Bidders Announced for Webb Dock Container Terminal

An icon of Australian shipping and the third Australian stevedore are two of the four entities to have lodged bids to operate Webb Dock container terminal in Melbourne.

A consortium made up of CMA CGM S.A. – ANL Container Line and Macquarie Specialised Asset Management, has entered a bid, as has Hutchison Port Holdings which already has the right to stevedore in Sydney and Brisbane.

The other two entries, as announced by Port of Melbourne Corporation are:

• Australian International Container Terminals Ltd (AICTL) – (a consortium comprised of International Container Terminal Services Inc and Anglo Ports Pty Ltd); and
• Qube Holdings.

Qube boss Maurice James confirmed last week his company’s bid to operate the new terminal.

In a statement released by port management, the new container terminal was described as the centrepiece of the $1.6bn Port Capacity Project.

Positioned at Webb Dock East, the new facility is offered as a package comprising around 30 hectares of waterfront terminal, a utility ‘off-dock’ area and an adjoining empty-container facility.

The new terminal is expected to handle a minimum 1m containers a year.

Port of Melbourne Corporation chief executive Stephen Bradford said the short-listed bidders will soon be issued with request-for-proposals specifications and be expected to prepare detailed submissions and financial guarantees.

The short-listed bidders will be required to lodge their proposals in September this year and it is expected that the successful bidder will be announced in early 2014.

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