The Victorian Transport Association (VTA) has welcomed the announcement by the Victorian Government of the extension of available roads in Victorian regional and metropolitan areas for access by Higher Productivity Freight Vehicles (HPFV), ...
The existing road funding and planning system is broken, despite the serious efforts of the Australian Government to fix it, the chairman of the Australian Trucking Association, David Simon, said today. Mr Simon was launching an ...
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Photo courtesy of Sydney Ports Corporation. Opinion – Greg Cameron Selling a 99-year lease to Port Botany Container Terminal for $2 billion is bad economics. The deal requires Australian taxpayers to pay $4 billion for upgrading ...
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Goulburn Mulwaree (NSW) Mayor Geoff Kettle welcomed close to 100 local and interstate visitors to an open forum designed to inform attendees on the many benefits that a high-speed rail and efficient rail freight network could bring to ...
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The Federal and Victorian Governments have agreed to progress planning on the proposed Western Interstate Freight Terminal (WIFT), a facility with the potential to ease congestion around the Port of Melbourne and take more than 700,000 ...
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Originally budgeted for $319m and promised to open in 2009, the Southern Sydney Freight Line is finally open at a cost of $1b, allowing container trains 24-hour access to Port Botany and unhindered passage for Brisbane-Melbourne freight ...
Tags: Southern Sydney Freight Line, freight trains, logistics