Flinders Ports

Flinders Ports manages seven of South Australia's ten privately owned ports and is the state's largest port operator.

Its ports directly access the waters of the Great Australian Bight, Spencer Gulf and Gulf St Vincent. It was founded as a consortium in 2001 and won the right to run the ports of Port Adelaide, Port Lincoln, Port Pirie, Thevenard, Port Giles, Wallaroo and Klein Point for 99 years in November 2001. Flinders Ports' services include pilotage, mooring, launch services, port infrastructure, shipping infrastructure management, land infrastructure management, surveying and marine control. The consortium serves many South Australian industries including agriculture, forestry, mining and manufacturing. Through partnership with the South Australian Tourism Commission, Flinders Ports is also encouraging the development of South Australia as a destination for cruise ships. Flinders Ports has also worked on supply chain solutions to move mineral exports from mine to market to service South Australia's mineral resources sector. Most of Flinders Ports' facilities are equipped to handle bulk and break-bulk cargoes and all ports have transport links available by road, rail or both.

Flinders Ports is a wholly owned subsidiary of Flinders Port Holdings Pty Ltd - the holding company for the group’s ports, port management, logistics, container terminal, property, and Spencer Gulf Marine Services businesses. The shareholding of Flinders Port Holdings is structured as follows:

In recent years, Flinders Ports has benefited from and helped to facilitate the expansion of South Australia's mining sector. In 2009, a dedicated bulk minerals export precinct was established at Berth 29, Port Adelaide. Exports of mineral sands, zinc concentrates, copper concentrates, sulphur and fertilisers/phosphate rock were initially catered for. Iron ore was first exported from the precinct from IMX Resources' Cairn Hill mine in December 2010. Flinders Ports also developed 25,000 square metres of hard stand to accommodate the storage and handling of mineral sands. Mineral sands exporters include Cristal Mining.

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