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 Pier at Botany on the northern shore of Botany Bay were still standing in 2002. The area is now part of Port Botany, which has supplanted Sydney Harbour as the main cargo port of Sydney. There is one remaining 'sixty-miler' afloat, the "MV Stephen Brown," although no longer in use as a collier"." She is used as a stationary training vessel by the Australian Maritime College. Wrecks of other 'sixty-milers' exist at Homebush Bay in Sydney and on the sea bed near Sydney. Coastal coal-carrying trade of New South Wales The Coastal coal-carrying trade of New South Wales involved the