Road Haulage Discussion, page-8

		Ashburton Port	Dampier Port	Balla Balla	Port Headland	Anketell Port
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2	Operational	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Don’t know
3	Distance from PIOP	400+ ?	213	270?	400+ ?	258
4	Experience in IO handling	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Don’t know
5	Spare capacity for IO or can extend capacity for PIOP IO	Possibly	Possibly	Green field.Nothing developed. Was planned to handle 50mtpa.	Possibly not	Don’t know
6	Vessel capacity	Large	Large	Nothing now but barge to ship planned?	Large	Don’t know
7	Proven vessel loading capability	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Don’t know
8	Access roads	Yes	Yes	Poor	Yes	Yes
9	Financially sound	Yes	Yes	Don’t think so?	Yes	Don’t know
10	Capable of getting required funding	Probably	Probably	Unlikely?	Possibly	Don’t know
11	Possible conflicts of interest for Flinders shareholders	No	No	Yes	No	No
12	Up to date transparency and website	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Don’t know
13	Cost per t Including haulage	Not know	Not know	Not known	Not known	Not known
14	Ability to meet early lead time to handle PIOP timelines for haulage	Probably yes???	Probably yes if they have the capacity???	Unlikely???	Probably no???	Don’t know
15	Ability to meet expansion requirements to 15mtpa	Don’t know	Don’t know	Yes, subject to finance?	Maybe no?	Don’t know
16	Ability to meet expansion requirements of 25mtpa plus if required	Don’t know	Don’t know	Yes, subject to finance?	Maybe no?	Don’t know

Thanks Damian. I have updated the spreadsheet and added a column for Anketell plus some more criteria. I don’t know if Anketell is a viable port or not so there are many “Don’t knows” in the Anketell column. Happy to get more info and update if anyone has the info or wants to do some research.