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Inland dream a step closer to reality

News1 Oct 2013

The election of a new government may pave the way for the completion of an Australian east coast inland freight railway....

Oz rail freight bonanza still being held back

News1 Nov 2011

A new study has found that greater use of intermodal rail could produce significant economic, environmental and community benefits for Austr...

Oz rail: productivity lags but reforms on the way

News1 Oct 2009

The Australian rail freight industry’s frustrations and hopes have been catalogued in a detailed productivity review....

Oz rail finds the going tough

News1 Nov 2008

The mantra of freight on rail rather than road is being sorely tested in Australia, where the best intentions of government and industry are...

Asciano seeking relief

News1 Nov 2008

Several years ago Toll Holdings managing director Paul Little predicted that the Australian rail industry would contract to just two major o...

FreightLink forced to throw in the towel

News1 Nov 2008

Adelaide-Darwin rail owner/operator FreightLink met what many consider its inevitable fate on 6 November when the company board appointed a ...

ARTC access undertaking

News1 Aug 2008

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has accepted the Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC)’s interstate access un...

QR spends on intermodal

News1 Jun 2008

QR National, the freight division of Queensland Rail, will commit almost A$200M to new locomotives and rolling stock as it ramps up its Aust...

Oz rail beats road

News1 May 2008

New research commissioned by the Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) shows that rail is now generally cheaper than trucking in moving f...

POTA/QR hook up

News1 Apr 2008

Kaplan/DP World joint venture P&O Trans Australia (POTA) and Queensland Rail (QR) are extending their logistics partnership with the creatio...

ATEC gets closer

News1 Mar 2008

A key element in the ambitious Australian inland rail project has moved a step closer after the southern Queensland-based Jondaryan Shire Co...

Vic steps in with rail freight crutch

News1 Mar 2008

Faced with the imminent withdrawal of Pacific National (PN) and Patrick PortLink intrastate rail freight services, the Victorian government ...

…QR/Kaplan want Moore

News1 Feb 2008

Queensland Rail (QR) has joined forces with property developer Stockland and Kaplan Funds Management (KFM) to create a new intermodal rail f...

AustralAsia Railway turns corner

News1 Nov 2007

FreightLink, the operator of the AustralAsia Railway (AAR) between Adelaide and Darwin, has reported a significant turnaround to record its ...

Oz inland rail dream draws closer

News1 Nov 2007

The prospect of an inland east coast railway linking Melbourne to Brisbane and beyond is growing ever stronger as plans to develop various k...

Australia east-west rail going double-stack

News1 Aug 2007

The Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) has begun work on the A$3M replacement of the 35 year old Dowd’s Hill tunnel on the line betw...

Inland dream a step closer to reality

Oz rail freight bonanza still being held back

Oz rail: productivity lags but reforms on the way

Oz rail finds the going tough

Asciano seeking relief

FreightLink forced to throw in the towel

ARTC access undertaking

QR spends on intermodal

Oz rail beats road

POTA/QR hook up

ATEC gets closer

Vic steps in with rail freight crutch

…QR/Kaplan want Moore

AustralAsia Railway turns corner

Oz inland rail dream draws closer

Australia east-west rail going double-stack

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Guidelines on safe transport of charcoal in containers published

Port of Oakland, NWSA join FLOW

Xeneta: Shippers are not out of the woods

Port of Gothenburg gets direct Ro-Ro connection to Asia

Port of Vancouver’s container volumes recover

Inland dream a step closer to reality

Oz rail freight bonanza still being held back

Oz rail: productivity lags but reforms on the way

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Guidelines on safe transport of charcoal in containers published

Port of Oakland, NWSA join FLOW

Xeneta: Shippers are not out of the woods

Port of Gothenburg gets direct Ro-Ro connection to Asia

Port of Vancouver’s container volumes recover

ILA says it will move forward with strike on Tuesday

Map of major ports affected by strike on US East and Gulf coasts

Will port strike severely disrupt US economy?

ILA shuts down ports on Atlantic and Gulf coasts

Sand: Ships en route to East Coast will have to wait at anchor until strike ends