Australian Rail Track Corporation spending US$50m taking bottlenecks out of Hunter Valley rail network, including key separation of coal and commuter rail lines at Sandgate near Kooragang Island terminal Third Newcastle terminal to be built on 140 hectare site able to handle up to 30m tons in four to five years time. Bidders to operate are:<\/p>\n
Newcastle Coal Infrastructure Group comprising Excel Coal, Centennial Coal, BHP Billiton and others; Port Waratah Coal Services, the established terminal in which Rio Tinto is majority shareholder DALRYMPLE BAY AND ABBOT POINT Work to lift Dalrymple Bay capacity from 45m tons to 60m tons by 2006 already underway Longer term plan to spend US$457m to lift capacity to almost 100m tons Fast-tracking of plan to upgrade nearby Abbot Point from 15m tons to 25m tons by 2008 Acceleration of US$457m plan to build 74km “missing link” in northern Queensland to connect Goonyella coalfield rails with those on Newlands coalfield. Would give coal majors Rio Tinto and Anglo-American flexibility to ship through either Abbot Point or Dalrymple Bay depending on conditions GLADSTONE Completed last expansion to 42m tons only last year but will start US$127m project in early 2006 to lift capacity of RG Tanna terminal to 54m tons, and then 62m tons ? or double what it was shipping three years ago.<\/p>\n
Together with Barney Point terminal, total port capacity will be over 70m tons Plans for completely new terminal at Wiggins Island, west of RG Tanna terminal, with US$305m project to build 20m ton capacity facility under consideration Decision to be taken on whether to operate storage with bulldozers or more capitalintensive stacker-reclaimer technology<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEWCASTLE Current capacity of Port Waratah Coal Services: 89m tons. Now spending US$130m to raise capacity to 102m tons by 2007 and subsequently to 120m tons.<\/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":[55],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-6952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oceania"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6952"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=6952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}