A new shipping service will connect Bell Bay with interstate ports and China.
Five Great Southern Shipping container vessels will service Bell Bay as of August, with the service calling into Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Fremantle, as well as the Chinese ports of Ningbo, Shanghai and Rizhao. The new shipping service will commence after a deal was struck between Australian-owned GSS and the Chinese Rizhao Port Group.
Tasmanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry CEO Michael Bailey said any additional freight capacity going into China would be of great benefit to Tasmanian producers.