13/03/2019 What is Westport? Two-year planning project to formulate - PDF document

13/03/2019 What is Westport? • Two-year planning project to formulate Fremantle a strategy to meet freight transport, trade and logistics’ needs for Perth and the South West for the next 50-100 years. • Look to optimise existing land and infrastructure while identifying future Kwinana/ requirements. Cockburn Sound • Environment and sustainability are Westport: planning for priorities. Perth’s future freight • Aim to maximise economic growth for Bunbury the State. • Collaborate with stakeholders and Nicole Lockwood undertake extensive community Independent Chair, Westport Taskforce consultation. The time is right… to plan Westport: What we have found so far Stage 1 progress report | Released in December 2018 • Perth’s population is predicted to double around mid-century; current infrastructure will not meet Stage 1 work stream Contents: long-term demand for freight. findings: • Background and project progress • Plan properly now, build when required. 1. Trade task • Westport’s eight strategic options 2. Port capability • Attract investment with a robust proposal that provides certainty for investors – as well as • What problems are we trying to 3. Land use and utilities solve and what opportunities are industry, government and local residents. infrastructure we trying to capture? 4. Preliminary environmental • Required land can be reserved. • Stakeholder consultation and and social assessment engagement • Flexibility to accommodate emerging or yet-to- 5. Supply chain be-created industries. Westport’s e ight strategic options Main findings from Stage 1 Fremantle Port: • Could handle up to 2.1 million TEU of containers (770,000 TEU currently); 6. Fremantle and Kwinana 1. Base Case • Capacity is limited by land (hemmed in by residential) and transport constraints (one main road in, 4. De-industrialise Current situation Ports both have containers freight rail constrained by a single-line bridge). Fremantle Port and for the long-term Kwinana Port: move all containers to 2. Optimise Fremantle Port • Five bulk jetties currently but no containers. Two public jetties nearing capacity – infrastructure Kwinana Port ASAP and transition containers to upgrades are needed; 7. Fremantle and Bunbury Kwinana Port over time • A greenfields container port development could possibly handle up to 6 million TEU; (staged approach) Ports both have containers • Freight rail is close to capacity; modifications are required. Additional road freight route required; 5. De-industrialise for the long-term • Vacant land nearby suitable for an intermodal terminal; 3. Optimise Fremantle Port Fremantle Port and • Major marine and terrestrial environmental and social considerations. and transition containers to move all containers to Bunbury Port over time Bunbury Port ASAP 8. Only Fremantle Port Bunbury Port: • (staged approach); no Has the potential to handle containers (if demand warrants), bulk, breakbulk, general cargo and has containers for the long- passengers; containers in Kwinana term • Abundance of vacant port-owned and industrial land nearby; • Constrained by distance from Perth, road and rail links. 1

13/03/2019 Option 1: Option 2: Optimise Fremantle and transition The current situation containers to Kwinana over time Fremantle Step 1: Fremantle Step 3: Move all Base Case Base Case Step 2: Build container Inner Harbour bulk to Kwinana or containers to port at Kwinana and Bunbury Kwinana share with Fremantle Trade Legend Fremantle Fremantle Fremantle Fremantle Fremantle Containers Kwinana Outer Harbour Kwinana Kwinana Kwinana Kwinana Kwinana Bulk Passenger Vessels Bunbury Harbour Bunbury Bunbury Bunbury Bunbury Bunbury Option 3: Optimise Fremantle and transition Option 4: De-industrialise Fremantle and move all containers to Bunbury over time containers to Kwinana ASAP Base Case Step 1: Fremantle Step 2: Build container Step 3: Move all Base Case Fremantle bulk to Move all containers bulk to Kwinana or port at Bunbury and containers to Kwinana or Bunbury to Kwinana Bunbury share with Fremantle Bunbury Fremantle Fremantle Fremantle Fremantle Fremantle Fremantle Fremantle Kwinana Kwinana Kwinana Kwinana Kwinana Kwinana Kwinana Bunbury Bunbury Bunbury Bunbury Bunbury Bunbury Bunbury Option 5: De-industrialise Fremantle and move all Option 6: Fremantle and Kwinana both have containers to Bunbury ASAP containers for the long-term Base Case Step 1: Fremantle bulk Step 2: Move all Base Case Step 1: Fremantle bulk Step 2: Build container port to Kwinana or Bunbury containers to Bunbury to Kwinana or Bunbury at Kwinana and share with Fremantle Fremantle Fremantle Fremantle Fremantle Fremantle Fremantle Kwinana Kwinana Kwinana Kwinana Kwinana Kwinana Bunbury Bunbury Bunbury Bunbury Bunbury Bunbury 2

13/03/2019 Option 8: Only Fremantle has Option 7: Fremantle and Bunbury both have containers for the long-term containers for the long-term Step 2: Build container port at Base Case Step 1: Fremantle bulk Base Case Step 1: Fremantle bulk to Bunbury and share with to Kwinana or Bunbury Kwinana or Bunbury Fremantle Fremantle Fremantle Fremantle Fremantle Fremantle Kwinana Kwinana Kwinana Kwinana Kwinana Bunbury Bunbury Bunbury Bunbury Bunbury Whichever option we choose, there are issues – we know we won’t please everyone Stage 2 work streams OPTION 2: OPTION 3: OPTION 4: OPTION 5: OPT 6: Freo OPT 7: Freo OPTION 8: Potential red OPTION 1: Transition to Transition to Move all to Move all to & Kwinana & Bunbury Only Freo Kwinana over Bunbury over Kwinana Bunbury both have both have has flags Base Case time time ASAP ASAP containers containers containers 1. Multi-criteria assessment (MCA) methodology Leach Hwy Leach Hwy Leach Hwy South West Leach Hwy Leach Hwy Leach Hwy capacity capacity capacity main rail-line capacity capacity capacity 2. Environmental Supply Chain Rail capacity Rowley/ South West Rowley/ Containers in Rowley/ South West Rail capacity Anketell Rd main rail-line Anketell Rd Bunbury not Anketell Rd main rail-line • Cross-agency upgrades upgrades viable upgrades 3. Port operations and supply chain work stream teams Marine Dredging Marine Dredging Marine Dredging ecosystem requires ecosystem requires ecosystem requires 4. Economic development and land activities • Robust risk impacts blasting impacts blasting impacts blasting Environmental Terrestrial Truncation of Terrestrial Truncation of Terrestrial Truncation of management impacts Preston River impacts Preston River impacts Preston River 5. Commercial • Independent peer Amenity Impacts to Amenity Impacts to Amenity Impacts to Amenity Amenity impacts on fishing, horse impacts on fishing, horse impacts on fishing, horse impacts on impacts on Social 6. Defence Freo residents beach, shacks Bunbury beach, shacks Bunbury beach, shacks Bunbury Freo review of all work residents residents residents residents Limited land at Limited land 7. Social licence Freo at Freo Land use Land better for Land better 8. GIS tourism? for tourism? Freo Port Two container Bunbury Bunbury Two container Bunbury Freo Port Commercial capacity ports unviable financially financially ports unviable financially capacity unviable unviable unviable Incompatible Incompatible Incompatible Defence with defence with defence with defence 1. Multi-criteria assessment (MCA) 2. Environmental • Impact on marine environment • Objective decision-making tool based on data. • Impact on terrestrial environment • Evaluation criteria ranks options from • Impact on recreational activities best to least preferred. • Cumulative impact in Cockburn Sound • Data inputs come from Westport’s • Risk assessment research, past analysis and other • Impact mitigation agencies. and offsets • Westport will undertake several • Win-win outcomes MCAs throughout the year to • Heritage determine our best option/s. 3