Fortescue Metals Group Limited will construct rail and port facilities to support the development and sale of the Pilbara's stranded iron ore bodies. Its philosophy is an open third party access regime for other mining users as espoused by the Government. The rail and port assets will be owned by The Pilbara Infrastructure Pty Ltd (TPI) - currently a wholly - owned subsidiary of FMG. TPI includes the mine ore handling facility, railway from Cloud Break to Port Hedland and a port facility at Port Hedland. The key infrastructure parameters include:

-255 kms of railway from Cloud Break to Port Hedland
-4 train sets each comprising 2 locomotives and 200 wagons
-2 berths, a live berth and a lay-by berth designed to handle ships up to 250,000 DWT
-12,500 tph shiploader
-2.4 million tones live stockpile area.

WorleyParson has been appointed the EPCM contractor. The following contractors have been selected for the works:

• Jan de Nul NV for the dredging of the port area at Anderson Point. The vessel CSD “Leonardo da Vinci” has been scheduled for the work.
• Metso Minerals (Australia) Pty Ltd for the design, manufacture and commissioning of the train unloader at Anderson Point.
• FFE Minerals for the design, manufacture, installation and commissioning of Excel 1100 crushers at the Cloud Break mine site.
• BGC Contracting for earthworks and culvert construction along the entire 255km route of the rail line.

The capital cost for the project is estimated at A$1.95 billion. Fortescure is targeting to have the first ore shipped in late 2007.