Benefits ‘will be massive’

ship terminal project. Mayor Tom Tate is on a self-funded cruise in the Mediterranean to learn more about the industry.

Cr Gates said the council was yet to make a decision on whether the terminal would be a home or transit port.

“I would like to wait and see how the state feels about a home port,” she said.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has been lukewarm about the Gold Coast terminal, preferring to focus on the state government’s commitment to the Luggage Point terminal in Brisbane.

The council will need the state government, however, as