SCF put up for sale

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The private equity owners of Australiaā€™s SCF Group have put the container sales and leasing company up for sale, apparently buoyed by the ...

Supalite box in demand

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Australian retail giant Woolworths and leading transport and logistics companies Toll Group and Linfox are among Australasiaā€™s largest mov...

Toll adds in Asia

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Australiaā€™s Toll Group has added further weight to its Asian expansion ambitions with key deals in India and China....

QR on verge of new era

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The scheduled departure of QRNationalā€™s first official east-west intermodal train from Melbourneā€™s North Dynon terminal via Adelaide to ...

Linfox acquires Westgate

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Australiaā€™s second largest transport and logistics company, the privately-owned Linfox Group, has taken another step towards challenging t...

Bass Strait hotting up

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Searoad Holdings, which recently bought Bass Strait operator Patrick Shipping and associated Tasmanian transport and freight forwarding inte...

Victoria buys back rail

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The Victorian government has honoured its November 2006 election pledge and bought back the lease of the stateā€™s rail freight network, pay...

Toll split gets ACCC nod

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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is set to approve Toll Holdingsā€™ split into separate operating and infrastructur...

New logistics centres in Oz

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Kuehne & Nagel (K&N) has opened a A$40M logistics facility in Melbourne as part of a strategy to expand in Australia and across the Asia-Pac...

Australian imports go electronic

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Australian importers are now able to take delivery of containers direct from terminals using electronic Import Delivery Orders (eIDOs). Stev...

…Toll sheds rail pack

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In a smaller, but nonetheless significant, divestment, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has forced Toll to sell a s...

Corrigan heads DPW/Kaplan JV

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As forecast in last monthā€™s issue of WorldCargo News (p6), former Patrick Corporation supremo Chris Corrigan is returning to waterfront st...

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