port design underway....

This from the Dow jones news this morning...

A group of junior iron ore miners in pilbara region said monday that a engineering company Sinclair knight Merz has been appointed to do a pre-feasability study into a 50million tonne export port at port headland.

" The port project was well on track and the "onus was on the owners of the pilbara railway lines to provide third party haulage on their networks.

" Its time the iron ore majors to cooperate with the emerging iron ore producers Because its in the best interest of the state to maximize utilization of the existing rail networks on a fair,transparent,and commercial basis,alliance chief Executive Justin Walawski said.