{{more citations needed|date=October 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2022}} {{Use Australian English|date=March 2013}} {{Infobox Australian place | type = other | name = Port Giles | state = sa | city = Coobowie | image = Port Giles silos.jpg | caption = Grain silos at Port Giles | coordinates = {{coord|35.023105 |S|137.759314|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | coord_ref = <ref name="LMV">{{cite web|title=Search result for 'Port Giles, Locu' with the following datasets selected - 'Suburbs and Localities', 'Government Towns' and 'Gazetteer'|url=http://location.sa.gov.au/viewer/?map=hybrid&x=137.78282&y=-35.02422&z=13&uids=19,115,105&pinx=137.760690&piny=-35.021660&pinTitle=Location&pinText=Port+Giles,+Locu |website=Location SA Map Viewer|publisher=South Australian Government|access-date=26 April 2018}}</ref> | pushpin_label_position = | established = 28 May 1970 | established_footnotes = <ref name="SAGG-1970">{{cite web |last1=Rodda |first1=W. Allen |title=HARBORS ACT, 1936-1969: NOTICE OF DECLARATION OF PORT FACILITIES—PORT GILES |url=http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/sa_gazette/1970/24/1977.pdf |website=The South Australian Government Gazette |publisher=The Government of South Australia |access-date=7 May 2019 |page=1977 |date=28 May 1970}}</ref> | dist1 = 3 | dir1 = south | location1= Town of Wool Bay }} '''Port Giles''' is a port on Yorke Peninsula in the Australian state of South Australia located in the gazetted locality of Coobowie between the towns of Stansbury and Edithburgh.<ref name="LMV"/>
Port Giles a port facility consisting of a large jetty equipped for bulk handling of grain which is operated by Flinders Ports,<ref>{{cite web|title=Port Giles|url=http://www.flindersports.com.au/portfacilities7.html|publisher=Flinders Ports|access-date=30 October 2014}}</ref> and a similarly large grain storage facility operated by Viterra. It was opened by the then Premier of South Australia, Steele Hall in 1970, and led to the closure of many of the smaller ports on the peninsula. Port Giles can handle Panamax size ships or larger.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Spencer Ports Group |title=PORT BONYTHON BULK COMMODITIES EXPORT FACILITY, A Submission to Infrastructure Australia for the National Infrastructure Priority List |url=http://www.infrastructureaustralia.gov.au/public_submissions/published/files/200_spencerportsgroup_SUB.pdf |access-date=8 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140211215653/http://www.infrastructureaustralia.gov.au/public_submissions/published/files/200_spencerportsgroup_SUB.pdf |archive-date=11 February 2014 |pages=9 + 10 |date=15 October 2008 |quote=Of the eight South Australian ports, only Whyalla, Port Lincoln and Port Giles are capable of berthing ships of Panamax size or larger and the latter two of these are both dedicated grain loading ports}}</ref>
Port Giles was purposely built to be able to handle bulk grain, and load it onto larger modern ships. Many of the other ports were not deep enough for larger ships, and could only be serviced by small ketches and coastal steamships. They only handled grain in bags, not in bulk.
The port is occasionally open for keen anglers to catch fish from the jetty, which provides habitat for multiple species.
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