Canada’s CSL Group has secured a long-term contract to supply a transshipment vessel for a salt and sulphate of potash export facility in western Australia.
The 21-year contract, worth AUD 598m ($399m), has been secured from ASX-listed BCI Minerals Ltd, which is developing the Mardie Salt and Potash Project in Cape Preston.
CSL Group will initially time charter an existing transshipment vessel to transport salt and potash 12 to 15 nautical miles (28 km) from BCI Minerals’ jetty loadout facility, to load ships of up to capesize while a new transshipment vessel is built.
