Former Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson AO has launched the Australasian Centre for Rail Innovation (ACRI) with invited guests from industry and government. The launch coincided with the first day of the 10th World Congress on Railway ...
Tags: John Anderson, launch, rail, research, ACRI
The metals giant Sinosteel has already invested US$1.4 billion in West Australian Oakajee iron ore project in order to revive steel industrial in Australia. For more than twenty years, miners tried hard to develop a port near Geraldton ...
Tags: Chinese, Sinosteel, Australian, mining, project
Germany-based steelmaker ThyssenKrupp announced that it reached an agreement with Deutsche Bahn in mid-November in connection with a price-fixing cartel. ThyssenKrupp has agreed to pay damages to the German rail operator. According to ...
Tags: Cartel Case, Mineral
Last week, from the floor of the annual Greenbuild Conference’s International Summit, it was announced that Greenbuild for Europe and the Mediterranean region will launch in Verona, Italy in 2014. “Greenbuild for Europe and ...
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The current volatility of crude oil spreads like Brent/WTI and Brent/LLS are a sign that, when it comes to light, sweet crude in the US, refining capacity limits are being reached, Ed Morse, head of commodities research at Citigroup, said ...
Tags: Chemicals
Albany County’s recycling community is up against the glass. On Nov. 1, Ark Regional Services discontinued its glass recycling services, leaving the county without a means for recycling glass. But that hasn’t stopped many ...
Last week, from the floor of the annual Greenbuild Conference's International Summit, it was announced that Greenbuild for Europe and the Mediterranean region will launch in Verona, Italy in 2014. "Greenbuild for Europe and the ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
K&S Corporation will merge with Scott Corporation (SCC), subject to shareholder acceptance. SCC shareholders who accept the Offer will receive either $0.59 cash or 0.345 K&S shares under the offer in consideration for each of their SCC ...
The Victorian Labor Opposition has released an ambitious transport revitalisation plan should it win government at the next election. The centrepiece of the plan is the scrapping of the East-West road tunnel project, the construction of ...
The Australasian Railway Association (ARA) is asking the government to consider modal equality under the proposed Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF) scheme. CEO of the ARA Bryan Nye said there were considerable synergies between the intent of ...
The National Transport Commission (NTC) should work on simplifying the heavy vehicle national law to improve road safety, the chief executive of the Australian Trucking Association Stuart St Clair said. Mr St Clair was commenting on the ...
Tags: trucker, simplified, national, law, compliance, transport, logistics
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, along with Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger, today welcomed the completion of a new four-lane expressway in Winnipeg that will connect CentrePort Canada, Manitoba's inland port, to the core national highway ...
Tags: Transportation
A new containerization facility has been opened adjacent to the Port of Montreal, which will see agricultural products containerized for shipment locally and internationally. Newly formed CanEst Transit has signed a long-term lease with ...
Tags: Transportation, Port
US rail transportation of petroleum and petroleum products for the week ended November 16 totaled 15,523 cars, up 21.6% from the year-ago week, the Association of American Railroads said Thursday. Petroleum and petroleum product shipments ...
Tags: petroleum, petroleum products
A spike in the front-quarter CIF ARA c had eastern US coal export executives guessing Wednesday how much the out-of-the-money range for Central Appalachian thermal coal prices had narrowed. Platts assessed Wednesday the API2 Q1 2014 ...
Tags: East Coast Coal, Coal