Port of Gold Coast - Ocean-side Cruise Ship Terminal

Project overview*

EIS status	EIS active
Description	Ocean-side cruise ship port facility designed to permit use by the range of cruise ships typically operating around Australia as well as the world’s largest cruise ship vessels.
Proponent	Gold Coast City Council
Location/s	Philip Park, Gold Coast. Map
Local government/s	Gold Coast City Council
Investment	$463 million
Key features	jetty structure extending approximately 950 m offshore from Philip Park wharf structure including mooring and berthing facilities for cruise ships and passenger platform offshore breakwater structure approximately 780 m in length to protect berthing cruise ships and terminal infrastructure from ocean swell cruise ship terminal and landside facilities short term passenger drop-off areas and staff only long-term parking facilities
Construction start date	2022
Jobs	363 (construction) 1557 (operational)

* Project information supplied by proponent and subject to change.

Date	Activity
Currently	Draft terms of reference for EIS being prepared.
19 November 2019	Gazettal ( 252 KB) ‘Coordinated project’ declaration.
3 July 2019	Application, including initial advice statement ( 6.8 MB), submitted.
15 May 2017	Project deemed not a 'controlled action' – provided the project is undertaken in a 'particular manner'.
14 March 2017	Project referred to Commonwealth Minister for the Environment.