PERTH (miningweekly.com) – Indian major Adani has awarded an A$82-million contract to Rockhampton-based Austrak to supply concrete sleepers to the Carmichael coal and rail project, in Queensland.
“Adani promised that regional Queenslanders would benefit from our project, and here’s proof that we honour our promises and we care about regional Queenslanders,” said Adani’s Australian head of country and CEO Jeyakumar Janakaraj.
The concrete sleeper contract comes shortly after Adani awarded a A$74-million contract to Arrium Mining and Materials for the supply of around 54 000 t of railway tracks.
Adani recently struck a tax deal with the Queensland government regarding royalty payments for its $16.5-billion Carmichael project. While the details of the deal remained obscured, Adani has promised to pay every cent of its full royalties bill for the proposed 60-million-tonne-a-year thermal coal project.