Road Haulage Discussion, page-6

		Ashburton Port	Dampier Port	Balla Balla	Port Headland
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2	Operational	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
3	Distance from PIOP	400+ ?	220?	280?	400+ ?
4	Experience in IO handling	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
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
6	Vessel capacity	Large	Large	Nothing but barge to ship planned	Large
7	Proven vessel loading capability	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
8	Access roads	Yes	Yes	Poor	Yes
9	Financially sound	Yes	Yes	Don’t think so	Yes
10	Capable of getting required funding	Probably	Probably	Unlikely?	Possibly
11	Possible conflicts of interest for Flinders shareholders	No	No	Yes	No
12	Up to date transparency and website	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
13	Cost per t Including haulage	Not know	Not know	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???

A draft matrix that may help. Note that much of the info I have added will be wrong so I welcome comments and corrections to the contents.