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 than 4 per cent of these containers were transported to and from the port by rail.
Commissioned by the Western Australian Sea Freight Council, consultants Halpern Glick Maunsell recently prepared a study into the feasibility of double-stack train operations at Fremantle. Noting that container exchange at the Inner Harbour is expected to at least double and possibly treble in the longer term, the study examined:...
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Approx 750 words from WorldCargo News, March 2001,
page 34.
