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Experts guide future of Fremantle Port
2009/3/6
A new expert group has been established by the state government to guide the future expansion of Fremantle Port, WA Business News reported.
The Fremantle Ports Optimum Planning Group will develop recommendations for the long-term trade needs of Fremantle Ports and surrounding areas.
Transport Minister Simon O''Brien indicated he is keen to have some advice or recommendations by the middle of the year.
The Minister said the planning group would begin work immediately and report directly to him.
It will be chaired by former Main Roads Commissioner Greg Martin and include Department of Planning and Infrastructure director general, Eric Lumsden and WA Port Operations Taskforce chairman, Professor Fred Affleck.
Fremantle Ports Optimum Planning Group chairman, Greg Martin said it is going to take time to assemble the information and draw some conclusions.
"It''ll be a strategic exercise, certainly in the first period, because if we got lost in detail then we wouldn''t be able to see where there were gaps or where there were conflicts that needed to be thought through and reconciled if at all possible," Martin told WA Business News.
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2009/3/6