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Port vows to launch container terminal 'without delay'

The government will remove restrictions on Port of Newcastle building a freight terminal if the private operator tops up its $1.75 billion lease payment to the state.

Newcastle Herald · Nov 8, 2022

NSW government agrees deal to scrap container penalties

The government will remove restrictions on Port of Newcastle building a freight terminal if the private operator tops up its $1.75 billion lease payment to the state.

Newcastle Herald · Nov 7, 2022

World-first Japanese bulk carrier with giant sail arrives from Japan on Monday to load coal

Revolutionary sail-carrying bulk carrier bound for Newcastle

Newcastle Herald · Oct 20, 2022

Port wars: NSW Ports launches attack on Newcastle Container Terminal plans

NSW Ports, the operator of Port Botany, has written to the Hunter's state MPs disputing the need for a Newcastle container terminal and its projected economic benefits for the region.

Newcastle Herald · Aug 3, 2022

Port of Newcastle ready for lift-off

The Port of Newcastle's diversification plans have taken a major step forward with the arrival of two Liebherr mobile harbour cranes.

Newcastle Herald · Aug 2, 2022

Harbour Lives: Honeysuckle blossoms with buildings by the water

A few decades, it was a lamented stretch of the harbour that looked unloved and was largely unpeopled, but these days residential and commercial buildings are sprouting along the foreshore at Honeysuckle, providing waterfront homes - and a point of debate.

Newcastle Herald · Jul 30, 2022

Cranes to lift Port of Newcastle's container terminal ambition

Two large harbour cranes are bound for Newcastle from Germany, with the port's chief executive Craig Carmody hoping the facility not only lifts up to 40,000 containers a year but shifts attention onto the long running issue of the Port of Newcastle feeling constrained to build a larger terminal because…

Newcastle Herald · Jun 22, 2022

Sunk at the last minute: the $250m Port of Newcastle container terminal package

The Morrison government came within 24 hours of unveiling a $250 million infrastructure package to support the establishment of a container terminal at the Port of Newcastle but dumped the commitment over concerns that it would be seen as promoting Chinese interests in Australia.

Newcastle Herald · May 23, 2022

Funding pumps up Hunter hydrogen pilot plants

Taxpayer funding for Origin, Orica and others in Newcastle hydrogen studies

Newcastle Herald · Apr 28, 2022

Port of Newcastle's $100m clean energy rush

The federal government's $100 million investment in the development of Port of Newcastle's energy precinct will also supercharge plans to create a $3.1 billion hydrogen hub capable of sustaining 5000 jobs.

Newcastle Herald · Mar 30, 2022