Sea Highway

For the former designation along the Atlantic Seaboard, see Ocean Highway.
For the former state highway in New Jersey created in 1909, see Ocean Highway (New Jersey).

A container ship in the Port of Melbourne

The Sea Highway is an Australian colloquialism and figurative shipping route used to describe the sea lines of communication between the state of Victoria on the Australian mainland and island state of Tasmania across the Bass Strait.

Since the mid-1970s, there have been measures taken by the Australian Government to formalise and integrate the Sea Highway into the nation's National Highway network as a means to ensure equal transport opportunities and economic integration across the entire country.[1][2]

  1. ^ National Sea Highway Committee (30 June 1999), Tasmanian State Government has an unprecedented opportunity to cost a national highway connection to Tasmania, retrieved 2 August 2024
  2. ^ "Call made for Tasmanian sea highway", Australasian Business Intelligence, Comtex, 12 February 2008, ISSN 1320-6680