Western Tasmania Export Corridor Plan Department of State Growth Report IS106100-O-TS-RP-E4-0001 | 11 1 August 2016 RFT 2256 Repor t Depar tme nt of State Grow th Report Western Tasmania Export Corridor Plan Project no: IS106100 Document title: Report Document No.: IS106100-O-TS-RP-E4-0001 Revision: 11 Date: 1 August 2016 Client name: Department of State Growth Client no: RFT 2256 Project manager: Kathryn Easther Author: Steve Manders / Kathryn Easther File name: C:\users\keasther\appdata\local\projectwise\jacobs_anz_ie\dms18589\Western Tasmania Export Corridor Plan Report Final.docx Jacobs Australia Pty Limited 100 Melville St, Hobart 7000 GPO Box 1725 Hobart TAS 7001 Australia T +61 3 6221 3711 F +61 3 6221 3766 www.jacobs.com © Copyright 2016 Jacobs Australia Pty Limited. The concepts and information contained in this document are the property of Jacobs. 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Document history and status Revision Date Description By Review Approved 1 19 May 2015 Structure Steve State Growth Manders 2 23 June 2015 Revised structure SM State Growth 3 3 July 2015 With typical rail supply chain example and SM State Growth diagram 4 7 July 2015 With two company specific supply chain SM State Growth tables in App 5 18 August 2015 With supply chain capacity and company SM / Kathryn supply chains Easther 6 4 September 2015 Complete draft SM Chris Best, Andrew McConachy IS106100-O-TS-RP-E4-0001 i Report Revision Date Description By Review Approved 7 6 November 2015 Updated draft in response to State Growth SM / KE State Growth comments, new sections 5,4, 7 and reference to TasPorts 2043 8 16 December 2015 Draft final report SM / KE Andrew McConachy, State Growth 9 15 January 2016 Final Report KE / SM TasPorts, TasRail (certain relevant sections only) 10 22 February 2016 Final Report KE/ SM Andrew McConachy 11 1 August 2016 Final Report KE State Growth IS106100-O-TS-RP-E4-0001 ii Report Contents Executive Summary .........................................................................................................................................1 1. Introduction ..........................................................................................................................................4 1.1 Background ............................................................................................................................................4 1.2 Western Tasmania region freight task ....................................................................................................5 1.2.1 Mining and Minerals Industry ..................................................................................................................5 1.2.2 Agriculture..............................................................................................................................................5 1.2.3 Forestry .................................................................................................................................................6 1.3 Western Tasmania’s freight transport infrastructure ................................................................................6 1.3.1 Ports ......................................................................................................................................................6 1.3.2 Road ......................................................................................................................................................6 1.3.3 Rail ........................................................................................................................................................7 1.4 Western Tasmania supply chains ...........................................................................................................7 2. Objectives and approach .....................................................................................................................8 2.1 Objectives ..............................................................................................................................................8 2.2 Approach ...............................................................................................................................................8 3. Mineral export supply chains in Western Tasmania...........................................................................9 3.1 Mineral export supply chain principles ....................................................................................................9 3.2 Mineral supply chain types and components......................................................................................... 11 3.3 Mineral export supply chains in Western Tasmania .............................................................................. 11 3.4 Supply chain aggregation and coordination .......................................................................................... 15 3.4.1 Supply chain aggregation ..................................................................................................................... 15 3.4.2 Supply chain coordination .................................................................................................................... 15 3.5 Key observations and findings .............................................................................................................. 16 4. Capacity analysis of land transport infrastructure and port facilities ............................................. 17 4.1 Rail to Burnie port from Western Tasmania .......................................................................................... 17 4.1.1 Rail infrastructure ................................................................................................................................. 17 4.1.2 Current situation ................................................................................................................................... 18 4.1.3 Rail capacity ........................................................................................................................................ 19 4.1.4 Key observations and findings – rail transport ....................................................................................... 20 4.2 Roads to Burnie port from Western Tasmania ...................................................................................... 21 4.2.1 Key observations and findings – road transport .................................................................................... 21 4.3 Northern Tasmanian port facilities ........................................................................................................ 22 4.3.1 Overview.............................................................................................................................................. 22 4.3.2 Burnie port ........................................................................................................................................... 22 4.3.3 Summary of Capacity ........................................................................................................................... 25 4.3.4 Port Latta ............................................................................................................................................. 27 4.3.5 Key observations and findings - port facilities ....................................................................................... 28 5. Demand for supply chain capacity from Western Tasmanian mineral producers .......................... 29 5.1 Future freight demand scenarios approach ........................................................................................... 29 5.2 Implications for transport and logistics infrastructure and facilities ......................................................... 32 IS106100-O-TS-RP-E4-0001 iii Report 6. Actions to plan for increasing mineral supply chain capacity and efficiency in the short term .... 33 6.1 Additional supply chain capacity at Burnie port – to accommodate forecast scenario growth ................. 33 6.2 Improving the efficiency of supply chain operations – landside.............................................................. 33 7. Longer term opportunities for efficiency improvement and capacity increase .............................. 34 7.1 Development and management of mineral and other facilities at Burnie Port ........................................ 34 7.1.1 Berths and storage facilities ................................................................................................................. 34 7.1.2 Mineral storage at Burnie port .............................................................................................................