The North-West
The Kimberley and Pilbara Regions
Comprised of the Pilbara and Kimberley regions, North-Western Australia is the closest part of Australia’s mainland, to India. Port Hedland in the Pilbara region, is the largest port by cargo tonnage in Australia, and Australia’s closest deep-water port to Asia and the Middle East.
The Kimberley region to the north of the Pilbara, contains large tracts of arable land within the Ord River Irrigation Area (ORIA). The ORIA is watered by Lake Argyle, the Australian mainland’s largest body of freshwater by volume (10,763 million cubic metres). Agriproduct from the ORIA is exported via the nearby Port of Wyndham.
The Kimberley Ports
The Kimberley Ports Authority (KPA) administers the Kimberley ports of Derby, Yampi Sound and Wyndham. These three ports support the development of North-Western Australia’s core agriculture, aquaculture, energy, extractive, and tour-cum-hospitality industry domains within the Kimberley region.
The Kimberley Region
The historic coastal Town of Broome in the Shire of Derby/West Kimberley and the inland Town of Kununurra in the Shire of Wyndham/East Kimberley, are the Kimberley region's two main service hubs. The Broome International Airport offers daily flights to Perth and many of Western Australia's regional centres, and to…
The Ord River Irrigation Area
Supporting productive tropical agricultural land growing a wide range of traditional and specialty crops, the Ord River Irrigation Area (ORIA) in the Kimberley region of North-Western Australia, is developing around mainland Australia's largest freshwater storage body, Lake Argyle. An alliance of experienced ORIA farmers and growers, collaborating with government and…
The Pilbara Ports
The Pilbara is serviced by two-deep water ports offering general cargo facilities. Port Hedland, located on the outskirts of the historical Town of Port Hedland; and, the Port of Dampier, located close to the modern, well-serviced City of Karratha. Both ports offer access to Strategic Industrial Areas (SIAs). Designed for…
The City of Karratha
Located 1,535 kms (954 miles) north of Perth and 241 kms (150 miles) south-west of Port Hedland, the modern city of Karratha in the Pilbara region, adjoins the Port of Dampier. The 4,400 hectares of the Anketell Strategic Industrial Area (Anketell SIA), falls within the Local Planning Strategy of the…
Pilbara Conference Centres
The City of Karratha and the Town of Port Hedland offer the Pilbara region of North-Western Australia a range of versatile conference venues and event spaces that are designed to cater for regional and/or national and/or international corporate and private functions.
Port Hedland International Airport
The Pilbara is serviced by two main public airports. The Port Hedland International Airport (PHE) and Karratha Airport (KTA). PHE offers direct flights to a from Singapore; flights to Melbourne, Perth and Sydney; and flights to regional airports in North Western Australia. https://www.porthedlandairport.com.au/. KTA offers twice-weekly flights to and from…