Photo courtesy of Sydney Ports Corporation. Opinion – Greg Cameron This week, the Prime Minister offered the NSW Premier $1 billion towards a road project for reducing traffic congestion caused by trucks accessing Port Botany ...
Tags: NSW, traffic congestion, rail access
Canadian railways have reported a 0.7 percent increase in freight volumes in December 2012 from volumes reported during same month in 2011. Statistics Canada Freight further reported that freight loaded in both Canada and the US raised ...
Tags: Coal freight, iron afreight, steel freight
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 ...
Tags: Port Botany Container Terminal, Australia, Sydney Freight Corridor
Electoral candidates in western Sydney and Newcastle face some stark policy choices about transport infrastructure that will have profound economic and social implications well into next century. Unusual in federal politics, the opportunity ...
Tags: Western Sydney, Newcastle, Rail Freight
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 ...
Tags: high-speed rail, efficient rail freight network, Australia
Opinion – Greg Cameron Australia’s taxpayers will book a net loss of $4 billion when the New South Wales government sells a 99-year lease to Port Botany Container Terminal. The NSW government is asking taxpayers for $4 ...
Tags: Australia, Port Botany Container Terminal, tax, transport
Hawkesbury River rail bridge – WikiPedia photo. Opinion – Greg Cameron Work can start immediately to design and build outer Western Sydney’s dedicated freight rail line between Glenfield, Eastern Creek and Newcastle. ...
The amount of freight carried by the for-hire transportation industry rose 1.7 percent in November from October, rising after a one-month decline, according to the US Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics' (BTS) ...
Tags: freight, US, transportation industry, BTS
The Maldon to Dombarton Rail Link Project has now moved to the next stage with the awarding of contracts to Parsons Brinckerhoff and GHD for engineering, planning and environmental works. The two companies have now started this initial ...
Tags: Service, Rail Link, Freight rail
Reuters reported that Russian freight operator Globaltrans Investment has won the right to buy MMK-Trans a subsidiary of Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works. The Kommersant daily citing several sources reported that MMK owns a 50% in ...
Tags: freight operator Globaltrans Investment, MMK Trans, Russia
Comment – Greg Cameron The NSW government policy to have only one container terminal for all of NSW at Port Botany is disadvantaging regional economies. Although the NSW government claims that Port Botany container terminal is ...
Tags: container terminal, regional economies, access to a container terminal
Transport for NSW has called for industry feedback on the first review of the current NSW Rail Access Regime – the regulatory framework that enables third-party passenger and freight operators to use the NSW rail network. Transport ...
Tags: transport, NSW, industry feedback, NSW Rail Access Regime
Opinion–Greg Cameron The O'Farrell government's'NSW 2021'plan has an objective to"double the proportion of container freight movement by rail through NSW ports by 2020"–from 14%to 28%.The baseline year is 2010-11. The ...
Tags: Container Trucks, 2.9 Million
Kumba's Kolomela Mine near Postmasburg in the Northern Cape was officially opened today by the Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu.Also in attendance were officials from the Northern Cape Province,Anglo American CEO Cynthia ...
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