Freight Investment Opportunities
1. There is potential for public and/or private investments in the following freight rail initiatives identified by industry: • Eastern Goldfields Route capacity expansion to address current constraints on WA’s busiest rail line. • Capacity expansion from Kalgoorlie to Esperance to meet demand on WA’s second busiest rail line. • Mundijong to Brookton to address capacity constraints. • Upgrade and extension to Greenbushes to address spodumene freight demand. • Geraldton to Wiluna to improve productivity of inland mines. • Staged extension from Geraldton to Carnarvon and then to the Pilbara to unlock productivity, cost of living and development capacity that can sustain industrial in northern WA. 2. As the freight and regional industrial network grows there is an associated opportunity to provide intermodal facilities to facilitate transfers between freight modes including: • Canning – empty containers and WA food hub logistics centre. • Mundijong – southern and eastern WA rail, road freight and Mundijong industrial development intermodal node. • Rockingham / Kwinana – dock-side Westport intermodal terminal. • Bullsbrook - Muchea – northern corridor rail, road freight and Bullsbrook - Muchea industrial development intermodal node. • Bunbury / Waterloo – south west road, rail, Port of Bunbury and industrial precincts intermodal terminal. • Northam (Avon Industrial Park) and Brookton – to optimise agricultural rail freight movement west across the Darling Scarp and facilitate the growth value added processing. • Kalgoorlie – inland freight hub servicing West-East national freight and Goldfields- Esperance Road, rail and industry precincts. 3. Public and/or private investment in additional port capacity and freight handling capabilities to meet growing and diversifying demand for regional import and export services, including general cargo, last mile road and rail capacity and bulk goods. 4. There is an opportunity to harness growing air passenger numbers to Albany, Busselton, Exmouth and Broome to provide a refrigerated freight handling and storage service.
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