The Pilbara Port Authority (PPA) may support develop of a new iron ore berth at Port Hedland in Western Australia as it pushes to increase export capacity by more than 100 million tonnes a year.
PPA chairman Ken Pettit said the option of calling for expressions of interest was open to the authority in the absence of any current proposals to develop one of two berths set aside for junior miners on the western side of South West Creek in the inner harbour.
Mr Pettit confirmed Mineral Resources had expressed interest in developing one of the berths, but the other was up for grabs in the eyes of the board.
He said the PPA board considered a long-stalled proposal from Atlas Iron-controlled North West Infrastructure (NWI) to develop both berths as defunct and had done so for a number of years.
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