Calls for Gladstone quarantine solution amid fears seafarers will be left high and dry TueTuesday 9 The Port of Gladstone is Queensland's largest multi-commodity port. ( Share Print text only Cancel Time is running out for a quarantine facility to be set up on central Queensland coast ahead of the arrival of a ship full of seafarers who must come ashore. Key points: By mid-March a decision will be made on a quarantine facility in Gladstone for seafarers Without a facility, ships carrying timber can't be fumigated and seafarers will have to be quarantined in hospital Gladstone harbourmaster John Fallon says the government is cutting it fine in finding a solution