Who owns fremantle port

If the sale was stalled, Mr Barnett said he would take it to the next election. Labor seems to be hedging its bets with no publicly declared position on the sale of the port.

Nationals leader Terry Redman previously supported the sale. His change of heart comes after likely pressure from provincial backbenchers who still recall the sale of the WA government-owned country rail network to Brookfield, a global infrastructure company based in Canada.

That left grain farmers with failing infrastructure and rising costs to get their grain to global markets. Some of those fears were also played out in the proposed takeover of Asciano where Brookfield intended to have control over Pacific National, a rail provider and part of Asciano, which hauls grain to ports on the Australian eastern seaboard. They scale ships the size of buildings to keep goods flowing through one of Australia's biggest shipping hubs.

While his partner drives the pilot transfer vessel, Doug Watson is tasked with wrangling the ladder. Day and night, whenever a ship arrives in the waters off Fremantle Port, a local pilot takes control of the vessel.

A ship's master takes a vessel across oceans, but a pilot knows the local waterways like the back of their hand. So they take the ship the final step into port, safely manoeuvring it without damaging vital state infrastructure.

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority sets certain standards for the ladders and the transfer process. It is manned by two vessel traffic service officers VTSOs , 24 hours a day, days of the year. Mr Rewega has worked in the tower for six years, but he was born in Port Hedland and cut his teeth working on oil rigs and drill ships. At the ground level, getting those "beasts" safely to a berth are port services officers PSOs like Marlee Jones. The ships are referred to as ROROs — short for roll-on, roll-off — and can shift hundreds of cars in a few hours.

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By Sector. Other Sectors. By Country. View All Industry Reports. Australia Company Profiles. The government lost its triple A credit rating in and has been slow to sell assets announced a year ago, including Port Hedland iron ore export terminal Utah Point, the Perth Market Authority, Kwinana Bulk Terminal and large land holdings. Of the 20 property sites flagged for sale, just two have been sold.

In Treasury we had no one who has ever been involved in asset sales," he said. It's taken us six months to do that. We have identified some assets for sale. The government will appoint more financial advisers to assist on the swelling asset sales program. The government plans to sell Fremantle Port with a year lease.