Minister’s forward

The Western Trade Coast is a major industrial precinct located in Perth, Western Australia. Covering 3,900 hectares, the region is home to a range of strategic and advanced industries, including future facing minerals processing, chemical manufacturing, and energy generation, as well as advanced fabrication, manufacturing, defence and shipbuilding capabilities in the Australian Marine Complex.

The Western Australian Government is committed to positioning the Western Trade Coast as a Global Advanced Industries Hub, and an investment and trade destination for new and emerging industries. This vision will be realised as the State facilitates transformational projects in renewable hydrogen, future facing minerals processing, and shipbuilding and sustainment, as well as the potential establishment of Western Australia’s new container port at Kwinana. In support of this vision, the Western Australian Government established a Ministerial Taskforce to oversee the development of an economic framework for the region with a focus on industry development and attraction, land and infrastructure, and skills and workforce development.

This study is a current state assessment of the Western Trade Coast, providing a contemporary profile of industry and the critical success factors that have supported the long-term growth and development of this nationally significant industrial precinct. The study highlights the enormous contribution that industries operating in the Western Trade Coast collectively make to the wealth of the State and its citizens, and the critical link of industry in global supply chains operating within Western Australia, and across the globe.

Importantly, this study also highlights the opportunities for further economic development, diversification and decarbonisation of the Western Trade Coast, and its transformation into a Global Advanced Industries Hub.

Roger Cook MLA Deputy Premier Minister for State Development, Jobs and Trade; Hydrogen Industry; Tourism; Science