Vickie Chapman, South Australia’s Planning and Local Government Minister, has turned down an application to build a new port at Kangaroo Island.
Kangaroo Island Plantation Timbers wanted to build a timber and woodchip export facility at Smith Bay, on Kangaroo Island, which is about 120 km to the south west of Adelaide.
The port would have consisted of:
https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/kangaroo-island-proposed-port-prohibited/
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A major new facility for the United Kingdom timber trade has opened up on the River Medway in Kent following a £27 (US$35.46) million investment by operators Peel Ports.
The site at Wellmarsh provides scope for storage, processing and handling of all timber types.
The facility is based at the Port of Sheerness, which is the largest terminal of its kind in the UK, handling 1.1 million tonnes of timber and forest products a year.
The port already has 40-acres of timber storage facilities and Peel...
https://container-news.com/new-timber-facility-opens-sheerness-port/
