The Cowboys Are Our Team a New Community Partnership Will See Cowboys Legends Visiting Our Region in 2017

The Cowboys are our team A new community partnership will see Cowboys legends visiting our region in 2017

Paving the way forward Waterway report card Dust study at Hay Point A $2.3 million Harbour Road East project Working together to help the region A recent scientific study shows positive to streamline the Port of Mackay’s better understand the health of our results for air quality busiest intersection is now complete local waterways nqbp.com.au TRADE FACILITATION Upgraded road paves the way forward A major infrastructure upgrade at the Port of Mackay has set a smooth road ahead for increased trade. At North Queensland Bulk Ports, we are proud of the role we play in the community and the State’s The $2.3 million Harbour Road East project involved economy. streamlining the port’s busiest intersection and constructing a new laydown area. COWBOYS LEGENDS BRENT TATE AND MATT BOWEN WITH ST JOSEPH’S CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS. We facilitate global trade for a wide range of bulk commodities, The road improvements rounded off a great year of leading the sustainable development of our ports and building enhancements in 2016, making the port more attractive prosperity for all Queenslanders. for new customers and positioning it for growth in 2017 These ports, which include not just Mackay and Hay Point, but and beyond. PORT COMMUNITIES also Abbot Point and Weipa are gateways for more than half of EPOCA’s James Vazquez says the project will be Queensland’s trade by tonnage every year. remembered as a good local achievement for their Whether it be the economic contribution we make together with business. our customers through trade; the community partnerships we “As a company who has been in Mackay for more than 40 Cowboys are our team build; or the spectacular environment we actively and closely years it’s always great to be involved in these projects that communities – our schools,” says Mr safeguard, one of our values is to lead the way. When it comes to putting the north support ongoing development.” Queensland community first, NQBP Tonner. In this edition, we are pleased to share some recent highlights The upgrade was part of the State Government’s and the North Queensland Cowboys “If we can help students stay engaged in from our key community and environmental programs. Accelerated Works Program and is an example of how are on the same side. learning and encourage them to be healthy One of the ways we are supporting our region is through NQBP is working to actively facilitate trade and encourage The two proud regional Queensland and active, we’re on the way to ensuring a new partnership with the North Queensland Cowboys. growth in the region. organisations launched a community-based prosperous and sustainable regional Our organisations are joining together under a three-year communities for the future. community partnership which features a program that reaches partnership late last year, centred on their “In addition to the school visits, the across all of our port communities. shared vision to see communities thrive even during challenging times. Cowboys legends and development staff will You can read more about our partnership on page 3. Don’t 1km 2sets also conduct children’s training sessions.” OF CONCRETE OF OBSOLETE TRAIN forget to also follow NQBP on Facebook, where you’ll be able The partnership will see Cowboys legends KERBING REUSED TRACKS REMOVED AND Brent and Matt have already delighted keep track of the Cowboy greats and our local school students Brent Tate and Matt Bowen make a number AS LAYDOWN BASE RECYCLED and inspired kids at four schools in the in 2017. of visits to the port communities of Mackay, Sarina, Bowen and Weipa during 2017. Mackay area including St Joseph’s Catholic To learn more about our local environment, check out page 5, Primary School, Beaconsfield State School, which features information about our comprehensive seagrass The former players will present to hundreds of local children and teach them the Andergrove State School and MacKillop monitoring program – a critical indicator of waterway health. 3kilometres Catholic Primary School. OF LINEMARKING PAINTED importance of teamwork and school This will be a year of delivery for NQBP and I look forward to LOCAL JOBS attendance. “What we saw at these schools is that the keeping you up to date with the latest from your port. DURING Cowboys CEO Greg Tonner says the Cowboys have an ability to affect kids and CONSTRUCTION partnership with NQBP is like a great create social change. To see the looks on COWBOYS MASCOT BOOTS WITH JOEY AND CHRISTINA BROWN. 17 26 their faces and to hear how they respond is Steve Lewis NEW ENERGY- friendship. CEO, NORTH QUEENSLAND BULK PORTS EFFICIENT LED TONNES very rewarding,” says Mr Tonner. OF “Together we are working with the very STREET LIGHTS institutions that lie at the heart of NQ INSTALLED 1200ASPHALT

2 3 ENVIRONMENT

Report card shows NEW TRADE TO COME OUT IN THE WASH some positive results A new wash-down facility and quarantine approved premises at the Port of Mackay is Every six weeks environmental resources – water. Whether it be our helping boost trade to the region. rivers or our beautiful marine area. scientists from James Cook Northern Stevedoring Services (NSS) has installed University are taking water “The latest report shows the majority of the federally certified facility, which means samples across the region on areas receiving moderate scores (C). A mining equipment and other cargo requiring behalf of NQBP, as part of a number of areas were flagged as poor special treatment for quarantine purposes can long running commitment to (D), particularly freshwater basins. be offloaded and processed through the Port of Mackay. monitor the quality of our local “The offshore marine zones continue to waterways. score a good (B) overall. For the region’s businesses, the facility is an upgrade to the level of services available at the The comprehensive monitoring “Importantly, the research showed the port and will see it become more strategically program (which also looks at seagrass number of juvenile coral increased in important to the local resource sector. and coral health), combined with the offshore marine zone, and this is a The first cargo to be put through the facility was input from technical experts and an positive indicator for Reef health. 8,000 freight tonnes of mining equipment on annual grant of $100,000 is NQBP’s “The scores indicate the current behalf of Theiss. contribution to the Mackay-Whitsunday state of our waterways but most Healthy Rivers to Reef Partnership The new services from NSS complement a range importantly they can now be used of works and initiatives NQBP is pursuing to Annual Waterway Health Report Card. to inform management action. They actively attract additional trade through the Port Partnership’s Chair Di Tarte says the show us where changes need to of Mackay. report card helps the community occur to improve our regional water better understand the health of our quality, including some areas that waterways. require immediate attention, funding or DUST STUDY AT “It shows us what is happening behind resources,” she said. PORT OF HAY POINT the scenes with the health of one of Download the report card, Microscopic pieces of insects or plants make the region’s most important natural healthyriverstoreef.org.au. up most of the dust particles at a number of community monitoring sites at Hay Point and Mackay. A recent study into the sources of dust in the community, found the coal export terminals at the Port of Hay Point were not a significant contributor to respirable dust and related health issues. Community sample sites recorded no exceedances of National Ambient Air Quality Standards for the duration of the 15-month sample period – in fact, they were all well below. The study collected three different samples sizes of dust. Between 75-95% of the dust at community testing sites were made up of insect or plant matter. The black colour of the dust is made up of soil, soot, mould, diesel particulates and coal. The full report has been presented to our Hay Point NQBP’S SENIOR ENVIRONMENTAL COORDINATOR NIKKI STOKES (SECOND LEFT) WITH TECHNICAL Community Reference Group. The Executive WORKING GROUP MEMBERS EMMA CARLOS, DR JUDITH WAKE AND CARL MITCHELL. Summary is also available on our website.

4 5 Inside the Port of Mackay

Mt Bassett Quarry AQIS Washdown Facility (NSS) Fuel Tanks Fuel Tanks Molasses Bladder Laydown Area Sugar Sheds Refined Sugar Laydown Area Grain Terminal Terminal Mackay Marina Laydown Area Middle Breakwater Wharf 3 Laydown Area molasses Wharf 5 Wharf 1 raw sugar Wharf 4 grain petroleum & ethanol petroleum refined sugar petroleum tallow scrap metal Southern Breakwater break bulk break bulk general cargo fertiliser heavy-lift cargo magnetite break bulk general cargo Northern Breakwater

MAJOR PORT USERS FUEL IMPORT SCRAP METAL REFINED x TERMINAL x EXPORT x SUGAR EXPORT Fuel Sugar Grain 5 OPERATORS 2 OPERATORS 1 OPERATOR • BP • Sugar Australia • Graincorp RAW SUGAR FERTILISER ETHANOL • Pioneer Energy • QSL Tallow EXPORT IMPORT EXPORT x x x • Puma Energy • Mackay Sugar • Thomas Borthwick & Sons SHEDS OPERATORS OPERATOR 4 2 1 Scrap Metal • Caltex Magnetite MAGNETITE GRAIN x IMPORT x EXPORT • Viva Energy • Tasmania Mines • OneSteel Recycling 2 OPERATORS 1 OPERATOR • Wilmar Bioethanol • Martin & Robson • Sims Metal

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