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INVESTMENTS in infrastructure and initiatives to help Australia handle its growing freight task must be front and centre of next week’s federal budget, the Australian Logistics Council says. ALC managing director Michael Kilgariff said 2018 was a critical year for...

BUDGET UPDATE: AUSTRALIA TO INTRODUCE PER CONTAINER BIOSECURITY LEVY ON IMPORTED CONTAINERS Agriculture and Water Resources (DAWR) looks to be introducing a $340 million levy on all imported containers – 20′ and 40′- from 1 July 2019. The article...

Click here to download the PDF The Victorian Budget 2018/19 handed down on Tuesday, 1 May 2018 by the Victorian Treasurer, Tim Pallas, is ladened with infrastructure investment pledges, particularly for metropolitan and regional roads and rail, as well as TAFE...

MONEY allocated for roads and transport in the latest Victorian budget should help ease congestion for freight operators the Victorian Transport Association says. Treasurer Tim Pallas handed down the budget earlier in the week. VTA chief executive Peter Anderson said...

Aviation features strongly in Infrastructure Australia’s recently released 2018 Infrastructure Priority List, both in terms of airport projects and the broader picture where air cargo movement is an integral part of inter-modal transfers and cost-efficient...

A new report from Infrastructure Australia is calling for the Federal government to have a greater leadership role in securing the global competitiveness of our largest cities. The latest round of research from the nation’s independent infrastructure advisor...

Australia has two pressing issues to address at present. Well, more than two but these ones are of far-reaching significance for the present day, the next 10 years and decades beyond: They are productivity and infrastructure and both impact directly on the freight and...

Australian wine exports continue to break records, with a new high for the average value of bottled wine exports of A$5.74 per litre and exports to China (including Hong Kong and Macau) increasing by 51 per cent for the year to March 2018 to reach A$1.04 billion – a...

MARCH 2018’s container throughput at Port Botany was significantly higher than it was the same month in 2017, according to the latest available trade statistics from NSW Ports. A total of 206,441 TEU crossed the wharves at Port Botany in March 2018, an increase of 11%...

NSW Ports has welcomed the announcement of the duplication of the Port Botany Freight Line between Port Botany and Mascot as part of the broader joint agreement between the Federal and NSW Governments on the multi-billion dollar Inland Rail project. About 440,000 TEU...