Port activity goes full steam ahead BOOM, Queensland Business Magazine, is available in the print edition of Friday's The Courier-Mail. WHEN it comes to pace, there are not many ports in Queensland that can compete with what's happening on the water in Gladstone. Surrounded by more than $33 billion worth of development in and around its harbour, port estimates show Gladstone is clocking more than 20,000 individual movements of barges, ferries, landing craft, ships and runabouts each month. "That's ramped up from probably 2000 a couple of years ago," according to Gladstone Ports Corporation's well-known former chief executive Leo Zussino, "so there is a lot of activity taking place in the Western Basin. It's really exciting. It's really good to be here. Billions of dollars worth of Australian exports and imports crisscross the dozen ports stretching from Cape York to Gladstone, where some of the biggest commercial operators on the ocean make "about 8000 vessel movements each year," according to an Australian Maritime Safety Authority spokesperson. READ MORE in BOOM MAGAZINE in Friday's print edition of The Courier-Mail