Australian Amalgamated Terminals.
Australian Amalgamated Terminals (AAT) is a multi-user, open-access port facility provider, supporting the general stevedoring industry.
AAT has terminals in several major capital cities on the east coast of Australia, providing services including:
- Breakbulk
- Bulk
- Automotive
- Steel
- General cargo
- Mixed container/breakbulk vessels
AAT also provides fully approved Customs systems and procedures for stevedores and their contracted shipping lines, as well as the latest IT technology and sheds and stevedoring equipment for efficient cargo handling and control through the terminal.
ACCC Undertaking
On 9 April 2025, AAT, Qube and MIRRAT gave a court enforceable undertaking (2025 Undertaking) to the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) to address the ACCC’s competition concerns with Qube’s proposed acquisition of 100 per cent of MIRRAT, which operated the RoRo Automotive Terminal at Webb Dock West in Victoria, as well as the ACCC’s competition concerns with Qube’s acquisition of 100 per cent of AAT in 2016, which resulted in Qube and AAT giving a section 87B in 2016 (2016 Undertaking). Following the commencement of the 2025 Undertaking, the ACCC subsequently withdrew the 2016 Undertaking.
MIRRAT has since changed its name to AAT Webb Dock West.
Under the Undertaking, Qube (and the Terminal Operators, being AAT/AAT Webb Dock West) must permit a person to raise a non-price dispute under the non-price dispute resolution process provided for in the Undertaking. Non-price disputes may relate to such matters as the granting of access, any refusal to grant access or the terms of access. They may also include disputes in relation to whether the Terminal Operators have complied with their open access conditions or their obligations in relation to confidentiality and ring-fencing. Notification to Qube of a non-price dispute can be made by emailing Qube’s company secretary at [email protected].