A ship blocked by protesters at a Melbourne port is due to arrive in Sydney before travelling further up the eastern coast to Brisbane, Al Jazeera reports.

Last week, dozens of people attempted to stop the ZIM Ganges container ship from reaching the Port of Melbourne, with police eventually deploying pepper spray to break up the blockade.

Port Melbourne handles about 8,850 containers a day and is Australia’s largest commercial port. The protests had “effectively halted operations” for almost four days, the Victorian International Container Terminal (VICT) said in a press release after the police ended the picket, according to Al Jazeera.