Company: BIP-PB
Filing Date: 2025-03-24
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001628280-25-014380
Chunk: 192

Company: Brookfield Infrastructure Partners L.P.
Filing Date: 2025-03-24
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 4
Chunk 192
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 In the U. K., Teesport is a large, deep-water port located in a well-developed industrial area in Northern England. The SHA status, as well as the established infrastructure which includes rail and road access, create barriers to entry for potential competitors.

Our Australian container port terminals operate under long-term leases, with over 180 hectares of land within the ports of Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Fremantle, the four largest container ports by TEU in Australia. Our storage, handling and logistics business benefits from geographic diversification, with operations at 34 sites across Australia and New Zealand. It provides services and integrated logistics solutions to customers from a diverse range of industries across the region, from agriculture, aluminum, automotive, forestry, food, mining, marine, energy, and resources.

Our Australian export terminal operation services the central Bowen Basin, which has high quality, low cost, prolific metallurgical coal deposits, and where our terminal operation is estimated to be one of the lowest cost options to access export markets given its rail advantaged location for Bowen Basin customers. We have take-or-pay contracts with some of the world’s largest mining companies that operate in the Bowen Basin. Our operation is fully contracted until June 2028 with customers having evergreen renewal options.

Our U. K. and Australian port operations have a number of long-term contracts with established counterparties, including large multinational corporations. Our Australian port operation’s main customers represent major shipping lines who utilize the multiple ports located nationally.

Our U. S. LNG export terminal is strategically located on the Gulf Coast allowing for convenient ingress and egress for vessels, near large gas production basins and well-connected to midstream transportation infrastructure. It is one of the largest LNG terminals in the world with competitive shipping capacity to Europe, South America and Asia. Existing customers are contracted under long-term take-or-pay agreements, globally diversified, and highly creditworthy. As a critical component of the global LNG supply chain, our terminal enables the export and distribution of a cleaner energy source which we believe is well-positioned to help displace coal and other high-carbon fossil fuels during the transition to more environmentally sustainable energy sources.

Regulatory Environment

Our global intermodal logistics operation is subject to regulations promulgated in various countries, including the United States, seeking to protect the integrity of international commerce. These regulations encompass environmental and operational standards designed to provide uniform international safety measures in the transport and handling of containers and chassis.

Our U. K. port operation is unregulated, however its status as the SHA for