surrounding locality near the suburbs of Balmain and Rozelle in the Inner West of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

White Bay is named after John White, the naval surgeon aboard the First Fleet to Australia in 1788. Since the nineteenth century the bay has been used for water-based transport and industrial activities. In conjunction with adjacent Glebe Island it has been a multipurpose port, owned and controlled by the Government of New South Wales since 1901.

White Bay was the first port in New South Wales to handle containerised shipping, from 1969. In the 1970s there were several companies operating container terminals, with rail transfer to larger holding yards at Chullora. Container handling moved out of White Bay in late 2004, relocating to Darling Harbour.

The White Bay Cruise Terminal opened in April 2013 replacing an earlier terminal elsewhere in Sydney Harbour. White Bay is also used for marine refuelling.

White Bay also caters for break bulk cargo (timber, paper, motor vehicles and steel) and dry bulk cargoes (cement, sugar, gypsum, aggregates, etc.).

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