PPT’s woodchip loading facility at the Port of Albany, WA. February 2006
Plantation Management - transport
Port Facilities
Some Australian ports are responding to the increasing demand for the export of forest products from plantations through their facilities.
For example the Port of Albany increased its export of woodchips from 70,740 tonnes to 1,561,485 in 2008 - an increase from 4.9% of total exported tonnage to 42.6% of total exported tonnage.
Many of the plantation growing companies are combining strengths to build new loading and storage facilities for woodchips at the various ports e.g. Plantation Pulpwood Terminals Pty Ltd (PPT) is a jointly owned company by Timbercorp Limited and Integrated Tree Cropping Ltd (ITC), established to construct and manage woodchip port facilities.
In April 2005, Albany Chip Terminal was commissioned to receive, unload, screen and stockpile woodchips, with the first shipment departing in July 2005 to Marubeni Corporation in Japan.
Find out more about what is happening at the various Ports around Australia that are expanding their operations to include expanded exporting of woodchips:
- Port of Albany, Great Southern Region, W.A
- Port of Bunbury, South West Region, W.A.
- Port of Portland, Victoria
- Port of Geelong, Victoria
