Westport is the Western Australian government's project to move the state's automated container terminal beside the naval base hosting United States nuclear submarines. These posts follow the decisions and the reporting that bear on it.
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Canberra says its first AUKUS submarine depends on the Henderson dry dock. The route there crosses Westport's channel, and no public risk assessment exists.
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A former Army intelligence officer says the AUKUS submarine base has one way out. Westport's own federal filing calls it the sole channel.
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Western Australia's Westport project would place an automated container terminal under four miles from the base where United States nuclear submarines are due to rotate from 2027.
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We call on the United States to conduct a security risk assessment examining the proposed Westport container port and its potential interactions with AUKUS operations in Cockburn Sound, Western Australia. The assessment should identify and evaluate risks to submarine movements, naval operations, commercial freight traffic in Western Australia and security in Cockburn Sound to inform decisions about the project.
This is not about whether you support AUKUS. Moving all of Western Australia's container freight into a single automated port across the water from HMAS Stirling puts the state's supply chain and the submarine program in the same few miles of water, and no risk assessment of that has been published.
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