Echuca Wharf

Echuca Wharf ( German: Echuca port) is a historic built of timber port facility on the Murray River at Echuca in Victoria, Australia. There was a significant historical harbor, which is a listed building today.

The port and a railway line was built between the years 1865-1867 from solid wood of Red Gums ( Corymbia calophylla ) built to open up the way for freight and transport to Melbourne. It was 1880, the second port of Victoria and opened the way into the agricultural region of Riverina to the ports of Melbourne and Adelaide in the fertile Murray - Darling Basin. In the port facilities, vessels and railroad cars were built and a fleet of about 240 steamers transported in the 1890s goods of this port on.

Between 1855 and 1859 several ship transports on the Murray River, Murrumbidgee and Darling River were made that did not yield satisfactory results, therefore it was decided to build a harbor and a railway on which mainly cattle, sheep and wool should be transported. The port had great significance for the development of agriculture in the mid- 1800s and the economic growth and development of the Australian colonies of New South Wales and South Australia. In the port facility put in his best times daily for up to one hundred transport ships.