The performance of Western Australian ports

The purpose of this report is to describe and assess the performance of Western Australia’s eight port authorities.2 The context for this research is a February 2006 report by Access Economics prepared for the Australian Council for Infrastructure Development (AusCID) (A Scorecard of the Design of Economic Regulation of Infrastructure, July 2006). This report aimed to rate “the extent to which the regime [for third party access] in each jurisdiction is designed in a way that is likely to foster good decisions and outcomes”; it explicitly did “not rate the decisions, or outcomes, of each jurisdiction’s regulatory regime or the industry that it regulates”