GHD and Juturna Consulting put together a report for the Vic Gov to base it's future infrastructure plans for the Port of Geelong.
GHD - With over 70 employees across Gippsland, our clients benefit from our local knowledge and experience coupled with our ability to draw on skills and resources from over 700 staff in Victoria and more than 6000 worldwide.
Juturna Consulting - Juturna is a highly-credentialed adviser in this field: it plays a lead role advising government bodies such as Infrastructure Australia and the National Transport Commission as well as Australia’s State and Federal Transport Ministries and Treasuries and many other industry and community groups on road infrastructure and linked rail and port reforms. Juturna’s economic modelling and public policy advisory work is of the highest quality.
This report documents the findings of GHD and Juturna Consulting following their engagement to the City of Greater Geelong (COGG) to assist with the development of a Strategic Assessment for the Geelong Port and Land Freight Infrastructure Plan.
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Emerging Trade Opportunities – these are trades that, based on feedback from interested parties, have realistic prospects for future location (either whole or in part) at the Port of Geelong that can deliver new lines of trade growth to the Port-City These trades are summarised below. They have been quantified, and their future likelihoods have been assessed to inform the economic impact analysis for the Port that follows in the next chapter:
Emerging Trade Opportunities
Exports
• Mineral sands • Brown coal • Black coal • Iron ore • Grain (including new supplies and existing PoM share) • Soya Bean Meal / Oil • Copper concentrate • General cargo (steel, construction products etc) • Pulp • Containers – Tasmanian based service • Containers – coastal shipping service to Hastings • Bio fuels
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Export Prospects
Brown Coal - Mantle Mining - Bacchus Marsh export to India - Rail - Medium likelihood - 7.5 to 10 mill tpa
Brown Coal - Mantle Mining - Latrobe Valley - medium likelihood - 2.5 to 3 mill tpa
From this report prepared for and endorsed by the Vic Gov, from 2 of the biggest and best qualified consultants, it appears obvious to me that IK has Mantle Mining well and truly on the radar of the people who matter.
Combine that with our recent membership of BCIA (brown coal innovation australia) and the many many linked Exergen/Mantle articles from these threads over the past couple of years and you will see that Mantle is very well positioned for the upcoming brown coal Vic Pilbara scenario that should begin to unfold after the election.
http://www.bcinnovation.com.au/2013Newsletter0712
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