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The Tasmanian-based Australian Maritime College (AMC) is working on resolving the nation's port congestion.
It has created a new Port Development Unit which recently contributed to a $1.5 billion upgrade of a major miner's West Australian export facility.
An AMC study reassured Rio Tinto that 50 metres was enough space to separate the passing and berthed ships.
The Port Development Unit's Director Dr Martin Renilson says the AMC's research helped the company design the new dock.
"There's really no other way of being able to predict what the forces would be on the moored ship other than carrying out the experiments that we did," he said.
"So we were able to tell them whether in fact the case would work or not. That's pretty important I reckon."
Dr Renilson says the AMC is working with other Australian ports on design and congestion.
"At AMC, with the Port Development Unit we're looking at all sorts of ways we can help ports," he said.
"Ranging from the ship handling simulator looking at the way ships manoeuvre in ports, through to the hydrodynamics facilities, looking at the channel design and the interaction and so on, right through to our logistics and our environmental capabilities.
"We can apply all these to look at helping different ports."
It has created a new Port Development Unit which recently contributed to a $1.5 billion upgrade of a major miner's West Australian export facility.
An AMC study reassured Rio Tinto that 50 metres was enough space to separate the passing and berthed ships.
The Port Development Unit's Director Dr Martin Renilson says the AMC's research helped the company design the new dock.
"There's really no other way of being able to predict what the forces would be on the moored ship other than carrying out the experiments that we did," he said.
"So we were able to tell them whether in fact the case would work or not. That's pretty important I reckon."
Dr Renilson says the AMC is working with other Australian ports on design and congestion.
"At AMC, with the Port Development Unit we're looking at all sorts of ways we can help ports," he said.
"Ranging from the ship handling simulator looking at the way ships manoeuvre in ports, through to the hydrodynamics facilities, looking at the channel design and the interaction and so on, right through to our logistics and our environmental capabilities.
"We can apply all these to look at helping different ports."
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