Port shipments down 21 million tonnes last year

Craig Carmody, right, with Deputy Premier Paul Toole at a media event at the site of the port's proposed container terminal on Monday. Picture by Max Mason-Hubers

Import and export tonnage through Newcastle port dropped 13 per cent in 2022, but non-coal trade rose sharply on small volumes.

The fall in trade at the coal-dominated port was in line with figures published last month by Port Waratah Coal Services.