Port Hedland Tours – Experience the Pilbara
Discover Port Hedland on an unforgettable guided tour showcasing the Pilbara’s world-class iron ore, mining, port and salt industries, local history and unique landscape.
Bookings (May – September)
All Tours leave from the Port Hedland Visitor Centre
Experience the Pilbara
Join us for an unforgettable tour of the Pilbara at Port Hedland,
showcasing the area at its best.
showcasing the area at its best.
Our guided Port Hedland bus tours explore the enormous resources industry of the Pilbara, including iron ore, salt, lithium, manganese and copper. Discover how iron ore and other resources are mined across the Pilbara, transported by some of the world’s longest and heaviest trains, and shipped from Port Hedland – the world’s largest bulk export port.
Our Twilight Industry Tour showcases the Port Hedland Port and its extraordinary iron ore export industry. See the massive iron ore trains, mining equipment, road trains and bulk carriers that make Port Hedland one of the world’s great resources hubs. Learn about the operations of BHP, Fortescue and Hancock Iron Ore, along with the other companies exporting millions of tonnes of resources through the port each year.
Our Salt Industry Tour takes you behind the scenes of Port Hedland’s fascinating solar salt industry. Discover how seawater is concentrated through vast evaporation ponds before salt crystallises and is harvested for export. Your local guide explains the salt production process as you travel through the Port Hedland salt fields and learn how millions of tonnes of salt are produced and exported to markets around the world.
Industry Tours
Experience Port Hedland’s iron ore, port, salt and resource industries
Local Guides
Local knowledge bringing Port Hedland’s industries and history to life
Behind the Scenes
Go behind the scenes of Port Hedland’s fascinating port and salt industries.
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Tours
Salt Industry Tour
Experience one of Port Hedland’s most fascinating industries on our Salt Industry Tour. This exclusive guided bus tour takes you behind the scenes of Rio Tinto’s vast salt production operations at Port Hedland.
Discover how enormous volumes of seawater are concentrated through a series of evaporation ponds before salt crystallises and is harvested. Your local guide explains the salt production process as you travel through the salt fields and see firsthand the enormous scale of the operation.
Learn how the salt is harvested, processed and prepared for export, and discover how millions of tonnes of salt produced at Port Hedland are shipped to markets around the world.
This is a rare opportunity to experience Port Hedland’s salt industry from the inside and discover an industry that most visitors never get the chance to see.
Port Hedland Twilight Industry (Port) Tour
Experience the incredible scale of the Port of Port Hedland and its world-class iron ore export industry on our guided Twilight Industry Tour.
Travel through Port Hedland’s industrial areas as your local guide explains how iron ore from mines across the Pilbara is transported by some of the world’s longest and heaviest trains to the port. See massive iron ore stockpiles, rail operations, road trains and the infrastructure that keeps this enormous export industry moving.
Discover how the Port of Port Hedland operates and see huge bulk carriers, the shipping channel, tugboats and ship-loading facilities that enable hundreds of millions of tonnes of iron ore and other resources to be exported through the port each year.
As daylight fades across the harbour, see the port come alive with ships, trains and industrial operations. It’s a fascinating opportunity to experience the scale of Port Hedland’s iron ore industry and one of the world’s great resource export hubs.
