Port of Melbourne leased

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The Australian State of Victoria's Andrews Labour Government has leased the Port of Melbourne for more than A$9.7B, in line with an election...

Oz ports’ returns poor

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An Infrastructure Australia (IA) report has raised questions about the capacity of the nation’s ports to fund expansion projects....

PD Ports plc up for sale

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Babcock & Brown Infrastructure has hired Royal Bank of Scotland and Dresdner Kleinwort to sell UK ports operator PD Ports...

Sydney budget boost

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Sydney Ports Corporation (SPC)’s battle to keep the neighbouring ports of Newcastle and Port Kembla from poaching its container traffic ha...

Oz box volumes on the up

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Box volumes at Australia's five mainland container ports were 10 percent higher in the six months January-June 2002 compared to the same per...

Sydney recovers

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Sydney has again passed the 1 mill TEU per annum mark, with preliminary 2001-2002 figures showing last year's post-Olympic Games hangover ha...

…big bucks for WA ports

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The Western Australian government is pouring big money into the state's port infrastructure, highlighted by a A$100 mill commitment to deepe...

Trade records down under

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The Ports Corporation of South Australia, which is in the process of being privatised by the state government, has reported new tonnage reco...

Botany rail rise

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Despite well-catalogued operational and capacity difficulties, a record 190,000 TEU was moved by rail through Sydney's Port Botany in the ye...

SA to split port land, business

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More than a year after the South Australian government decided to proceed with a trade sale of Ports Corp SA (see WorldCargo News, May 1999,...

NW Oz boom continues

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Ports in the north west of Western Australia are looking forward to a period of major expansion as a number of significant resource projects...

Records all round

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Most Queensland ports set new throughput records during the 1998-99 financial year, according to the recently released government publicatio...

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