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Speaker 1: Now we know that the Airport Development Group has confirmed

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Speaker 1: that they're a step closer to commencing construction of a

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Speaker 1: new eighty megaleit diesel storage facility and fuel pipeline to

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Speaker 1: be built at Darwin's East Arm, which is adjacent to

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Speaker 1: the existing Vopak and Crowley facilities. The East Arm location

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Speaker 1: is going to provide direct shipping and truck access. Now

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Speaker 1: joining us on the line to tell us more about

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Speaker 1: the situation is Ross Bains, the Airport Development Group's executive

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Speaker 1: General Manager of Property and Terminal. Good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Ross, Morning, Katy, Good morning all. Ross.

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Speaker 1: Tell us a little bit more about this facility.

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Speaker 2: So look, it's exciting times again for Dahena and the

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Speaker 2: territory because we're now a step closer to commencing construction

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Speaker 2: of a new eighteen megalita diesel storage facility and fuel

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Speaker 2: pipeline at and adjacent to the existing Vowpack site and

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Speaker 2: the Crowley which is currently under construction.

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Speaker 1: And so Ross, what will it mean in terms of

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Speaker 1: I guess you know at the moment for territory and

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Speaker 1: there's so many people worried about the cost of diesel

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Speaker 1: and the cost of petrol. But what is a diesel

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Speaker 1: storage facility. What's that sort of mean for everyday territorians

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Speaker 1: listening today?

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Speaker 2: Okay, So the facility is open access, so any supply

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Speaker 2: of diesel fuel worldwide can put their product through this facility.

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Speaker 2: So whether it's Coltext, whether it's one of the major

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Speaker 2: players b HP, Viva etc. Or it's a smaller player

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Speaker 2: who wants to put their product through this facility, they'll

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Speaker 2: be able to do so. Up until now they've only

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Speaker 2: had one choice it's Fowpack, So there's a quasi monopoly

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Speaker 2: that Vabat had. Now there's competition in the marketplace, which

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Speaker 2: should god prices down. It is now to be a

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Speaker 2: choice for storage, so the storage cost will be reduced

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Speaker 2: and that should flow through to the bout for everyday territories.

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Speaker 1: Geez I reckon, people listening this morning will be pleased

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Speaker 1: to hear this and hoping that it's happening sooner rather

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Speaker 1: than later. But ross, how far off are we from

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Speaker 1: this sort of getting underway?

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Speaker 2: Okay, So the facility we're jointly funded by ourselves, the

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Speaker 2: Airport Development Group in Australian government through the boosting Australia's

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Speaker 2: diesel storage program, and we do thank the Commonwealth Government

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Speaker 2: for their support and providing a grant to get this

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Speaker 2: facility up and going. Now we're now getting into detailed design.

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Speaker 2: They'll go through the planning approval process and the current

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Speaker 2: target is to start on site the next dry in

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 1: Right, so it's not too far off.

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Speaker 2: No, So there's obviously you could appreciate it. This is

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Speaker 2: very technical in this area. So getting the right people

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Speaker 2: in the room, getting the right consultants, for the right designers,

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Speaker 2: et cetera, to get on site, get it all the

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Speaker 2: approvals and get going. And then once we start on

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Speaker 2: site in twenty three, the anticipated construction completion is towards

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Speaker 2: the end of twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 1: And ross, what about this pipeline. Where's the pipeline going

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Speaker 1: to go to? And how's that sort of form part

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Speaker 1: of the project.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So the pipeline, it's the service both the civilian

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Speaker 2: and military operations of the Darin Aero drove so diad

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Speaker 2: Are International Airport and of course rat based Darwin. What

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Speaker 2: it does, first and foremost it improves the safety of

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Speaker 2: the delivery of fuel, so we get all these fuel

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Speaker 2: trucks off the road that travel every day twenty four

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Speaker 2: to seven from East arm to the airport, both sides

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Speaker 2: of the airport and were's the improvements in aircraft refueling practices,

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Speaker 2: So this will be an underground pipeline for safety and

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Speaker 2: security or to service and increase the capacity and the

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Speaker 2: speed in which we re fuel planes and Ross.

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Speaker 1: Are there any environmental concerns here because I know, you know,

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Speaker 1: when you talk about the development of a lot of

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Speaker 1: different things, but particularly something like fuel storage facility, there

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Speaker 1: will be some who are quite concerned about any environmental

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Speaker 1: impacts that it may create.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely Katy, and those concerns will be addressed and mitigated

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Speaker 2: where possible. We're very cognizant of that. The last thing

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Speaker 2: we might give them the location is for a fuel

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Speaker 2: spill or one of the tanks to rupture. These will

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Speaker 2: be the current state of the art tanks. They will

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Speaker 2: be into the highest bonded construction that can be possible,

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Speaker 2: So those concerns will be addressed and they'll be mitigated. Ross.

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Speaker 1: When it comes to the construction of these fuel storage tanks,

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Speaker 1: is you know, is this work going to be done

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Speaker 1: by locals and is it going to mean that there's

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Speaker 1: jobs for locals as well, I don't really understand how

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Speaker 1: the fuel storage tanks, you know, like how exactly it

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Speaker 1: works longer term. But is there going to be jobs

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Speaker 1: for locals?

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Speaker 2: Well, absolutely, Katie. As you know with previous discussions we've

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Speaker 2: had something the Airport Development Group is very proud of

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Speaker 2: and in particular focus on DAWAN. Is every building on

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Speaker 2: this airport's being built by local construction companies using local tradesmen.

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Speaker 2: The one proviser I'll put on this provided the technical

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Speaker 2: expertise exists within the territory, and if it does, there

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Speaker 2: will be a territory and builder selected then will be

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Speaker 2: supporting locals.

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Speaker 1: Well, it sounds like it's going to be a good thing,

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Speaker 1: and I think that at this point in time when

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Speaker 1: so many people are worried about the cost of fuel,

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Speaker 1: we've seen a skyrocket and we all understand the reasons why.

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Speaker 1: But if there is different ways that those fuel prices

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Speaker 1: can be brought down, and if it is going to

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Speaker 1: mean that potentially it will bring those prices down, I

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Speaker 1: think most people listening this morning will be quite pleased

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Speaker 1: to hear about this project. Ross Bain's good to speak

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Speaker 1: to you this morning. We appreciate your time.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. Thank you all,