NEWS DESK Shipping channels in Western Port may remain empty for years to come, according to a new options paper.
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Continued from Page 1 Building a new port to “complement the Port of Melbourne and meet demand to import goods into Victoria” is seen as one of the options that “may have merit, but are either not well developed enough to undertake a full assessment or are sufficiently developed but have not yet been assessed against this need”. The paper addresses issues surrounding freight and traffic flows around the Port of Melbourne as well as the port’s capability to expand. The options paper suggests building a Port of Melbourne to metropolitan container shuttle “to move international containers … to hubs across the Melbourne metropolitan area”. Plans have previously been put forward for an “inland port” south of Dandenong as a distribution point for containers from the Port of Hastings. The options paper also suggests consideration “be given to building a Melbourne to Brisbane freight rail line, which would also link south-east Queensland with Perth and Adelaide (via Parkes)”.
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The Port of Brisbane has undergone massive changes and freighting containers from there to Victoria could be cheaper than delivering them by ship. As reported in The News last week (“Hopes for port fading away” 17/5/16) Mornington MP David Morris said Ports Minister Luke Donellan had told the Public Accounts and Estimates Committee in May last year that the government would “seek independent advice from Infrastructure Victoria about Bay West as an alternative site to Hastings for Victoria’s second container port”. “Twelve months on and Infrastructure Victoria has spilt the beans that it has not looked at options for Hastings, Bay West, or indeed any other major project in the state,” Mr Morris said. He said not referring development of a container port to Infrastructure Victoria “means that not only might the development of a container port [at Hastings] be delayed for decades, there is a real risk that the port will be relegated to bulk status, reduced to handling the sort of cargo not acceptable to other ports”.
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Wanted by police A WARRANT has been issued for his arrest of a man known to frequent the Frankston, Langwarrin and Cranbourne areas. Ben Sabatucci, 24, is wanted by police in relation to the alleged theft of a motor car and theft from a motor car. He is described as 170cm tall, medium build, brown eyes, brown hair and fair complexion. If you know something, say something, police said. Anyone with information is urged to call Crime Stoppers 1800 333 000 or visit crimestoppersvic.com.au
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