text: The Dampier Base will now comprise:- 
  
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  An “all tides” approach channel to a minimum depth of 6 metres 
  
  A wharf offering 7.5 metres depth at low tide, featuring a heavy loadout section to 
  
  accommodate modules of up to 1500 tonnes to onshore projects on the Burrup Peninsular 
  
  and adjacent mining centres. A subsea pipe reel loading facility will encourage the use of 
  
  spool ships in the region for deepwater pipelay. On a project by project basis, pipeline 
  
  protection rock dumping, specialist vessel rig up activities and the like will be facilitated, 
  
  as will dry and bulk cargo handling, refuelling, watering and all categories of waste 
  
  reception. The joint Commonwealth and WA State Government initiative to establish 
  
  an integrated industrial estate at Jervoise Bay (south of Perth) serviced by high wide load 
  
  corridors from Perth’s industrial areas will see the heavy capacity wharf playing a strategic 
  
  role in major capital works in the Pilbara, leading to significant cost savings. 