Enjoy guided tours of the spectacular Port Kembla Steelworks, offering an up close and personal sensory experience of the largest and most dynamic concentration of heavy industry in Australia.

After a quick safety briefing at the Visitor Centre, you will be kitted out in safety gear (PPE) before boarding the tour bus to begin a truly sensory ‘steelmaking’ experience. As the tour bus snakes around the Port Kembla Steelworks site, you will spot everything from monster machinery, giant buildings, locomotives and huge stockpiles of raw materials.

Time to turn up the heat as you climb the stairs to visit the colossal Basic Oxygen Steelmaking (BOS) plant and the continuous slab caster to get the best vantage point of steel production – a truly unique and sensory experience.

In the tour’s final stage, visit the Hot Strip Mill, where steel slabs are reheated and rolled into coils in a noisy, action-packed process.

Port Kembla is at the forefront of Australia’s clean energy transition. Join us on our Clean Energy Tours to learn more about this transition based on renewable energy and hydrogen.

Driving this transformation are the Port Kembla Hydrogen Hub and Renewable Energy Zone (REZ) being facilitated by the NSW Government, with over $700 million in major energy projects – to be completed by the end of 2024.

The Clean Energy Tours feature Australia’s first heavy vehicle hydrogen refuelling station that is enabling a range of zero emissions trials for trucks and buses, powered by hydrogen produced at Port Kembla from recycled water and renewable energy.

The Clean Energy Tours run on the third Saturday of each month.

Following a quick tour introduction at the Visitor Centre, you board the tour bus to begin the tour of the Port of Port Kembla with a short visit to Greenhouse Park.

Next, enter the Inner Harbour to see the Port’s key infrastructures – being Port Kembla Coal Terminal (the second largest coal terminal in the state), the Grain Terminals, the state’s largest motor vehicle import hub and shipping berths – a key gateway supporting New South Wales’ motor vehicle, mining, agricultural, manufacturing and construction industries.

After visiting the Inner Harbour, travel along the outskirts of the Port Kembla Steelworks and discuss all things Steel whilst travelling toward the Outer Harbour precinct – A short stop at Christy Dr (offering spectacular views of the Inner Harbour berths), it’s now time to discover the additional infrastructure and industries that are in and around the Outer Harbour – Before heading back to the Visitor Centre, and finishing the tour on a beautiful high at Hill 60 with amazing panoramic views of the Illawarra coastline, Lake Illawarra and industrial super centre just explored.

Working Port Tours run on the second Saturday of each month.

The Tour takes in some of the many historical sites along the Blue Mile including Wollongong Harbour, the Forts (Flagstaff Hill and Smiths Hill), the Old Courthouse, the Tramway, the Pools and Northbeach.

Along the way, the experienced Guides relay the stories of the Foreshore – including its Indigenous history, sea bathing, coal, salt making, trading, and the start of industry in Wollongong.