New pipelines were installed in 1956 for the Shell Oil Company on the Tanker Jetty to convey product to their Esperance depot.

In February, Vacuum Oil (Mobilgas) opened a new facility with the capability to store 2,368,000 gallons (10,765,000 litres), built on 8 acres (3.24Ha) of land at the foot of the Deepwater Jetty, connected by a 4,00ft (1,219m), 8 inch (20cm) pipeline.

The company’s Esperance Works were commissioned and Albany Superphosphate Company commenced manufacturing at Esperance.

The contracts for the Public Works Department designed and managed project for dredging, building of a protective breakwater and construction of a new berth were awarded in July.

Esperance population is 4,500

The Norwegian 6082 GRT ‘Anna Bakke’ was the first vessel to load wheat in bulk on the Deepwater Jetty.

Commenced at the end of the year, 2,100,000 m3 of spoil in the Harbour basin and Channel is to be removed, dredged to 32ft (9.8m) by contractor West Australian Dredging.

The Breakwater is to be 3,425ft (1044m) long and 14ft (4.3m) above low water mark, using rock quarried from nearby Dempster Head, by contractor Barbarich Construction Co Pty Ltd.

90 acres (36.5Ha) is to be reclaimed for a new berth and future port facilities.

Further work on the breakwater. Work commenced in March on the new land-backed Berth 1, by contractor John Holland Constructions Pty Ltd. It is a steel and concrete structure on tube piles with a length of 634ft (193m), width of 73ft (22.25m) and depth alongside of 34ft (10.3m)

Esperance celebrated its Centenary with a Festival - 100 years of settlement.

The operating Authority for the Port of Esperance is the Department of Harbour and Light.

1964/65 trade: Imports were 59.205 tons of phosphate rock, sulphur and general, and 67,400 tons of bulk fuel oils. Exports were 47,519 ton of wheat, copper concentrate and magnetite.