Local government delegates attending the 22nd National General Assembly of Local Government in Canberra have called for politicians to support a freight productivity plan by the Australian Local Government Association (ALGA), which they say ...
Tags: ALGA, productivity
The Crashlab in Western Sydney. NSW Minister for Transport and Infrastructure Andrew Constance and NSW Minister for Roads Duncan Gay have announced the establishment of the state’s first Smart Innovation Centre in Western Sydney ...
Tags: Hub, Transport, Road technology
Australian governments have spent unprecedented sums on transport infrastructure in the past decade, and while important projects have been built the overall investment has been poorly directed, according to a new Grattan Institute report. ...
The first rapid plug-in car chargepoint, capable of charging vehicles in around 30 minutes, was flagged off as part of the Eden project in Cornwall in the UK. The charging facility, which is among 16 being installed in the county, was ...
Tags: plug-in car, Plug-in vehicles
The Australasian Railway Association (ARA) has welcomed the release Infrastructure Australia (IA) Audit Report, describing it as a timely and directional insight into Australia’s infrastructure requirements. The inquiry by the ...
The Australasian Railway Association (ARA) has expressed disappointment in the Federal Government’s 2015-16 Budget, which announced the lion’s share of transport infrastructure funding to go toward roads, and no new money for ...
Tags: Rail Industry, rail infrastructure
Hydrogen Transport in European Cities (HyTEC) consortium has announced the development of its third hydrogen passenger vehicle deployment centre in Oslo, Norway while South Korean auto maker Hyundai has joined a partner in the project. ...
Tags: hydrogen technology, ix35 Fuel Cell, Auto
The NSW Premier Mike Baird and Minister for Transport Gladys Berejiklian have signed the operations contract for Sydney’s North West Rail Link, said to be Australia’s largest public transport infrastructure project and first ...
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The launch today of CHEP Logistics' new control centre at its Erskine Park, NSW facility, marks a step-change in CHEP's delivery of logistics services and the management of its product flow to customers across the country. Earlier this ...
The Goodman Group’s wholly owned North American subsidiary, Goodman Birtcher has launched the development of a new US$150 million logistics centre at Rancho Cucamonga in the Inland Empire West market of Southern California. The new ...
Tags: Pipeline, Logistics Hubs
Strong regional multi-stakeholder partnerships will be the key for a dynamic, flexible and growth-driven petrochemicals industry, said industry experts at the sixth Supply Chain conference, organized by the Gulf Petrochemicals and Chemicals ...
Tags: Petrochem, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
A next generation small-footprint retail-ready display pallet, developed in consultation with manufacturers and retailers for the FMCG retail supply chain, has been released. The new FMCG Retail Display Pallet builds on the success of ...
Tags: Service
Australia's governments should agree to cut the fuel tax and registration charges paid by trucking operators, the chairwoman of the Australian Trucking Association Noelene Watson said. The National Transport Commission (NTC) concluded in ...
IAF’s Matthijs Crietee delivered a speech at Dialog’s Textil Bekleidung’s (DTB) and MODINT’s biannual Sourcing Convention held March 6th, 2014 in Düsseldorf, Germany. He explained the elements of the ‘2nd ...
Tags: Apparel Export, Textile, Clothes
Rosneft estimates that crude production from its East Siberian and Russian Far Eastern projects will amount to 55 million mt/year, or 1.1 million b/d, by 2025, a spokesman at Rosneft said Friday. To achieve this, the company plans to ...
Tags: Rosneft, Crude Output