Adelaide wins dredging race

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Adelaide has stolen a considerable march on main rival Melbourne with the completion of dredging work in its A$45M deepening of the main Out...

PB3T work under way

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Sydney Ports Corporation (SPC) has awarded the first major contract for work on the third Port Botany container terminal, with the appointme...

Patrick straddles hitch a lift

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Following the relocation of its Brisbane container handling activities from Fisherman Islands Berths 1, 2 and 3 to the new AutoStrad termina...

…QR/B&B buy ARG

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The future of Pacific National (PN) has been brought into even starker relief by the announcement that the Australian Railroad Group (ARG), ...

Enfield back on?

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A new environmental assessment (EA) of the possible development by Sydney Ports Corporation (SPC) of an Intermodal Logistics Centre at derel...

Rail off track in Tasmania

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A massive row over the future of rail in Tasmania epitomises the still-to-be-resolved debate over private versus public ownership of Austral...

Short haul long on problems

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As the drive to shift container freight from road to rail gathers momentum in Australia, not everyone believes industry and government have ...

Melbourne dredging a year away

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The absence of a firm timetable for the new approvals process for Melbourne’s proposed channel deepening has been explained by a state gov...

Autostrad terminal opens

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Patrick Corporation has officially opened its A$106 mill Brisbane AutoStrad terminal at the Port of Brisbane. As previously reported, the ne...

Freo postpones

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Fremantle Ports has deferred a decision over the redevelopment of Inner Harbour berths 11 and 12 for 12 months amid concerns over possible d...

Tzaneros returns

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As speculated in the September 2005 issue of WorldCargo News (p22), former Smith Bros owner, the Tzaneros family, has returned to the Austra...

Newcastle reversal

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The much-delayed multi-purpose terminal at Newcastle, New South Wales, is almost back at square one again after Newcastle Port Corporation (...

A tale of blazing straddles

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As with other items of mainstream container handling equipment, 2005 seems to have been a record year for straddle carriers. Noell says it d...

Tas rail still off-track

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The boardroom turmoil at rail company Pacific National (see page 13) has left the Tasmanian rail system in limbo despite the Federal and Sta...

Landbridge costs too high

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The only shipper known to have made substantial use of the Adelaide-Darwin landbridge capacity of the AustralAsia Railway (AAR) for internat...

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