Newport, Wales and was the largest masonry dock in the world. Although coal exports from Newport were by now modest compared to the Port of Cardiff (which included Cardiff, Penarth and Barry), Newport was the place where the Miners' Federation of Great Britain was founded in 1889, and international trade was sufficiently large for 8 consuls and 14 vice-consuls to be based in the town. In 1898 Lysaght's Orb Works opened and by 1901 employed 3,000 staff. Urban expansion took in Pillgwenlly and Lliswerry to the south; this eventually necessitated a new crossing of the River Usk, which was provided by the
Coastal coal-carrying trade of New South Wales initial low payment upon delivery of their coal to a customer but also later received a share of the actual profits from all sales, in proportion to their market share. "Main article: Wollongong Harbour Precinct" Wollongong was for a time the only safe anchorage on the southern coalfields and the third largest port in NSW. The coal port at Wollongong Harbour consisted of the man-made Belmore Basin and the 'Tee Wharf'. On Belmore Basin, there were four coal straithes on the western side of the basin and two steam cranes on the eastern side. Loading at the 'Tee Wharf' was