Kwinana Bulk Terminal

The Kwinana Bulk Terminal is owned and operated by the Fremantle Ports and currently used for handling gypsum, slag, coal, nut coke, cement clinker, bauxite, Liquified Petroleum Gas and iron ore.

Coal exports
Since January 2007 Griffin Coal has been exporting coal through the Kwinana Bulk Terminal. In May 2011 Fremantle Ports announced that it was "concluding negotiations with Griffin Coal to enable the export of 750,000 tonnes of coal annually over four years" through the terminal. "The new arrangement with Griffin Coal will cover the transition period until planned new facilities for handling coal are developed at Bunbury or elsewhere," a media release from Fremantle Ports stated.

In May 2012 Fremantle Ports warned Lanco that unless it paid outstanding debts it wold be blocked from exporting coal. "We have written to Lanco to advise them that Fremantle Port expects them to meet the commercial conditions under their contract," a spokeswoman for Fremantle Ports told The West Australian. The newspaper reported that it believed the outstanding amount was $8.5 million which debt "incurred as part of work commissioned on Lanco's behalf by Fremantle Port that allows Lanco to export more than a million tonnes of coal through Kwinana." The Wall Street Journal reported that Lanco had agreements to export "around 750,000 metric tons of coal a year" through Fremantle Port's Kwinana Bulk Terminal. Several days after the warning Lloyds List reported that Fremantle Ports’ manager for external affairs Ainslie de Vos stated that "arrangements have been made between the parties for payment of all outstanding monies."

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