Botany Bay and Catchment Alliance

The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Transport and Regional Services has been meeting, accepting submissions, conducting site visits and hearings for over 2 years.  The report makes a number of recommendations and included amongst them are recommendations affecting Port Kembla and Port Newcastle:

Committee Assessment:  3.324 : Almost every port appearing in this Inquiry is having difficulties handling that growth. ….3.325: The Committee believes that the infrastructure projects discussed in this chapter are so important to that task that, that they should be assigned a special priority in funding.  The projects identified for NSW are:

• A multi-purpose terminal in Newcastle
• The Maldon-Dombarton rail link
• The removal or reduction of the curfew restrictions at Port Kembla

The full report can be viewed and/or downloaded at:

http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/trs/networks/report.htm 

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