{"id":2323,"date":"2016-05-09T16:18:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T15:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport-congress\/2016\/05\/09\/wa-lobby-for-fremantle-privatisation\/"},"modified":"2016-05-09T16:18:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T15:18:00","slug":"wa-lobby-for-fremantle-privatisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/news\/oceania\/wa-lobby-for-fremantle-privatisation\/","title":{"rendered":"WA lobby for Fremantle privatisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Government\u2019s alliance partner, National, is opposed to the plan and the state Treasurer Mike Nahan has been trying to win over key lobby groups in a bid to convince National to turn its thinking around.<\/p>\n<p>He said Fremantle inner harbour could triple in capacity to more than two million containers a year \u2013 rejecting opponents\u2019 suggestions that container traffic should be capped or moved to a port development at Kwinana, to the south of Fremantle.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Nahan\u2019s argument is that because of this potential growth in the inner harbour, it will be 25 years before expansion into an outer harbour is needed. He said moving to Kwinana before Fremantle is at full capacity would add costs to port users and the economy.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the Government\u2019s preference is to privatise Fremantle, giving the winning bidder first right to develop the outer harbour. The timing of this would be agreed between the bidder and the State.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Nahan has given assurances to exporters that pricing and access will be safeguarded in any privatisation process.<br \/>Part of the proceeds could then develop a new live export facility at Kwinana, which would be attractive to farmer exporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Western Australian Government is pitching the state\u2019s business and exporter lobby in a bid to win support for privatising the port of Fremantle.<\/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":[23],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-2323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oceania"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2323"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=2323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}