{"id":4301,"date":"2015-11-16T09:24:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T09:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2015\/11\/16\/concerns-on-darwins-chinese-concession\/"},"modified":"2015-11-16T09:24:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T09:24:00","slug":"concerns-on-darwins-chinese-concession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2015\/11\/16\/concerns-on-darwins-chinese-concession\/","title":{"rendered":"Concerns on Darwin\u2019s Chinese concession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rights have gone to Landbridge Group, a privately-owned company that operates a 30m tonne per annum port in North Haizhou Bay, between Beijing and Shanghai.<\/p>\n<p>Landbridge Infrastructure Australia says the group intends to grow trade between Australia and Asia.<\/p>\n<p>It is committing an initial A$35m of investment expenditure over the first five years, and anticipates over A$200m of capital expenditure in the next 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>The decision by the Northern Territory government has been described by Chief Minister Adam Giles as a chance for growth of the port and the economy, with the government retaining rights over stevedore licensing and key operating standards.<\/p>\n<p>Agriculture lobby groups, business leaders and shipping lines have welcomed the deal, although a note of caution was sounded by ANL Container Line which said there needs to be adequate protections for port users, and the final details were awaited with interest.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Maritime Union of Australia is disappointed because it sees no protections for the employment of port workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the decision to award Darwin Port\u2019s operational rights to a Chinese company after a bidding process has been largely welcomed, there has been concern at seeing the finer details of the agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-4301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oceania"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4301"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=4301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}