Consideration of possible recommendation to revoke declaration of service at the Port of Newcastle (Council’s final views)

Submissions on the Council’s Statement of Preliminary Views and correspondence received by the Council are published below.

At the request of the Council, NERA Economic Consulting (NERA) produced a report dated 8 April 2019, to assist the Council’s consideration of whether declaration of the shipping channel service at the Port of Newcastle would be likely to satisfy the criterion set out in section 44CA(1)(a) of the Act in respect of the coal tenenents market. Interested parties were invited to make written submissions to the Council on the opinions expressed in the report by 5.00pm on 26 April 2019. The NERA report and submissions from interested parties are available below.

Documents

Submissions in relation to the Council’s preliminary views

Pacific National Pty Ltd, 1 February 2019 (PDF, 6.69MB)

Port Waratah Coal Services Limited, 4 February 2019 (PDF, 127KB)

The Bloomfield Group, 4 February 2019 (PDF,765KB)

Yancoal Australia Limited, 4 February 2019 (PDF, 459KB)

Port of Newcastle Operations Pty Ltd, 4 February 2019 (PDF, 376KB)

Newcastle Coal Infrastructure Group, 4 February 2019 (PDF, 209KB)

Glencore Coal Pty Ltd, 4 February 2019 (PDF, 62KB)

Glencore Coal Pty Ltd, Synergies Report, 4 February 2019 (PDF, 605KB)

NSW Minerals Council, 4 February 2019 (PDF, 219KB)

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, 6 February 2019 (PDF, 917KB)

Correspondence

Clifford Chance’s letter to the Council, 19 December 2018 (PDF, 335KB)

The Council’s letter to Clifford Chance, 31 January 2019 (PDF, 624KB)

Clifford Chance’s letter to the Council, 6 March 2019 (PDF, 262KB)

Clifford Chance’s letter to the Council, 15 April 2019 (PDF, 115KB)

Clifford Chance’s letter to the Council, 18 April 2019 (PDF, 97KB)

Report from NERA

NERA Economic Consulting, 8 April 2019 (PDF, 413KB)

Submissions in relation to NERA Report

Port Waratah Coal Services Limited, 24 April 2019 (PDF, 133KB)

The Bloomfield Group, 26 April 2019 (PDF, 512KB)

NSW Minerals Council, 26 April 2019 (PDF, 272KB)

Glencore Coal Pty Ltd, 26 April 2019 (PDF, 69KB)

Glencore Coal Pty Ltd, Synergies Report, 26 April 2019 (PDF, 413KB)

Malabar Coal Limited, 26 April 2019 (PDF, 156KB)