Fremantle Ports, a Western Australian Government owned trading enterprise is the strategic manager of Western Australia’s principal general cargo port. Its role is to ensure the port can efficiently cater for trade and operate in a sustainable manner with the support of customers and the community. Its functions include the facilitation of trade, planning for future growth and development, construction and maintenance of infrastructure, planning and co-ordination of services and being economically, socially and environmentally responsible.
Its diverse workforce is engaged in areas such as marine services, security, safety, engineering, port and strategic planning, trade development and marketing, information technology, finance, logistics, industrial relations and community engagement.
Fremantle Ports operates from two locations. The Inner Harbour at Fremantle handles almost all of the container trade for Western Australia, with the vast majority of the containers having their origin or destination in the metropolitan area. It also provides facilities for handling livestock exports, motor vehicle imports, other general cargo trades, cruise ships and visiting naval vessels. The container terminals on North Quay are privately operated on land leased from Fremantle Ports. The Inner Harbour also has several common user berths.
The Outer Harbour, about twenty kilometres to the south at Kwinana, is one of Australia’s major bulk cargo ports handling grain, petroleum, liquid petroleum gas, alumina, fertilisers, sulphur, pig iron and other bulk commodities. Fremantle Ports operates the Kwinana Bulk Jetty and the Kwinana Bulk Terminal at Kwinana, providing facilities to handle a range of imports and exports. Alcoa, BP and Co-operative Bulk Handling also operate cargo-handling facilities in the Outer Harbour.
Towage, pilotage (under contract to Fremantle Ports), line boats, bunkers and providoring of ships are provided by the private sector.
Fremantle Ports also works with the Commonwealth Government in facilitating customs, quarantine and Australian Maritime Safety Authority activities in the port area and in maintaining compliance with Federal maritime security legislation.
The Inner and Outer Harbours are linked by rail to the interstate and intrastate rail networks.
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