Port of Townsville has awarded a $1.2 million repair and maintenance contract to Casa Projects for the public jetty in Lucinda. The Little Lucinda Jetty sits next to the sugar terminal at Lucinda Port and is a popular site for fishing and recreational activities. The maintenance project comes after AECOM last year conducted an Inshore Wharf Structural Inspection at Lucinda and produced arep...
Annual maintenance dredging will kick off at Weipa in Far North Queensland from early May with a COVID-19 control program in place. North Queensland Bulk Ports Corporation (NQBP) chief executive officer Nicolas Fertin said the dredge vessel TSHD Brisbane was due to begin work at the Port of Weipa next month. Dredging will also be completed at Amrun on behalf of Rio Tinto, with the whole pr...
Adani’s Abbot Point Operations near Bowen has set a new record for coal shipped through Australia’s most northerly coal port in a 12 month period. Adani Infrastructure chief executive officer Trista Brohier said a total of 32,036,065 tonnes of coal from Queensland mines passed through the Port of Abbot Point in the 12 months to the end of March – breaking the previous record by 3.2 m...
Townsville was the first port of call this week for a new 199m vessel out of Japan. The car carrier Niagara Highway arrived in port on Wednesday on its first voyage from the ship yard in Yokohama, Japan, unloading 250 motor vehicles over multi-cargo Berth 4. Constructed by Imabari Shipbuilding Co, Niagara Highway sets a new standard in the K Line fleet. Offering high adaptability with v...
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