Flinders Ports is a private company operating seven of South Australia’s ports ... Port Adelaide, Port Lincoln, Port Pirie, Thevenard, Port Giles, Wallaroo and Klein Point.

Flinders Ports is committed to improving port services to the benefit of existing trades and assisting in the development of new business and continues to expand its port facilities to meet the demands of its customers.

In April 2009, Flinders Ports opened a $6 million, 2500 square metre, fully-enclosed storage facility, adjacent Berth 29, Inner Harbour, Port Adelaide.

The facility forms part of an ambitious Master Plan developed by Flinders Ports to build a “best practice” bulk commodities precinct to cater for the specific future needs of the State’s resources industry, as well as other bulk commodity sectors.

The centrepieces of the common user facility - named the Port Adelaide Bulk Precinct - include:

• a $5 million private rail link and interface with the national rail network;

• purpose-built, fully enclosed storage facilities developed to suit specific requirements of customers;

• “best practice” environmental performance. Overall design will focus on minimising environmental impacts including dust, and water conservation and re-use across the site;

• state-of-the-art materials handling systems including reclaim conveyor systems to and from the storage facilities;

• upgraded or improved ancillary facilities including new roadways, site services and environmental systems.

      The new storage facility has been constructed to store bulk products.

A new $4 million ship loader has been commissioned at Berth 29 and is part of the overall precinct development.

The opening of the first phase of Flinders Ports’ $50 million Port Adelaide Bulk Precinct continues the company’s drive to revitalise the Port of Adelaide, and other ports it operates in South Australia, to make the State’s ports more competitive on a global and domestic basis.

In 2006 Flinders Ports joined with the SA Government to fund the $45 million deepening of the State’s main shipping channel at Outer Harbor.

This included deepening the channel by an extra two metres to 14.2 metres, and extending from nine kilometres in length to 11.7 kilometres, the channel from Outer Harbor into St Vincent Gulf.

The channel upgrade enables fully laden Panamax size vessels to include Adelaide (Outer Harbor) on their international shipping schedules.

In 2002, Flinders Ports unveiled a $400 million plan to redevelop the Outer Harbor industrial precinct, a project which continues today.

Flinders Ports has also been the driving force behind a number of other major projects in the area including a new $34 million grain berth; $17 million, 149-metre extension of the Adelaide container terminal; and a $15 million, 20,000m2 warehouse for Constellation Wines Australia (formerly the Hardy Wine Company) – all at Outer Harbor.

Further, Flinders Ports has invested $9 million and $6 million respectively upgrading port facilities at Port Giles and Wallaroo on Yorke Peninsula.

The Spencer Gulf Port Link Consortium, led by Flinders Ports, has lodged a feasibility study with the State Government for its Port Bonython export proposal.

The consortium has submitted detailed plans for the development of a deep-water commodities export harbour near Whyalla in the State’s Eyre Peninsula region.

The proposed facility includes a new capesize jetty, rail, shed facilities and conveyor systems.

The Flinders Ports owned regional ports of Port Lincoln, Thevenard and Port Pirie are also being considered for development to meet the demands of the mining industries in these regions.

South Australia is moving into an era of unprecedented economic growth, underpinned by the mining industry. Flinders Ports aims to ensure that the cargoes associated with this growth are provided with suitable facilities in the right locations.