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The Bundaberg region possesses numerous infrastructure and transport based assets from which industry benefits.

RoadLocated only four hours north of Brisbane, the State’s capital. The region is accessed from Queensland’s major coastal vehicle route, the Bruce Highway, north from Gin Gin and south from Childers. Several bus companies service the region, with regular services to Brisbane and other parts of the state. The road network hierarchy connects nearby localities to the city’s services. These localities include Elliott Heads, Bargara, Burnett Heads, Moore Park, Gin Gin, and Childers.

RailBundaberg is located on the main North Coast Railway between Brisbane and Cairns. The revolutionary Tilt Train, which can travel at speeds up to 160 km/hr, provides a number of services per day between Bundaberg and Brisbane. Travel time is a leisurely four hours. The Tilt Train provides both business and economy class travel. Other rail passenger services are operated between Brisbane, Rockhampton and Cairns through the central Bundaberg Railway Station.

Queensland Rail also operates its general freight service (Qlink) which provides door-to-door service by utilising rail and road transport with a depot located in Bundaberg. Container transfer facilities are located at this depot. The railway network is electrified and is capable of daily freight services carrying 1,500 tonnes when at capacity. A future railway spur line could connect this line with the array of industrial activities in the immediate locality and provide an intermodal transfer point.

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AirThe Bundaberg Regional Airport is located on the south west outskirts of the Bundaberg CBD, adjacent to the Childers Road. The airports terminal caters for intrastate scheduled public passenger transport services for the region. Services run frequently throughout the day. Flight time to Brisbane is approximately 50 minutes. The Airport has two runways with the main runway having recent upgrades which has increased its capacity and opportunity to host larger jets services and additional air carriers.

MarinasThe region is served by several marinas on the Burnett River. Burnett Heads Marina, located in the Crown Boat Harbour, offers boat repairs, 50 tonne slipway and on-water refuelling. Bundaberg Slipways, on the northern bank of the river, caters for vessels up to 100 tonnes with specialist facilities for multihulls, a hardstand area and work shed for boatbuilding. Paint, marine products and chandlery items and the services of a marine brokerage are available. The Port of Bundaberg Marina provides 160 floating berths, 70 tonne travel lift, hardstand and repair facilities, licensed restaurant and marine electronic repairs. Midtown Marinas, located in the centre of Bundaberg, offers 80 marina berths, 50 moorings, 5 fit-out berths and on-water refuelling. A ship’s chandlery is available at each Marina.

PortThe Port of Bundaberg is a first port of call for customs and quarantine clearing of small craft

being ideally situated on the eastern sea board and with easy access from the Pacific Islands. Being located only 4.8 km from the mouth of the Burnett River the entrance channel is 8km in length, 103m in width with a minimum 9.5m navigable depth (LAT) and leads into a swing basin 1165m in length and 320 m in width. Regional stevedoring service capabilities together with future expansion plans at the Port ensure that industry opportunities are abundant.

WharvesThe Sir Thomas Hiley Wharf is utilised for shipment of sugar, being 191m in length with 10.0m berth depth. The new approach wharf for general cargo users provides access to the Sir Thomas Hiley Wharf for laden semi and B-double vehicles and forklifts. John T. Fisher Wharf provides bulk loading points for molasses and petroleum products and is 240m in length including dolphins with a 9.7m berth depth. Tug and Pilot services are also available at the Port, with berthing facilities for pilot launches and the lines running contractors craft.

Sugar Terminal BuildingsA storage capacity of 330,000 tonnes of bulk raw sugar is provided in the longest single sugar storage shed built to date, standing at 425m in length. The associated conveyor belt system has a loading capacity of 1400 tonnes per hour.

Bulk Molasses TerminalThis terminal comprises three storage tanks with a total capacity of 36,641 tonnes and a loading rate of 285 tonnes per hour facilitated by a 375mm pipeline connected to five electrically operated pumps.

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Electricity & GasAbundant and reliable supplies of electricity and gas provide industry with the confidence to grow and expand in the region. Opportunities exist for industry energy users to negotiate supply contracts with generators and retailers. The region is well serviced by the Queensland electricity grid and is close to the state’s capacity-generating assets at Callide and Gladstone. Major population areas and industry in the region have been serviced by reticulated natural gas through an off-shoot of the Duke Energy Wallumbilla-to-Gladstone pipeline.

WaterThe water supply scheme provides assured urban, industrial and rural water supplies to the region. The supply of clean raw water from a variety of sources including Paradise Dam, Fred Haigh Dam, Walla Weir, Bingera Weir, Ben Anderson Barrage and bores, utilizing an extensive irrigation network for distribution across 52,400 hectares of farmland and communities located in the region. These sources guarantee contaminant free water resulting in quality produce all year round.

This region has captured the attention of many people with its ground breaking use of the latest technology in plastic film and trickle irrigation. Most recently monitoring equipment such as tensiometers and neutron probes have been utilised as an integral part of water efficiency and maximisation of crop production and quality. All three major industrial estates are provided with reticulated water and presently non-serviced greenfield sites have been incorporated into forward planning processes to ensure adequate infrastructure provision in the future.

Paradise DamIn 2001, Burnett Water undertook an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and supplementary EIS that satisfied both Sate and Federal Government legislation for the establishment of the ‘Burnett River Dam.’ Construction for the dam commenced in 2003 and was designed to hold 300,000 megalitres (300,000,000,000 litres). The dam is situated approximately 20kms north-west of Biggenden and 80kms south-west of Bundaberg, and is expected to yield approximately 124,000Ml/annum of medium priority water for agricultural use and 20,000Ml/annum of high priority water for urban and industrial use.