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Australian Halliburton Railway To Fast-Track Uranium ExportsWhen Halliburton CEO Dave Lesar and a "cast of thousands" of Australian dignitaries launched the Adelaide-Darwin in early 2004 everybody was talking about what a boon to Australian exports Mr Cheney's conquest of the Australian desert would be. Of course, nobody was talking about uranium at the time.... Well, the inevitable has happened, and we're going to see boxcars of yellowcake trundling from Adelaide to Darwin within the next few years, Immediately following the announcement of opening of a new Australian uranium mine (at Honeymoon in South Australia's far north east The Chief Executive of the Northern Territory Minerals Council Kazia Purick yesterday. Mr Purick said that ""This company's product, the uranium oxide, may well have to be put on the train from Adelaide through to Darwin and be exported over our port, because Darwin's habour, Darwin's port is the only port in Australia that can export uranium product, the uranium oxide." This statement strongly contradicts a report in the Weekend Australian of January 2005. [extract}
In December Last year the findings of the trial were unknown, with the railway's freight management company still waiting for word from the mines owners. At the time Freightlink CEO John Fullerton said that There aren't large numbers of boxes of uranium that are exported but it's still an important part of our business - it helps establish the international trade through the Port of Darwin." The current shareholders of FreightLink include Kellogg Brown &
Root (36.3%), Barclay Mowlem (13.9%), John Holland (11.4%), National
Asset Management (7.3%), Macmahon (7.0%), The railway was designed and constructed by a joint venture between Macmahon Holdings (10%), KBR (50%), Barclay Mowlem (20%) and John Holland (20%).
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