Emergency Response

Emergency and incident response are vital to the operation of any port. Emergency situations may arise, including spillage of dangerous or hazardous substances, fires and other accidents.

Sydney Ports highly-trained emergency response team responds to more than 200 reports of marine pollution each year. About 98 per cent of reports are found to be unrelated to commercial shipping activities and attributed to pollution from recreational vessels, debris or land-sourced run-off.

Sydney Ports provides a 24-hour emergency response that can deal with incidents in both Sydney Harbour and Botany Bay.

Any port related emergencies should be reported 24 hours a day on +61 2 9296 4000.