达尔文港99年租约
2015.11.30
中企获澳大利亚达尔文港99年租赁权(图)
2015-10-16 07:46:25 风凰
达尔文港(资料图)
“岚桥集团在投资与创新方面有着出色的成绩和经验,能够支持我们实现发展,促进贸易和就业……我们相信岚桥集团能够凭借其在亚洲的市场地位、关系网络和经验给北领地带来利益”,盖尔斯说。北领地政府表示,交易收入将用于投资新基础设施;将通过适当安排确保港口雇员、用户和政府利益得到妥善保护。岚桥集团确认将保持港口现有员工队伍不变2018年6月企业协议到期前不会进行裁员在港口设施使用上会采取稳定且具有竞争力的定价机制。
达尔文港2014-2015年度货物运输量为340万吨,其中一半是与中国的货物贸易,大部分为矿石。受铁矿石出口量大幅减少影响,达尔文港2014-2015年度货运量与上年相比下降40%,但经这里出口的活牛数量增长了51%,达到61.3万头。
岚桥集团澳大利亚公司常务董事迈克尔·休斯说,该集团将大力发展双向贸易。岚桥集团计划未来25年向达尔文港投资2亿澳元,促进澳大利亚与中国的贸易和旅游联系。达尔文港预计将在拉动北领地经济腾飞上发挥重要作用。岚桥集团表示,将利用广泛的商业网络促进北领地石油天然气、矿产和活畜出口,支持入境旅游,并向亚洲商界推介当地投资机遇。岚桥集团有意在达尔文和中国之间举办大型活动,邀请政府和主要企业高级代表,包括航空公司、基础设施投资人和潜在贸易合伙人前来,加强两地联系和交流。
岚桥集团对于北领地入境旅游市场呈现的相关投资机遇尤为关注,认为存在巨大的合伙投资机会。
红色标记即达尔文港所在地
澳大利亚贸易和投资部长安德鲁·罗布说:“这对于北领地乃至澳洲全国都是很好的结果。有力地印证了中澳自贸协议签署后澳大利亚与中国之间商业关系得到加强。岚桥集团对达尔文港的投资会大力刺激澳洲北部发展,刺激农业、资源与能源和经济基础设施领域上游供应链投资的增长”。
岚桥集团为中国私营企业集团,在山东省北海州湾运营一年吞吐量3000万吨的港口。岚桥集团计划将名下整体港口吞吐量提升至每年2亿吨以上,相当于达尔文港当前容量的65倍。该集团同时也在中国大陆投资酒店、旅游、贸易、制造、房地产和石化行业。在澳大利亚通过子公司WestsideCorporation持有油气资产。
据澳大利亚媒体报道,澳多个州政府都在计划出售港口,希望将收益用于医疗、教育、交通设施建设等方面。西澳大利亚州弗里曼特尔港已准备出售,维多利亚州也计划将墨尔本港标价60亿澳元推向市场。
去年,中国招商局集团与澳大利亚黑斯廷斯基金管理公司共同出资17.5亿澳元,从新南威尔士州购得世界最大煤炭港口纽卡斯尔港的租赁权。
2014 年,基础设施领域的几项大手笔交易将澳大利亚并购总值推升到了2011年最高、2007年第二高的水平,包括中国招商局集团联合澳洲HastingsFundsManagemen以17.5亿澳元价格,获得全球最大煤炭出口港新州纽卡斯尔港运营权,租期98年。目前澳洲多地政府正着力推进港口设施私有化,维州政府于今年5月确认将出让墨尔本港租赁权益,期限50年。西澳政府亦准备推动历史悠久的弗里曼特尔港私有化。
山东民企23亿租澳港口 美媒担心海军陆战队被监视
2015-11-19 09:32
中国一家民营企业租了个澳大利亚港口,引发海外持续聚焦。 那么,岚桥集团为何会去澳大利亚买港口? 岚桥集团在中国有日照岚桥港,在澳大利亚有达尔文港,服务于双向贸易,这就是我们响应‘一带一路’倡议的具体举 措。” 除了美国海军陆战队,前述《纽约时报》报道还提到了岚桥集团的所谓“军方背景”。 来自澎湃新闻 |
NT chief defiant on Darwin Port lease
沃洲北领地区首长反驳媒体质问, 是因中央政府迟迟不肯发展北领地区所以才租给外国人来开发.
Northern Territory chief minister Adam Giles has remained defiant about the controversial leasing of Darwin Port while warning Canberra not to intervene in local affairs.
He says the NT government agreed to lease the port to Chinese-owned firm Landbridge for 99 years after the federal government ignored repeated requests to develop it.
"It has been knocked back year after year after year after year," he told ABC radio.
"So we've taken the initiative of taking a different process to get money for the port."
Mr Giles welcomed an investigation by the Senate as part of a broad ranging inquiry into the sale of strategic national assets to foreigners.
"It will be a good chance to put forward the Territory's case," he said, adding that he wasn't concerned the inquiry could overturn the deal.
"If the feds sought to do that, to attack the sovereignty of the NT and the sovereignty of business investment in Australia, I think it would be a sure sign federalism is failing."
The half-a-billion dollars generated from the lease is already in NT coffers.
Mr Giles said he disliked southern intervention in NT affairs, and accused Labor and the unions of pushing "xenophobic anti-Chinese sentiment".
He also rejected the suggestion the NT should have consulted with the US before agreeing on the deal.
"I think we are mature enough to be able to guide the development of our economy and make decisions on behalf of the Territory."
© AAP 2015
Yes, a Chinese Company Leased Darwin Port. So What?
是的, 有中国公司租赁达尔文港, 那又怎样?
By Greg Austin
November 19, 2015
In Australia, parts of the northern port of Darwin have been leased to a Chinese company for 99 years. This has sparked a firestorm of criticism in Australia media about the perceived security threat — a threat that is overblown and overhyped.
Two wharves in the port have been leased to a Chinese company called Landbridge. The company already operates in Australia, including Queensland. According to its website, “Landbridge Industry Australia Pty Ltd is a privately held Australian entity wholly owned by Landbridge Group Co., Ltd,” which is “a large scale privately owned enterprise based in Shandong Province of China.” It is hardly the most transparent company in Australia or the world.
Australia’s conservative print media outlet The Australian newspaper reported that “Landbridge is owned by Chinese billionaire Ye Cheng, who is a senior Communist Party official.” I would like to know which senior post he occupies in the Chinese Communist Party. He has acknowledged that he is a “National Committee Member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and the Deputy of Shandong Provincial People’s Congress.” This does not equate to being a senior official of the Communist Party. Perhaps the newspaper has not noticed the anti-corruption campaign in China, which has seen the complete separation between billionaire status and holding a “senior position” in the Communist Party.
The Australian newspaper and other media sources, such as the Australian Financial Review, have reported that Landbridge is closely connected with the Chinese armed forces because it maintains militia units and even a communist party committee. Such connections are normal for big Chinese companies and mean little in terms of their international operations. These arrangements are largely for internal political control. Land-based militia personnel, barely trained, serve exclusively in their home provinces.
Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) director, Peter Jennings, has linked the proposed lease to concerns about the strategic balance in the South China Sea (See: “The Myth of a Strategic Imbalance in the South China Sea”). On November 13, Jennings, who has been leading the public charge against the government’s decision on the port lease, wrote with a co-author that “[i]n a worst case scenario, operational control of the Port of Darwin could facilitate intelligence collection.”
The commentators did not explain how the lease deal for two wharves gave the Chinese company “operational control of the Port of Darwin.” It clearly did not. As Trade Minister Andrew Robb observed (and was patently obvious to anyone with any knowledge of Australian law): “The fact of the matter is Defense has step-in rights, so if something happens for whatever reason and they want to take control of the port, they can.”
The good news is that Australia’s prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, and other government ministers from defense to trade, do not agree with Jennings about the Darwin Port issue. After President Barack Obama unwisely raised the issue of undue Chinese influence in future military uses of the port of Darwin with Turnbull, the latter rather ebulliently dismissed the assertion as groundless.
Turnbull said: “The fact that Chinese investors were interested in investing in infrastructure in Australia is … hardly a secret.” He added, “And, under our legislation, the Department of Defense or this Federal Government can step in and take control of infrastructure like this in circumstances where it’s deemed necessary for purposes of Defense.”
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Infographic: A map of areas included in Port of Darwin lease