The Cairns region’s mining capabilities will be marketed to mining contractors during a series of meetings in Brisbane this week.

Led by Advance Cairns CEO Ross Contarino and Chairman Russell Beer, the two-day mission (starting today) will include meetings with International and Australian Managing Contractors who have won major mining contracts in Papua New Guinea, and are based in Brisbane. “Our series of meetings with second tier mining contractors to Papua New Guinea is about putting the Cairns region and its strong mining-related capabilities on their radar,” Mr Contarino said.

While in Brisbane, Mr Contarino and Mr Beer will also attend the 30^th Anniversary Dinner of the Australia Papua New Guinea Business Council. “The dinner will provide us with the opportunity to make some important contacts and further build on the relationship between the Cairns region and PNG,” said.

The trip follows a similar visit to Western Australia last week when Mr Contarino and Cairns Chamber of Commerce President Jeremy Blockey met with mining contractors to sell the capabilities of the Cairns region to position the region as a major Fly-in/Fly-out (FIFO) hub in the growing mining sectors in Papua New Guinea and Western Australia.

The four-day mission to Perth and Karratha proved fruitful, with negotiations underway to secure a regional office in Cairns for one of the contractor companies, and another now investigating a direct FIFO arrangement between Cairns and Karratha.

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