AUSTRALIAN grain handlers are under scrutiny as Canberra’s competition regulators today launched a five-state inquiry into access for bulk wheat terminals in ports.
CBH, GrainCorp and ABB Grain must get approval for their own and third-party use of the facilities by October to keep accreditation under the Wheat Export Marketing Act 2008.
The terminals involved include Western Australia’s Albany, Esperance, Geraldton and Kwinana, South Australia’s Port Adelaide Outer Harbour, Port Giles, Wallaroo, Port Lincoln and Thevenard, Queensland’s Fisherman Islands-Brisbane, Gladstone and Mackay, New South Wales’s Newcastle and Port Kembla and Victoria’s Geelong and Portland.
The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission is seeking submissions from interested parties by 29 May 2009.
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