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Hervey Bay is an ideal location for established businesses seeking expansion or relocation
and for emerging businesses.
Boasting a diversity of industry, from heavy manufacturing to agriculture, fishing
and construction, the region’s major primary industry is sugar cane, earning the
area some $30 million per annum. Agricultural activities also include a wide
variety of fruit and vegetable crops and grazing.
While tourism has emerged as a major growth industry for Hervey Bay, other established key industries such as fishing, seafood processing, treated
pine timber, light engineering, marine and aviation continue to expand and create
jobs.
In order not to compromise our quality of life and the natural environment, Hervey Bay continues to focus on attracting innovative, low impact, ‘clean & green’
light to medium industries: tourism, education, health, information technology,
aviation and marine manufacturing, aquaculture and industries that add value to
existing local products.
Hervey Bay City Council has been instrumental in establishing designated precincts in Hervey Bay to attract investment and enhance economic development in the region.
- The main general industrial estate at Urangan has attracted a variety of industries
and will continue to grow as Council develops a master planned industrial park
of approximately 40 hectares adjacent to the redeveloped airport.
- The Tourism and Food Precinct on the main approach road to the city, is perfect
for food manufacturers to cluster and showcase themselves to the passing tourism
market checking in at the Visitor Information Centre.
- An Aquaculture Precinct at Pulgul Creek, Urangan will retune hi-tech intensive
grow-out facilities. This fledgling industry is already supported by a commercial
sea cucumber and crab hatchery, and pearl and edible oyster hatchery.
These industry precincts are supported by many well placed and suitably zoned,
privately owned sites within the city. The outlying townships of Torbanlea and
Howard are also in excellent positions for industrial development, based on their
direct link to both the Bruce Highway and the main north-south rail line.
Investment opportunities in Hervey Bay are:
- Aquaculture – primary produce and processing
- Tourism services (including accommodation)
- Marine services
- Retail trade
- Creative industries
- Multimedia
- Information technology
- Education
- Food processing
- Aviation and aerospace industry with supporting services
- Residential and commercial real estate development
- Construction and associated support industries.
- Light engineering
- Private hospital facilities
- Health, aged care and wellbeing services and products
- Recreational services
- Water sports – products and services
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