Port Giles, South Australia
- Port Giles, South Australia
Infobox Australian Place | type = locality
name = Port Giles
state = sa
caption = Grain Silos at Port Giles
lga = District Council of Yorke Peninsula
postcode =
est = 1970
pop =
elevation=
maxtemp =
mintemp =
rainfall =
stategov = Goyder
fedgov = Grey
dist1 = 3
dir1 = south
location1= Wool Bay
Port Giles is the newest port on Yorke Peninsula in South Australia, between Stansbury and Edithburgh. Port Giles is not a town, but simply a large jetty equipped for bulk handling of grain, operated by Flinders Ports, and a similarly large grain storage facility operated by ABB Grain. It was opened by the then Premier of South Australia, Steele Hall in 1970, and led to the closure of many of the smaller ports on the peninsula. Port Giles was deliberately built to be able to handle bulk grain, and load it onto larger modern ships. Many of the other ports were not deep enough for larger ships, and could only be serviced by small ketches and coastal steamships. They only handled grain in bags, not in bulk.
External links
*cite web |url=http://www.flindersports.com.au/portfacilities7.html |publisher=Flinders Ports |title=Port Giles |accessdate=2008-08-05
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