Sally Noonan, Dept of State Development, Infrastructure & Planning: Queensland Ports Strategy

Queensland Ports Strategy

Sally Noonan Executive Director, Futures Unit

Department of State Development, Infrastructure and Planning

Queensland’s Port Network

• 15 trading ports

• 2 community ports

• 3 non-trading ports

Throughput volume by port and commodity

Gladstone

32%

Hay Point /

Mackay

33%

Abbot Point

5%

Townsville

5%

Other

11%Brisbane

14%

Bauxite

15%

Other

5%

Coal

63%

Agriculture

3%General cargo

4%

Metals and

minerals

4%

Petroleum

products

6%

Challenges facing the ports sector

• supply chain bottlenecks and linkages

• infrastructure access by SMEs

• land use tension

• duplication of regulatory processes

• uncertain environmental management requirements

• lack of community understanding of port operations

Queensland Ports Strategy

• The blueprint for managing and improving the efficiency and environmental management of the state’s port network over the next decade

• Draft released for public consultation to 13 December 2013

Related initiatives

Queensland Ports

Strategy

Moving Freight

Infrastructure for Economic Development

Governing for growth

Great Barrier Reef Ports Strategy Strategic

Assessment of the Great

Barrier Reef

State Planning Policy

Cross jurisdictional

planning

National Ports Strategy

Queensland’s agriculture

strategy

Drive economic growth through the efficient use and development of Queensland’s

long-established major port areas, while protecting and managing Queensland’s

outstanding environmental assets

VISION

Strategic use

of ports Environmental

protection Efficiency Supply chains Master

planning THEMES

Establishing

Priority Port

Development

Areas

Concentrating

port development

Improving supply

chain

infrastructure

coordination and

delivery

Reviewing port

governance

Developing a

statutory master

planning

guideline

KEY

ACTIONS

Overview of the strategy

Strategic use of ports

• Queensland ports have varying strategic functions including:

– Supporting economic development by linking Queensland to global markets

– Exporting local goods/commodities

– Importing goods for remote communities

– Defence operations

– Cruise shipping

Establishing Priority Port Development Areas (PPDAs)

• PPDAs will be declared at the ports of: – Brisbane

– Gladstone

– Mackay/Hay Point

– Abbot Point

– Townsville

• These ports account for 98% of Queensland’s imports and 87% of the state’s exports by volume.

Priority Port Development Areas (PPDAs)

• Critically located

• Connected to centres of production and demand

Environmental protection

• The government has committed to restricting any significant port development, within and adjoining the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area, to within existing port limits to 2022.

• The draft Queensland Ports Strategy builds on this commitment.

Concentrating port development

The Queensland Government will prohibit capital dredging for the development of deepwater port facilities outside of PPDAs for the next ten years.

Efficiency: Reviewing port governance

The government is reviewing commercial governance arrangements for Queensland ports.

The review aims to:

• improve Queensland’s productivity

• minimise operational costs

• maintain a similar level of service at least cost to government

• deliver the most efficient and effective services

• address the needs of local and port communities

Supply chains

• The government is delivering frameworks to improve the coordination of supply chains to and from PPDAs including:

– North Queensland Resources Supply Chain Project

– Central Queensland Supply Chain Coordination Project

– Bowen, Galilee, and Surat Basin Infrastructure

Frameworks

Efficient use of supply chain infrastructure

Master planning

Strategic

use of ports

Environmental

protection

Efficiency Supply

chains

Planning

Strategic

use of ports

Environmental

protection

Efficiency Supply

chains

PlanningMaster planning

Benefits of master planning

• Clarity of port vision

• Additional economic value

• Better decision making

• Greater understanding of port needs

• Efficient management and delivery of infrastructure

• Increased environmental protection

• Streamlined development assessment process

Master planning at PPDAs

• PPDAs required to prepare master plans in accordance with a statutory guideline

• Required to include Environmental Management Frameworks

• Community engagement and participation will be required

Consultation

• Public consultation on the draft Queensland Ports Strategy is now open

• Download the strategy or make a submission at www.dsdip.qld.gov.au/qps

• Consultation closes 13 December 2013

• Following public consultation, a final Queensland Ports Strategy will be released in early-mid 2014