AQIS in the depot

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The Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service (AQIS) has launched a new collaboration with industry in the form of a quarantine scheme fo...

Questions over AARP

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The troubled AustralAsia Railway Project (AARP) has attracted further criticism after admissions that the A$560 mill in core funding from th...

Oz benchmark exceeded

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The Australian waterfront has had, in the words of federal Transport Minister John Anderson, a "red letter day," with the national average c...

Australia/Vietnam port deal

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Australia's Port of Brisbane Corporation (PBC) and WADRECO, a subsidiary of the Vietnam Waterway Construction Corporation, have signed an ag...

Toll takes Strang

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Toll Holdings, Australia's largest integrated transportation and logistics services company, has substantially expanded its port business wi...

Overseas flavour to SA port bids

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The sale of the Ports Corporation of South Australia has attracted at least two overseas-backed bids, with British and French interests join...

Oz rail in a state of flux

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Australasian rail ownership is on the verge of another major shake-up as government-owned National Rail (NR) and FreightCorp finally hit the...

Forces jostle for position in Melbourne

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Melbourne's fabled third container terminal is edging ever closer, but Melbourne Port Corporation (MPC) executives are understandably reluct...

Fremantle looking for rail solutions

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Container trade at the Fremantle Inner Harbour has more than doubled over the last decade and reached 300,000 TEU in 1999/2000. Yet less tha...

Globex packs up

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Bulk commodity exporter Globex International, a subsidiary of Grainco Australia, has announced it is to buy out Chalmers Commodities (CC), i...

Dual sale for NSW

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In a move which has surprised the rail industry, the New South Wales Treasury is to take responsibility for the sale of both the state's who...

Trade records down under

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The Ports Corporation of South Australia, which is in the process of being privatised by the state government, has reported new tonnage reco...

Darwin dream fading?

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Just weeks after reaffirming that its Alice Springs-Darwin rail project remained on course despite two construction start dates passing with...

A big fish in a small pond

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Australia's "cosy" stevedoring duopoly pits global giant P&O Ports against one-country business Patrick, but the latter is no local bit part...

Big fall in Oz port costs…

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Australia's Bureau of Transport Economics (BTE) has found that costs have fallen significantly at the nation's five major ports over the pas...

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