Port Kembla

Fast forward to today and it turns out that another...

One of Twiggy's climate change projects, the hilariously titled Floating Port Kembla Energy Terminal is, according to The Australian, arguably one of the largest white elephants on Australia's east coast, Kelsaprees.

Sure, back in the day, Twiggy and the bloke on the left, their squadron energy chief, Executive Stuart Johnson, declared that their $250 million terminal... could deliver 75% of New South Wales gas needs by 2022.

Stuart Johnson excitedly told the ABC at the time, we bring in a vessel called an FSRU, Floating Storage Regasification Unit.

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So those two are going to end up in Port Kembla.

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order me something? Yeah, the first one.

Uh, I did run a social enterprise.

It was called Green Connect, and, uh, it, it was this tiny little thing down in, um, Port Kembla in Wollongong, the farm, and some labor hire and, and a zero waste business.

And it was just doing so much good socially and environmentally and had an economic model that, that drove it, and I just went, "This is the holy grail of everything I've been looking for." I'd, I'd come out of the business world and really moved into the purpose world.

I'd been running the cardiac department at the children's hospitals for a while, but really was looking for what it, what that nexus was between business and good.

Brothers.

Hey, uh, Raps, bro, um, good to hear some, uh, someone from Port Kembla on the airwaves, bro.

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Yeah, cuzzy.

It, it was of course a significant Australian industrial facility.

It provided manganese for, uh, historically for Whyalla and for the Port Kembla steel plants.

It was also, uh, a significant input into US steel production, uh, so it played an important role.

Uh, it was run into the ground by its previous owner, and the point I was trying to make as I was wrapping up is it-- for a manufacturing facility, it needs care every day, every week, particularly a smelter.

And once you have an EV, the likelihood of you going away from that in the future is gonna be very small, I personally think.

Now, some other major EV brands are advising customers that it could be three to six months from purchase to delivery, and also some are struggling with communicating clearly about the different stages, whether the vehicle has been built yet, whether it's been put on a ship yet, whether it's landed at Port Kembla or other places.

How does BYD make that easy for fleet managers so they can tell their teams when the vehicles are likely to arrive and be ready to use?

So a big part of our strategy is, and don't get me wrong, we'll never have this exactly perfect, but a big part of our strategy is ensuring we have a lot of stock available.