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
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. ...
In 2011, the United States became the world’s largest producer of natural gas, growing by 7.7% between 2010 and 2011. That represented the largest volumetric increase in the world, according to BP’s Statistical Review of World ...
Tags: natural gas, Natural Resource, gas industry
In Ossining, N.Y. Sandy tossed a 40-foot boat onto the tracks of the commuter rail line. And scores of homeowners across the Northeast lost cars and houses to downed trees. Now the cleanup begins. In addition to ruined personal property, ...
Tags: mess Sandy, storms scatter, construction materials, debris piles
Reuters reported that two Chinese companies have reached a deal to build a 400 km (250 mile) rail line, a steel plant and a sea port in Cambodia worth a combined USD 11.2 billion in what would be by far the impoverished country's ...
Tags: rail line, steel plant, investments, Steel Mining Industry Group
Australian miner Fortescue has announced that in December 2012 it loaded 8.5 million mt of iron ore at its Herb Elliott port facility at Port Hedland, Western Australia, achieving a record 100 million mt annualized run rate. Fortescue ...
Talga Resources has welcomed the Swedish Parliament’s decision to carry out a study on extending a rail line from Svappavaara to the Kaunisvaara iron ore project in northern Sweden. Besides building on the excellent infrastructure ...
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English.caixin reported that the Chinese ministry of environmental protection would not approve the environmental impact report for a section of a rail line in Sichuan Province until its concerns were addressed. The section of line a ...
Tags: Chinese ministry of environmental protection, report, rail line
AAP reported that Fortescue Metals Group says it has loaded 8.5 million tonnes of iron ore and achieved an annualized 100 million tonne production run rate in the last month of 2012. The iron ore focused company said the December run rate ...
Tags: iron ore, FMG, Fortescuem, AAP
Economic Times reported that the Indian consortium is back from another round of discussion for acquiring mining rights to the 1.8 billion tonne of iron ore reserves in Afghanistan, as the possible deal reaches a critical stage. A ...
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Reuters reported that a new deepwater port on Australia's Indian Ocean Coast was supposed to be the showpiece of the country's decade long mining boom and open up a huge new iron ore belt to export to Asian markets. But twice in the past ...
Tags: Iron Ore Mining, Mining Jobs, Coal Mining News, Mining
Northland Resources SA welcomes the decision by the Swedish parliament to initiate a study with the objective of constructing a rail line between Kaunisvaara and Svappavaara in northern Sweden. A rail line means cost efficient transports ...
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