May 24--AUSTRALIA's Victoria state government's infrastructure advisor, Infrastructure Victoria, is calling for Melbourne's second major container port to be built near Werribee - but not for another 40 years.

　　Only when container traffic outgrows capacity at the Port of Melbourne does Infrastructure Victoria advise that Bay West, between Werribee and Point Wilson, build a box port there - and that's not anytime soon.

　　The port's new container terminal would be built offshore - a four kilometre-long industrial island connected with the mainland via a 1.5-kilometre road and rail bridge that would radically reshape the port of Phillip Bay, reported the Melbourne Age.

　　New road and rail links would also be built across Melbourne Water's vast Western Treatment Plant, which is also a protected site for birdlife.

　　A state spokesman said the Victoria government has "now received Infrastructure Victoria's report into options on securing Victoria's future ports capacity."

　　Infrastructure Victoria has assessed that the port of Melbourne, Australia's busiest, should remain the focus of Victorian container trade and will continue to grow to three times its present size.

　　Bay West would begin to take over once container traffic at the port of Melbourne reached eight million shipping containers TEU annually. Infrastructure Victoria predicts traffic will reach this mark in 2055.

　　Labour has indicated its preference for Bay West as the home for Melbourne's next major port for some years, including from opposition, arguing it would create jobs for Geelong and Melbourne's outer western suburbs.