The private sector is playing an increasing role in port development across Western Australia, as rising demand outstrips the government's capacity to deliver.
After 12 years of regulatory and legal battles, building magnate Len Buckeridge is getting ready to proceed with a private port at Cockburn Sound, with potential benefits for many industries.
While most contractors are bracing for a slowdown in WA project work, some international groups like Laing O'Rourke are bolstering their local operation.
When the big players start exiting a sector it's a fair bet things are on the slide; and so it is with with the Lowy family's decision to quit its retail trust.
Mining giant Rio Tinto has appointed the former BHP Billiton executive Chris Lynch as its new chief financial officer, 18 months after he joined Rio as a non-executive director.
If any further evidence were needed that the commodities boom is over, management changes at some of the world's biggest resources companies seals the deal.
MINING construction projects have continued to be fruitful territory for indigenous contractors in Western Australia, with the latest initiative teaming an experienced contracting group with a new
Experienced Aboriginal contracting group Eastern Guruma has teamed up with a new entrant to the sector, Wirlu-murra Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation, to win a $200 million contract in the Pilbar
The majority of employees across Rio Tinto's energy business in Australia will not receive salary increases this year as the miner aims to “secure the long-term strategy” of the division.
The state government has given the green light to Rio Tinto to go ahead with a planned $3 billion expansion of its iron ore mine and power generation infrastructure in the Pilbara.
SAM Walsh has been thrust into the big chair at one of the world's biggest companies, Rio Tinto, which has finally decided to clean up the last of the mess left by the GFC.
Until now the skills shortage which has dogged the resources sector has been all about a lack of tradesmen and technical professionals whereas the Rio Tinto crisis reveals that the real problem is
Sam Walsh has the chance of a lifetime to head one of the world's biggest companies, but he won't be chief executive of Rio Tinto for long, and he's only there because the board has finally decided
Sam Walsh has been promoted to the top job at Rio Tinto, effective immediately, taking over from Tom Albanese who has quit as chief executive after the miner revealed a $US14 billion writedown.
It's an odd day when people selling something say the price will be cheaper tomorrow, but if you think about what has been happening in the market for WA's most important commodity export, iron ore
Gina Rinehart's private company Hancock Prospecting Pty Ltd has belatedly revealed the scale of its income and profits by lodging annual returns for 2010 and 2011 with the Australian Securities and
Engineering contractor Sinclair Knight Merz has announced a renewal of its engineering, procurement and construction management agreement with Rio Tinto through to 2015.
RETAIL giants Wesfarmers and Woolworths continue to employ more people in Western Australia than any other private sector employers, with the introduction of Sunday trading boosting part-time and c
