Melbourne gap closed by AAR

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In a boost to the AustralAsia Railway (AAR), operator FreightLink is extending its Darwin-Adelaide rail service east to Melbourne, addressin...

Extending Broome

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The first piles have been driven in the A$16.8 mill jetty extension at the north-west Western Australian port of Broome, a project that will...

Melbourne SEES gets underway

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The Victorian government has released draft guidelines for public comment on the Supplementary Environment Effects Statement (SEES) process ...

Oz ports are not a problem after all

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After months of political grandstanding by members of his government and sections of federal bureaucracy, Australian Prime Minister John How...

Melbourne dredging on trial

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Following the rejection of aspects of its key environmental effects study (EES) into deepening the Port Phillip Bay shipping channels (see W...

POPA in shuttle launch…

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Just weeks after announcing its plans for a nationwide network of intermodal terminals (see WorldCargo News May 2005, p22), P&O Ports Austra...

…ARTC speeds up rail timetable

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The Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) plans to telescope the timetable for crucial East Coast rail upgrades by entering into strategi...

New Tasmanian ports HQ chosen

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Tasmania’s reformed port system is to operate from headquarters in Devonport on the central north coast....

Hiatus in Brisbane

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The financial collapse of the civil contractor building Patrick’s groundbreaking automated container terminal in Brisbane has pushed compl...

SCT bags IKEA contract

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The logistics division of Australia’s largest private rail service provider, Specialized Container Transport (SCT), has won a breakthrough...

Feds want Oz port control

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The Australian government is to take over regulatory and planning control of the nation’s major ports, in what it claims is a necessary mo...

POPA takes rails running

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P&O Ports Australia (POPA) has finally made a long-expected move into national intermodal operations, declaring its long-term lease of a new...

EIS launched for Sydney freight line

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The Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) has launched the environmental impact assessment (EIS) for the new 35 km Southern Sydney Freigh...

Geelong loader collapse

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Operations have resumed at the Australian port of Geelong after a loader at Graincorp’s bulk grain berth No 3 collapsed across the deck an...

Inland rail plan back in Oz favour

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After languishing for several years, grand plans for an inland rail line linking Melbourne to Brisbane and beyond are back on the agenda as ...

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