Inland Rail section opens for freight
EIGHTY-THREE kilometres of upgraded Inland Rail track is now open. The Australian Rail Track Corporation confirmed today (25 November) it has completed work on a section of track...
Firefighting helicopter arrives, takes off from Port Botany
A CH-47D Chinook helicopter that will join New South Wales’ firefighting arsenal for the upcoming bushfire season arrived at Port Botany’s Patrick Terminals this week. The Coulson...
Drug bust at Sydney freight depot, logistics employee arrested
AUTHORITIES have seized about 60 kilograms of cocaine from a Sydney freight depot and have arrested a logistics worker for allegedly monitoring drug imports. The man was one of...
Shipwreck artefacts returned to Western Australian Museum
SEVERAL artefacts believed to be from the ship Vergulde Draeck, wrecked off the coast of Western Australia in 1656, have been returned to the Western Australian Museum. Vergulde...
Net Zero Unit to drive down transport emissions
THE GOVERNMENT has established a Net Zero Unit in the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communication and the Arts. The new unit aims to identify how...
Gladstone Ports Corporation celebrates trainees and apprentices
GLADSTONE Ports Corporation celebrated the work of its trainees and apprentices with an awards ceremony this week. GPC held its annual Apprentices and Trainee Awards ceremony on...
Tassie government to launch Bass Island Line inquiry
THE TASMANIAN government is commissioning an inquiry into Bass Island Line’s pricing policies. Tasmanian treasurer Michael Ferguson said the shipping line’s freight volumes have...
Patrick Terminals launches landside efficiency initiatives
PATRICK Terminals has announced plans to publish quarterly landside performance metrics and launch representative landside efficiency groups. The terminal operator is launching...
Increases in trade at Botany and Kembla
CONTAINER trade at Port Botany last month saw an increase, with upticks in both export and import volumes. In October 2022, the port handled a total of 252,425 TEU – an increase...
Supply chain "digital twins" can help brace for disruptions, whitepaper says
A WHITEPAPER from the Melbourne Business School suggests organisations can use so-called “digital twins” to enhance supply-chain visibility and brace for disruptions. The...
New trade deals to strengthen trade and economic relationships: PM
AUSTRALIAN exporters, businesses, workers and consumers will soon be able to reap the opportunities and benefits of more open trade with India and the United Kingdom with the...
INSIGHT: Commencement of Australia’s free trade deals with the UK and India comes closer
IT HAS been a busy few weeks in the Australian Federal Parliament. The Joint Standing Committee on Treaties (JSCOT) in parliament issued its reports into proposed treaty action...
NHVR opens submissions for Round 8 of HVSI
THE National Heavy Vehicle Regulator has opened submissions for Round 8 of the Heavy Vehicle Safety Initiative to fund new projects to deliver a safer heavy vehicle industry....
ARTC re-opens freight line after derailment
A FREIGHT corridor closed by a recent train derailment re-opened on Monday night (21 November). The Australian Rail Track Corporation closed the Melbourne-Adelaide rail line last...
Importers and exporters lose when infrastructure is treated as a cash machine: Sims
ROD Sims, the former ACCC chair and now a professor at the Crawford School of Public Policy at ANU, said importers and exporters lose out when governments treat infrastructure as...
