Geraldton Port: Ready for the boom
THE Mid-West Ports Authority is playing the long game, increasing throughput by maximising its existing infrastructure, ensuring that when mining projects in the region come online, the Port of Geraldton will ready and waiting to be that vital link in the mining supply chain. Mid-West Ports Authority chief executive officer Rochelle Macdonald said there was a huge amount of opportunity that the port can realise in the next 10-15 years. “In the past 10 years we’ve actually seen a doubling of the trade going through the port of Geraldton so it’s not unrealistic to see the trade increasing quite significantly going forward,” Ms Macdonald said. “We’ve got iron ore, base metal concentrate, mineral sands, and some new products, rare earths…