Planning for a transit shed for cargo at Berth 1 began in June. £65,000 was budgeted in the 1960/61 estimates for the floor, road and rail approaches, water and electricity services, and progress payments for the shed structure. In May 1961, the Board reported that contractors had commenced construction of the shed.

The sea baths and shed were demolished.

Motor Tug ‘Kalgan’ was officially launched on 16 June. Built at Birkenhead, S.A. in 1961, the 21m long, 96.5 tonne vessel was named after the river flowing into Oyster Harbour, which was called Kalganup by Menang people.

Transferred to the Port of Hobart in 1975.

The new Customs House was opened by the Minister for Customs, Sir Kenneth Anderson, on Brunswick Road, overlooking Princess Royal Harbour at a cost of $52,000. For over 100 years, Customs had worked from rooms in the Albany Post Office on Stirling Terrace.

The Albany Harbour Board Act Amendment Act 1967 was assented to on 5 October, whereby the Albany Harbour Board changed to the Albany Port Authority. The Chief Harbour Master was re-defined as “...the person for the time being holding the office of Manager of the Harbour and Light Department”.

“Harbour” became “Port”.

The Managing Secretary, Berthing Master (i.e. the Harbour Master) and the Wharf Manager were to be appointed by the Governor. The Port Authority could undertake capital works up to $10,000.

A new Port Administration Building was opened below Brunswick Road on 1 March.

On 14 March, the Swedish ship ‘Talarah’ departed after lifting unitised wool (in units of six bales). This was the first time that unitised cargo was handled at Albany.

Variously, bales were loaded thereafter in units, containers and loose.

The trade continued until 1980. Over 660,000 bales of wool (188,745 tonnes) were exported, the largest annual number was in 1968/69 (100,512 bales).

The Albany Superphosphate Works objected to Queensland company, Austral Pacific Fertilisers erecting a urea factory on port land. Work commenced on a nine acre (3.6ha) $1m investment site where imports were expected to begin in 1970 from Gibson Island in Queensland.

The plant closed down in late 1970.

PDC Construction was awarded the contract in January 1969 to construct a new (No.3) berth and to extend Berth 1.

The work was completed in March 1971 and the first vessel to use the new Berth 3 was the ‘Amstelmolen’.

Berth 3 was 640 feet (195m) long, and with the 94 foot (28.6m) extension to Berth 1, a continuous wharf face of 1847 feet (563m) was available.

Further work was carried out in 1972 and 1973, and the remaining sheds on the east side of the jetty were demolished and south-east arm shortened.

The straight arm section beyond the curved arm of the Deepwater Jetty was demolished.

19 December 1982 was the last use of the oil line facility and from January 1983 the jetty ceased commercial port operations.

In 1993, contractors John Holland removed the remaining parts of the decayed jetty remnants. 4,200 tonnes of timber was given to charities and to local residents in a ‘timber frenzy’.