❓ Minister MacTiernan celebrates the first non-trial iron ore shipment by Fortescue Metals Group to China, highlighting the company's achievements and the government's support in developing the Pilbara's infrastructure and promoting third-party access.
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IRON ORE INDUSTRY — EXPORTS TO CHINA
Could the minister tell the house what exciting milestones are taking place in the iron ore industry in my electorate today? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN
Could the minister tell the house what exciting milestones are taking place in the iron ore industry in my electorate today? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN
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I thank the member for Central Kimberley-Pilbara for the question. The member and I would have loved to have absented ourselves from this wonderful place today to be up in his region to participate in this event that we have both been working on for the past four years. Today is indeed a red-letter day for the iron ore industry, with a Western Australian-owned and operated company loading its first non-trial shipment of iron ore. As we speak, a cape-size vessel, the Heng Shan , is being loaded for delivery to Baosteel’s Majishan port in China. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : The Leader of the Opposition is being his normal negative self. This company has grown in Western Australia and is very much a Western Australia-owned and focused company. We have a little bit of xenophobia coming from the other side. We all understand that these types of developments require some investment from outside this country. I do not think that should in any way detract from the fantastic achievement that has been made by Andrew Forrest and his very dedicated team at Fortescue Metals Group Ltd and The Pilbara Infrastructure Pty Ltd. They deserve congratulations from both sides of politics on this extraordinary feat. In the space of less than three and a half years they have built rail, port and mining infrastructure and that is an extraordinary achievement. As I said, loading will begin today and the company is expecting to export 500 000 tonnes in May alone. That will increase over the next year to two million tonnes and then ramp up to 45 million tonnes, which is the current level for which it has approval. The member for Central Kimberley-Pilbara will agree with me that the drive and endless optimism of Andrew Forrest and his company really is quite extraordinary in the way that they have overcome the doubters and got support for this project. Our government and our agencies have worked very hard to give this company every opportunity to succeed and we have often had to work on some very tight and ambitious timelines to make sure that we had the appropriate approvals in place to deliver this project. I am very proud that we have worked so well with the company to make sure that this project was delivered and to ensure that, for the first time in the Pilbara, there is genuine third-party access to port and rail infrastructure, which will allow more WA companies to start up and get underway in the Pilbara. It is a fantastic development for the Pilbara to have this type of complexity and layering regarding the number of companies that are operating in the iron ore industry. I congratulate Andrew Forrest and all his team at Fortescue Metals and The Pilbara Infrastructure company. Well done. The government has been glad to be there to support them as part of this process.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for Central Kimberley-Pilbara for the question. The member and I would have loved to have absented ourselves from this wonderful place today to be up in his region to participate in this event that we have both been working on for the past four years. Today is indeed a red-letter day for the iron ore industry, with a Western Australian-owned and operated company loading its first non-trial shipment of iron ore. As we speak, a cape-size vessel, the Heng Shan , is being loaded for delivery to Baosteel’s Majishan port in China. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : The Leader of the Opposition is being his normal negative self. This company has grown in Western Australia and is very much a Western Australia-owned and focused company. We have a little bit of xenophobia coming from the other side. We all understand that these types of developments require some investment from outside this country. I do not think that should in any way detract from the fantastic achievement that has been made by Andrew Forrest and his very dedicated team at Fortescue Metals Group Ltd and The Pilbara Infrastructure Pty Ltd. They deserve congratulations from both sides of politics on this extraordinary feat. In the space of less than three and a half years they have built rail, port and mining infrastructure and that is an extraordinary achievement. As I said, loading will begin today and the company is expecting to export 500 000 tonnes in May alone. That will increase over the next year to two million tonnes and then ramp up to 45 million tonnes, which is the current level for which it has approval. The member for Central Kimberley-Pilbara will agree with me that the drive and endless optimism of Andrew Forrest and his company really is quite extraordinary in the way that they have overcome the doubters and got support for this project. Our government and our agencies have worked very hard to give this company every opportunity to succeed and we have often had to work on some very tight and ambitious timelines to make sure that we had the appropriate approvals in place to deliver this project. I am very proud that we have worked so well with the company to make sure that this project was delivered and to ensure that, for the first time in the Pilbara, there is genuine third-party access to port and rail infrastructure, which will allow more WA companies to start up and get underway in the Pilbara. It is a fantastic development for the Pilbara to have this type of complexity and layering regarding the number of companies that are operating in the iron ore industry. I congratulate Andrew Forrest and all his team at Fortescue Metals and The Pilbara Infrastructure company. Well done. The government has been glad to be there to support them as part of this process.
I thank the member for Central Kimberley-Pilbara for the question. The member and I would have loved to have absented ourselves from this wonderful place today to be up in his region to participate in this event that we have both been working on for the past four years. Today is indeed a red-letter day for the iron ore industry, with a Western Australian-owned and operated company loading its first non-trial shipment of iron ore. As we speak, a cape-size vessel, the Heng Shan , is being loaded for delivery to Baosteel’s Majishan port in China. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : The Leader of the Opposition is being his normal negative self. This company has grown in Western Australia and is very much a Western Australia-owned and focused company. We have a little bit of xenophobia coming from the other side. We all understand that these types of developments require some investment from outside this country. I do not think that should in any way detract from the fantastic achievement that has been made by Andrew Forrest and his very dedicated team at Fortescue Metals Group Ltd and The Pilbara Infrastructure Pty Ltd. They deserve congratulations from both sides of politics on this extraordinary feat. In the space of less than three and a half years they have built rail, port and mining infrastructure and that is an extraordinary achievement. As I said, loading will begin today and the company is expecting to export 500 000 tonnes in May alone. That will increase over the next year to two million tonnes and then ramp up to 45 million tonnes, which is the current level for which it has approval. The member for Central Kimberley-Pilbara will agree with me that the drive and endless optimism of Andrew Forrest and his company really is quite extraordinary in the way that they have overcome the doubters and got support for this project. Our government and our agencies have worked very hard to give this company every opportunity to succeed and we have often had to work on some very tight and ambitious timelines to make sure that we had the appropriate approvals in place to deliver this project. I am very proud that we have worked so well with the company to make sure that this project was delivered and to ensure that, for the first time in the Pilbara, there is genuine third-party access to port and rail infrastructure, which will allow more WA companies to start up and get underway in the Pilbara. It is a fantastic development for the Pilbara to have this type of complexity and layering regarding the number of companies that are operating in the iron ore industry. I congratulate Andrew Forrest and all his team at Fortescue Metals and The Pilbara Infrastructure company. Well done. The government has been glad to be there to support them as part of this process.
Mr T. Buswell interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : The Leader of the Opposition is being his normal negative self. This company has grown in Western Australia and is very much a Western Australia-owned and focused company. We have a little bit of xenophobia coming from the other side. We all understand that these types of developments require some investment from outside this country. I do not think that should in any way detract from the fantastic achievement that has been made by Andrew Forrest and his very dedicated team at Fortescue Metals Group Ltd and The Pilbara Infrastructure Pty Ltd. They deserve congratulations from both sides of politics on this extraordinary feat. In the space of less than three and a half years they have built rail, port and mining infrastructure and that is an extraordinary achievement. As I said, loading will begin today and the company is expecting to export 500 000 tonnes in May alone. That will increase over the next year to two million tonnes and then ramp up to 45 million tonnes, which is the current level for which it has approval. The member for Central Kimberley-Pilbara will agree with me that the drive and endless optimism of Andrew Forrest and his company really is quite extraordinary in the way that they have overcome the doubters and got support for this project. Our government and our agencies have worked very hard to give this company every opportunity to succeed and we have often had to work on some very tight and ambitious timelines to make sure that we had the appropriate approvals in place to deliver this project. I am very proud that we have worked so well with the company to make sure that this project was delivered and to ensure that, for the first time in the Pilbara, there is genuine third-party access to port and rail infrastructure, which will allow more WA companies to start up and get underway in the Pilbara. It is a fantastic development for the Pilbara to have this type of complexity and layering regarding the number of companies that are operating in the iron ore industry. I congratulate Andrew Forrest and all his team at Fortescue Metals and The Pilbara Infrastructure company. Well done. The government has been glad to be there to support them as part of this process.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : The Leader of the Opposition is being his normal negative self. This company has grown in Western Australia and is very much a Western Australia-owned and focused company. We have a little bit of xenophobia coming from the other side. We all understand that these types of developments require some investment from outside this country. I do not think that should in any way detract from the fantastic achievement that has been made by Andrew Forrest and his very dedicated team at Fortescue Metals Group Ltd and The Pilbara Infrastructure Pty Ltd. They deserve congratulations from both sides of politics on this extraordinary feat. In the space of less than three and a half years they have built rail, port and mining infrastructure and that is an extraordinary achievement. As I said, loading will begin today and the company is expecting to export 500 000 tonnes in May alone. That will increase over the next year to two million tonnes and then ramp up to 45 million tonnes, which is the current level for which it has approval. The member for Central Kimberley-Pilbara will agree with me that the drive and endless optimism of Andrew Forrest and his company really is quite extraordinary in the way that they have overcome the doubters and got support for this project. Our government and our agencies have worked very hard to give this company every opportunity to succeed and we have often had to work on some very tight and ambitious timelines to make sure that we had the appropriate approvals in place to deliver this project. I am very proud that we have worked so well with the company to make sure that this project was delivered and to ensure that, for the first time in the Pilbara, there is genuine third-party access to port and rail infrastructure, which will allow more WA companies to start up and get underway in the Pilbara. It is a fantastic development for the Pilbara to have this type of complexity and layering regarding the number of companies that are operating in the iron ore industry. I congratulate Andrew Forrest and all his team at Fortescue Metals and The Pilbara Infrastructure company. Well done. The government has been glad to be there to support them as part of this process.
In the space of less than three and a half years they have built rail, port and mining infrastructure and that is an extraordinary achievement. As I said, loading will begin today and the company is expecting to export 500 000 tonnes in May alone. That will increase over the next year to two million tonnes and then ramp up to 45 million tonnes, which is the current level for which it has approval. The member for Central Kimberley-Pilbara will agree with me that the drive and endless optimism of Andrew Forrest and his company really is quite extraordinary in the way that they have overcome the doubters and got support for this project. Our government and our agencies have worked very hard to give this company every opportunity to succeed and we have often had to work on some very tight and ambitious timelines to make sure that we had the appropriate approvals in place to deliver this project. I am very proud that we have worked so well with the company to make sure that this project was delivered and to ensure that, for the first time in the Pilbara, there is genuine third-party access to port and rail infrastructure, which will allow more WA companies to start up and get underway in the Pilbara. It is a fantastic development for the Pilbara to have this type of complexity and layering regarding the number of companies that are operating in the iron ore industry. I congratulate Andrew Forrest and all his team at Fortescue Metals and The Pilbara Infrastructure company. Well done. The government has been glad to be there to support them as part of this process.
The member for Central Kimberley-Pilbara will agree with me that the drive and endless optimism of Andrew Forrest and his company really is quite extraordinary in the way that they have overcome the doubters and got support for this project. Our government and our agencies have worked very hard to give this company every opportunity to succeed and we have often had to work on some very tight and ambitious timelines to make sure that we had the appropriate approvals in place to deliver this project. I am very proud that we have worked so well with the company to make sure that this project was delivered and to ensure that, for the first time in the Pilbara, there is genuine third-party access to port and rail infrastructure, which will allow more WA companies to start up and get underway in the Pilbara. It is a fantastic development for the Pilbara to have this type of complexity and layering regarding the number of companies that are operating in the iron ore industry. I congratulate Andrew Forrest and all his team at Fortescue Metals and The Pilbara Infrastructure company. Well done. The government has been glad to be there to support them as part of this process.
I am very proud that we have worked so well with the company to make sure that this project was delivered and to ensure that, for the first time in the Pilbara, there is genuine third-party access to port and rail infrastructure, which will allow more WA companies to start up and get underway in the Pilbara. It is a fantastic development for the Pilbara to have this type of complexity and layering regarding the number of companies that are operating in the iron ore industry. I congratulate Andrew Forrest and all his team at Fortescue Metals and The Pilbara Infrastructure company. Well done. The government has been glad to be there to support them as part of this process.
I congratulate Andrew Forrest and all his team at Fortescue Metals and The Pilbara Infrastructure company. Well done. The government has been glad to be there to support them as part of this process.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for Central Kimberley-Pilbara for the question. The member and I would have loved to have absented ourselves from this wonderful place today to be up in his region to participate in this event that we have both been working on for the past four years. Today is indeed a red-letter day for the iron ore industry, with a Western Australian-owned and operated company loading its first non-trial shipment of iron ore. As we speak, a cape-size vessel, the Heng Shan , is being loaded for delivery to Baosteel’s Majishan port in China. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : The Leader of the Opposition is being his normal negative self. This company has grown in Western Australia and is very much a Western Australia-owned and focused company. We have a little bit of xenophobia coming from the other side. We all understand that these types of developments require some investment from outside this country. I do not think that should in any way detract from the fantastic achievement that has been made by Andrew Forrest and his very dedicated team at Fortescue Metals Group Ltd and The Pilbara Infrastructure Pty Ltd. They deserve congratulations from both sides of politics on this extraordinary feat. In the space of less than three and a half years they have built rail, port and mining infrastructure and that is an extraordinary achievement. As I said, loading will begin today and the company is expecting to export 500 000 tonnes in May alone. That will increase over the next year to two million tonnes and then ramp up to 45 million tonnes, which is the current level for which it has approval. The member for Central Kimberley-Pilbara will agree with me that the drive and endless optimism of Andrew Forrest and his company really is quite extraordinary in the way that they have overcome the doubters and got support for this project. Our government and our agencies have worked very hard to give this company every opportunity to succeed and we have often had to work on some very tight and ambitious timelines to make sure that we had the appropriate approvals in place to deliver this project. I am very proud that we have worked so well with the company to make sure that this project was delivered and to ensure that, for the first time in the Pilbara, there is genuine third-party access to port and rail infrastructure, which will allow more WA companies to start up and get underway in the Pilbara. It is a fantastic development for the Pilbara to have this type of complexity and layering regarding the number of companies that are operating in the iron ore industry. I congratulate Andrew Forrest and all his team at Fortescue Metals and The Pilbara Infrastructure company. Well done. The government has been glad to be there to support them as part of this process.
I thank the member for Central Kimberley-Pilbara for the question. The member and I would have loved to have absented ourselves from this wonderful place today to be up in his region to participate in this event that we have both been working on for the past four years. Today is indeed a red-letter day for the iron ore industry, with a Western Australian-owned and operated company loading its first non-trial shipment of iron ore. As we speak, a cape-size vessel, the Heng Shan , is being loaded for delivery to Baosteel’s Majishan port in China. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : The Leader of the Opposition is being his normal negative self. This company has grown in Western Australia and is very much a Western Australia-owned and focused company. We have a little bit of xenophobia coming from the other side. We all understand that these types of developments require some investment from outside this country. I do not think that should in any way detract from the fantastic achievement that has been made by Andrew Forrest and his very dedicated team at Fortescue Metals Group Ltd and The Pilbara Infrastructure Pty Ltd. They deserve congratulations from both sides of politics on this extraordinary feat. In the space of less than three and a half years they have built rail, port and mining infrastructure and that is an extraordinary achievement. As I said, loading will begin today and the company is expecting to export 500 000 tonnes in May alone. That will increase over the next year to two million tonnes and then ramp up to 45 million tonnes, which is the current level for which it has approval. The member for Central Kimberley-Pilbara will agree with me that the drive and endless optimism of Andrew Forrest and his company really is quite extraordinary in the way that they have overcome the doubters and got support for this project. Our government and our agencies have worked very hard to give this company every opportunity to succeed and we have often had to work on some very tight and ambitious timelines to make sure that we had the appropriate approvals in place to deliver this project. I am very proud that we have worked so well with the company to make sure that this project was delivered and to ensure that, for the first time in the Pilbara, there is genuine third-party access to port and rail infrastructure, which will allow more WA companies to start up and get underway in the Pilbara. It is a fantastic development for the Pilbara to have this type of complexity and layering regarding the number of companies that are operating in the iron ore industry. I congratulate Andrew Forrest and all his team at Fortescue Metals and The Pilbara Infrastructure company. Well done. The government has been glad to be there to support them as part of this process.
Mr T. Buswell interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : The Leader of the Opposition is being his normal negative self. This company has grown in Western Australia and is very much a Western Australia-owned and focused company. We have a little bit of xenophobia coming from the other side. We all understand that these types of developments require some investment from outside this country. I do not think that should in any way detract from the fantastic achievement that has been made by Andrew Forrest and his very dedicated team at Fortescue Metals Group Ltd and The Pilbara Infrastructure Pty Ltd. They deserve congratulations from both sides of politics on this extraordinary feat. In the space of less than three and a half years they have built rail, port and mining infrastructure and that is an extraordinary achievement. As I said, loading will begin today and the company is expecting to export 500 000 tonnes in May alone. That will increase over the next year to two million tonnes and then ramp up to 45 million tonnes, which is the current level for which it has approval. The member for Central Kimberley-Pilbara will agree with me that the drive and endless optimism of Andrew Forrest and his company really is quite extraordinary in the way that they have overcome the doubters and got support for this project. Our government and our agencies have worked very hard to give this company every opportunity to succeed and we have often had to work on some very tight and ambitious timelines to make sure that we had the appropriate approvals in place to deliver this project. I am very proud that we have worked so well with the company to make sure that this project was delivered and to ensure that, for the first time in the Pilbara, there is genuine third-party access to port and rail infrastructure, which will allow more WA companies to start up and get underway in the Pilbara. It is a fantastic development for the Pilbara to have this type of complexity and layering regarding the number of companies that are operating in the iron ore industry. I congratulate Andrew Forrest and all his team at Fortescue Metals and The Pilbara Infrastructure company. Well done. The government has been glad to be there to support them as part of this process.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : The Leader of the Opposition is being his normal negative self. This company has grown in Western Australia and is very much a Western Australia-owned and focused company. We have a little bit of xenophobia coming from the other side. We all understand that these types of developments require some investment from outside this country. I do not think that should in any way detract from the fantastic achievement that has been made by Andrew Forrest and his very dedicated team at Fortescue Metals Group Ltd and The Pilbara Infrastructure Pty Ltd. They deserve congratulations from both sides of politics on this extraordinary feat. In the space of less than three and a half years they have built rail, port and mining infrastructure and that is an extraordinary achievement. As I said, loading will begin today and the company is expecting to export 500 000 tonnes in May alone. That will increase over the next year to two million tonnes and then ramp up to 45 million tonnes, which is the current level for which it has approval. The member for Central Kimberley-Pilbara will agree with me that the drive and endless optimism of Andrew Forrest and his company really is quite extraordinary in the way that they have overcome the doubters and got support for this project. Our government and our agencies have worked very hard to give this company every opportunity to succeed and we have often had to work on some very tight and ambitious timelines to make sure that we had the appropriate approvals in place to deliver this project. I am very proud that we have worked so well with the company to make sure that this project was delivered and to ensure that, for the first time in the Pilbara, there is genuine third-party access to port and rail infrastructure, which will allow more WA companies to start up and get underway in the Pilbara. It is a fantastic development for the Pilbara to have this type of complexity and layering regarding the number of companies that are operating in the iron ore industry. I congratulate Andrew Forrest and all his team at Fortescue Metals and The Pilbara Infrastructure company. Well done. The government has been glad to be there to support them as part of this process.
In the space of less than three and a half years they have built rail, port and mining infrastructure and that is an extraordinary achievement. As I said, loading will begin today and the company is expecting to export 500 000 tonnes in May alone. That will increase over the next year to two million tonnes and then ramp up to 45 million tonnes, which is the current level for which it has approval. The member for Central Kimberley-Pilbara will agree with me that the drive and endless optimism of Andrew Forrest and his company really is quite extraordinary in the way that they have overcome the doubters and got support for this project. Our government and our agencies have worked very hard to give this company every opportunity to succeed and we have often had to work on some very tight and ambitious timelines to make sure that we had the appropriate approvals in place to deliver this project. I am very proud that we have worked so well with the company to make sure that this project was delivered and to ensure that, for the first time in the Pilbara, there is genuine third-party access to port and rail infrastructure, which will allow more WA companies to start up and get underway in the Pilbara. It is a fantastic development for the Pilbara to have this type of complexity and layering regarding the number of companies that are operating in the iron ore industry. I congratulate Andrew Forrest and all his team at Fortescue Metals and The Pilbara Infrastructure company. Well done. The government has been glad to be there to support them as part of this process.
The member for Central Kimberley-Pilbara will agree with me that the drive and endless optimism of Andrew Forrest and his company really is quite extraordinary in the way that they have overcome the doubters and got support for this project. Our government and our agencies have worked very hard to give this company every opportunity to succeed and we have often had to work on some very tight and ambitious timelines to make sure that we had the appropriate approvals in place to deliver this project. I am very proud that we have worked so well with the company to make sure that this project was delivered and to ensure that, for the first time in the Pilbara, there is genuine third-party access to port and rail infrastructure, which will allow more WA companies to start up and get underway in the Pilbara. It is a fantastic development for the Pilbara to have this type of complexity and layering regarding the number of companies that are operating in the iron ore industry. I congratulate Andrew Forrest and all his team at Fortescue Metals and The Pilbara Infrastructure company. Well done. The government has been glad to be there to support them as part of this process.
I am very proud that we have worked so well with the company to make sure that this project was delivered and to ensure that, for the first time in the Pilbara, there is genuine third-party access to port and rail infrastructure, which will allow more WA companies to start up and get underway in the Pilbara. It is a fantastic development for the Pilbara to have this type of complexity and layering regarding the number of companies that are operating in the iron ore industry. I congratulate Andrew Forrest and all his team at Fortescue Metals and The Pilbara Infrastructure company. Well done. The government has been glad to be there to support them as part of this process.
I congratulate Andrew Forrest and all his team at Fortescue Metals and The Pilbara Infrastructure company. Well done. The government has been glad to be there to support them as part of this process.
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