How This Port Became The Largest Loading Port In Australia | Port Hedland | Spark

Australia is the 6th largest country in the world and home to twenty-one million people. It’s an enormous landmass with extensive resources and massive industrial operations underpinning its economy. It’s a country where big ideas are dreamt and then built.
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[@nickpaloubas1663]

Incredible loading time. Very organized port facilities.

[@antonmursid3505]

Antonmursid🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩

[@chrismarsh1067]

7yrs old this and it’s now twice the size

[@davidteeman7772]

Chris Marsh x

[@saulsavelis575]

2012, so 8 years old

[@byzan5305]

1:19 this is the Port of Port Hedland, ah i see

[@bad71hd]

Aussies always say the word POWER, WITH MORE POWER than the rest of the words

[@alanerickson2391]

VERY INTERESTING, THANK YOU

[@stormworks4882]

5 minutes into the documentary, they have re iterated a dozen times that "ITS THE BIGGEST BULK EXPORT PORT IN THE WORLD"

[@GodKing804]

STONKS

[@bretthansel8897]

000m

[@chadsimmons6347]

The Chinese are buying up iron rich land in Africa, Aussie contracts are going down. Biden supports the communist theft of African resources & helping the rich get richer!

[@Kodakcompactdisc]

It is big tho

[@webbcabell2827]

Awesome video. Very well done.

[@Pattyboytheking]

Does anyone know if this is the biggest bulk export port?

[@Kodakcompactdisc]

I think it just might be.

[@ryanlewis3391]

Spark you are obviously going to get alot of views on this video so i only ask one thing from you and that is that when you are doing this Australian series could you please put some donation links in the description of the videos that go to help the firefighters with these fires that are ravaging across this beautiful country

[@tonymiller225]

Beautiful ?? Its a desert with gum trees and more gum trees

[@vintagedaisky]

i was once a welder in 2023 in that bertwharf bhp❤❤❤

[@tayfunbayhan]

Great Video

[@gavinperry7237]

How do you deal with the iron ore getting wet during cyclones and affecting the stability of the product as it is shipped across the ocean ?

[@timmyjones1921]

Awesome Video .

[@junfeng4293]

Good memories of being involved in the expansion under fmg and building the RT tugs!

[@johnlshilling1446]

What I don't understand is why Australia isn't heavily investing in Wind, and especially Solar, and using your inexhaustible access to renewable energy for developing this overabundance of iron ore? Instead of shipping ore, your country is perfectly situated to manufacture the finished product. Steel... not to mention the other metals and minerals that could be refined with abundant "free" energy. After addressing these potential cash farms, supplying the rest of Australia's energy needs, some underwater cables could supply additional income from supplying electricity to much of Indonesia.., much like Morocco is doing with the UK...

[@jerielmodesto3588]

Watching this while currently in Port Headland Anchorage waiting for Berthing and next port will be Lianyungang, China

[@andyramone8497]

Thos channel is the best!!!!!!

[@fernandosantosacordionista4010]

muito bom

[@alexzuniga3998]

Nice 👍

[@rickcouture2156]

amazing Aussie......

[@dirt3fmodified748]

i think i heard somewhere that this is the sixth largest port in the world

[@richardmorgan3093]

13th , I think China has the the top 3 Singapore, etc. But I think it's the biggest Bulk tonnage in the world

[@travissmith7753]

Bulk export.

[@Kodakcompactdisc]

A guy in the pub told me it’s the 6th biggest by weight 🤷‍♂️

[@SangsungMeansToCome]

Beautiful clean ore!

[@sanjosengayon7376]

Mdddddmdddd3j2

[@bad71hd]

Gooda skill ah...

[@mughug9616]

How much of the profit is reinvested back into Australia, apart from the employment, facilities, railway and worker accommodations? Keep seeing fantastic amounts of money being made, but I wondered how much of that trickles down to the ordinary Australian citizen and Australia's infrastructure in general?

[@Kodakcompactdisc]

247 million tons in one year, surely after a while Australia will become a bit lopsided if this carries on.

[@whydidyoureadthis5271]

thanks for the advertisements

[@TheGameKat]

What audience is this directed at? Those with no short-term memory? Every fact is repeated multiple times.

[@dddsss2023]

somehow you gotta fill the 45 min goal

[@piglet577]

Nice Doc

[@bad71hd]

Theta co sign of Epsilon!

[@kenmelrac]

Data from 2010-2011, how about current info??

[@nameinvalid69]

to think that the salt that I put into my mouth was trampled over by bulldozers.... not sure how I felt about that. 🤣

[@saulsavelis575]

2012

[@genli5603]

It's appalling that Australia doesn't refine its own iron ore. Talk about shipping jobs overseas.

[@saltymonke3682]

some were refined in Oz to make ships and others. the problem is, there's not enough workers already

[@ASK-ko9qx]

Who are they going to refine for ? Australia doesn't have the manpower to manufacturing much of anything.

[@bad71hd]

½ a head! No 17/64ths of a head!

[@jamesdavis5096]

conshumer?

[@gtbkts]

Commenting for support

[@nelramos5942]

Hi spark do you hire truck driver thanks

[@bad71hd]

He makes ' Contact by OTTA?.. DID HE MEAN TO ENUNCIATE THE WORD: "W A T E R "???

[@bad71hd]

Co sign of Theta!

[@robertbest4398]

Rotterdam the biggest port I would say

[@bad71hd]

So what happens when in Aussie land when a Cyclone forms over Land? Or a tornado forms over water!? Come on! Who gets it

[@bad71hd]

What IF I DONT WANT TO THINK ABOUT ' THOSE ' THINGS'?

[@chrisclarke7828]

This is solely about how good we are, how big we are, how aussie we are, look at us we are the biggest, its all about being aussie. If all the me me me was taken out the film would be 8 minutes long.

[@bad71hd]

Or "FORD IS QUE'?!

[@bad71hd]

Infinitely MOORE POWA FILL?

[@bad71hd]

Or" FOR TISS QUE"?

[@chinawoll2662]

I ENJOY WATCHING GRANDNESS!!! SINCE I AM AN AMERICAN I AM USED TO GRANDNESS ADMIRE OTHERS WHO ARE ON THAT ROAD. CHINA WOLL

[@bad71hd]

This " AIR EE URR")? WHAT TIE FAQ IS AN ARIER?

[@travissmith7753]

A bulk port. Biggest in the world. Bulk port.

[@learnerm3120]

In the past, the British would get raw material from their colonies, use them to manufacture finished products which were then shipped back to the colonies. China has assumed that role today and is the new colonial master of not only Australia, but the west in general.

[@robertbest4398]

The British civilised most of world colonialism they try to rule by harts minds Chinese not do like that my freind you lucky eh

[@JeffreyOrnstein]

More like an infomercial than a documentary. Disappointing.

[@antonmursid3505]

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[@conanomega7999]

2 parts look like forza horizon 3

[@jamesbieniek6583]

By 5:00 the word port lost all meaning.

[@rattfink3285]

How many of these operations would be needed to re-pay AU$7.5T in country debt ?

[@CaptSam-so2pq]

I waz ther

[@antebellum45]

Now that China's economy is significantly slowing down, how will the port deal with that?

[@naturalmystics-kd9vt]

Just imagine so much wealth and the native people live in poverty look how much raw materials that come from the earth and the native people live in slums with out education or food

[@bad71hd]

FORTIS QUE???

[@bad71hd]

4 DISC QUE? ⛑️

[@lovensoflaherty5425]

&5

[@mazedmomtaz10magoras86]

BMW 6 doors car shipments

[@karlomoharic3992]

if communication is so critical how about learning chinese

[@tigersharkzh]

Australia lies at the bottom of the globe? WTF! Australia is closer to the equator than the south pole, even the most southern tip of Tasmania is closer to the equator than the south pole. There is land at the bottom of the globe, it's called Antarctica, not Australia.

[@tigersharkzh]

Australia doesn't have the longest coast line in the world, they're 6th and Port Headland is ranked 8th by tonnage not 1st.

[@tryingharder6392]

This is marketing, at it's worst. Presented as entertainment. And, they repeat things much too often. Interesting photography however, so all is not lost.

[@mazedmomtaz10magoras86]

Babuminu11

[@pval6838]

They a . N ea

[@gammatt2513]

Australia is exploited for ore and receives very little of the money made of the resources exported from here but do contribute greatly to world wide emissions.

[@nathang59]

Gammat t sucks to suck I guess eh

[@pval6838]

Stripe shirt. No home for me.

[@Del-Canada]

Australier.

[@danstrayer111]

They have to tell us what steel is used for? Really?

[@sarkeel]

Australia is committing the same mistake India is making.Iron ore should never be exported. Value addition like ingots or mild steel or special steels should be manufactured and then exported. Value of exports will increase multifold!

[@wallacewood2126]

Pretty stupid to ship ore instead of steel. Aussies ship coal to the chin also. Hmmm...Iron ore + coal = steel.

[@hodl2082]

And we buy shit cheap steel back of them

[@williebeamish5879]

@@hodl2082 sad isn't it

[@sacdiyamustaqbal5939]

welcome to Somalia

[@bad71hd]

So these lame ships are only 962 footers.. we reg get 1500 footers here in Wisconsin...

[@Digger63]

repeat repeat repeat must think we are thick /

[@sergeinz]

Im first to comment?

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You must be

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Made your day with a reply and a like too, there you go

[@sergeinz]

@@atilaszlo8288 Thanks u did make my day

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[@R.U.1.2.]

Wrong forum, try a Wildlife Channel.

[@pval6838]

Asian is teasing me. Says Asian mob bothers him.

[@CarlosGonzalez-kt5be]

Australia !!..pleases ..STOPPED to salel mineral to China !.

[@bad71hd]

MANG GA NESE? NOOO... MAG.. IN NEISE...

[@zivanata7790]

The hurt grouse intraperitonally print because guitar regularly wish save a accidental pajama. impossible, inconclusive effect

[@R.U.1.2.]

Wrong forum, try Sesame Street.

[@sonid4205]

ive been there many times, not a happy place

[@dischargesummary8794]

ALLAH HUAKBAR 👺

[@mattwoodside9921]

why is this content from 2013? what could have possibly taken you 7 years to produce this mediocre video? It just doesn't make any sense that it should take this long for something to have made its way from recording to production. Literally at 6 minutes in the guy is talking about 2010-11 figures, 2012 figures, and 2013 expectations. This is absolutely unacceptable that you've taken so long to sit on this content before publishing it.

[@mattwoodside9921]

the more I see of spark videos the more I cannot fathom how you're literally a decade behind the present times. Update or close your channel, imo.

[@Fabes002]

Great more help to the Communists.

[@PACstove]

I wonder how many people are trying to defect from communist Australia right now. I'd be stowing away on one of those ships like three year's ago. I hope some of you can still get out. Prayers going out to you free Australians.

[@saltymonke3682]

this so called "communist" Australia has better economic freedom index than US. In fact, even Sweden has better score than US