Driven by a seemingly insatiable international requirement for raw materials, Australia's major bulk handling ports are continuing to focus on developing bigger and better facilities, which seem certain to be required regardless of fluctuations in the supply and demand cycle.
Australia boasts some of the world's biggest iron ore and coal producers, as well as a host of leaders in bauxite, nickel, alumina, salt, mineral sands and metal ores. At the same time the nation is one of the biggest grain growers and exporters. Ports such as Dampier, Port Hedland, Gladstone, Hay Point and Newcastle, and to a lesser extent Port Kembla, Esperance, Geraldton, Kwinana, Port Adelaide, Port Lincoln, Portland, Geelong, Brisbane, Townsville and Bunbury are world-scale handlers of one or more bulk products. Almost all of them are currently engaged in expansion programmes, either in their own right or under the auspices of major tenants or users....
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Approx 2080 words from Bulk Materials International, September/October 2001,
page 13.
