Port of Dampier located in Pilbara of Western Australia continues operations after cyclone ‘Riley’. Pilbara ports Authority published an update on January 28 that the shipping operations at the port of Dampier have resumed in a stage manner, with all inner anchorages opened. Because of the cyclone, Australian’s Pilbara Ports Authority cleared major ports under preparations for the cyclones.
Specifically, tropical cyclone ‘Riley’ is obvious of the Pilbara coast and moves in a West-South Westerly direction.
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Yet, Pilbara Port Authority reported that there were no impacts to shipping operations at the ports of Ashburton and Port Hedland.
Two of Australia’s LNG export facilities are located in the Port of Dampier, the Woodside-operated North West Shelf project and the Pluto LNG facility.
According to the port authority, both of facilities exported an overall of 11.55 million tonnes of LNG from July to the end of 2018.
Concluding, LNG takes the 13.22% of the total exports from the Port of Dampier.
