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Qantas and Emirates have welcomed the New Zealand Minister for Transport’s decision to approve their partnership for five years. The partnership will provide New Zealand customers with stronger links to Australia, Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and the UK, as well as frequent flyer benefits. Qantas and Emirates applied for authorisation of the partnership [...]
An action plan to reduce workplace injury and illness in the NSW road freight transport industry has been launched by WorkCover NSW. The industry is one of the states’ 10 highest risk industries with 5,512 injuries and illness and 29 fatalities in the three years to 2010, costing the NSW workers’ compensation scheme $157 million. [...]
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While the rail industry did not find the budget entirely positive, there are many good points for rail in the Budget.
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The import supply chain will feel the sting of the Federal Budget, writes director of advocacy body Freight & Trade Alliance (FTA) Paul Zalai.
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The 2013 Budget has failed Australia’s trucking businesses because it does not reverse the government’s plan to extend the carbon tax to the trucking industry, Australian Trucking Association chief executive Stuart St Clair said. The fuel used by trucking businesses is currently exempt from the carbon tax. The government plans to extend the tax to [...]
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Infrastructure developers’ lobby group Infrastructure Partnerships Australia says the 2013 Federal Budget has made some important project funding commitments, but with around half of the money beyond the forward estimates, it did too little to replace the evaporating mining-related investment and deal with Australia’s infrastructure challenge. “The Budget made some welcome project commitments, but we [...]
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Comment – Charles Pauka After spending $1.5 million on its latest report on Wilton, which comprehensively dismisses the location as unsuitable for a large international airport, federal infrastructure and transport minister Anthony Albanese has responded swiftly – by announcing yet another report into Wilton, at an undetermined cost. There have been more than 20 reports [...]
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In support of its business growth plans and to capitalise on operational synergies by consolidating four sites, BagTrans has moved into a new purpose built warehouse facility in Eastern Creek, situated in Sydney’s north west. “Consolidating four sites into one operation took plenty of planning and forward thinking to take the future needs of our [...]
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New funding of $1.7 million recently announced by the federal and New South Wales governments for trials of Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS) technologies has been welcomed by national peak body Intelligent Transport Systems Australia. The Heavy Vehicle Safety and Productivity Program funds pioneering projects involving heavy vehicle to infrastructure communication technologies to make roads [...]
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The 4th meeting of the Standing Council on Transport and Infrastructure (the Standing Council) has been held in Canberra to consider a wide range of transport initiatives and reforms. The Standing Council includes Transport, Infrastructure and Planning Ministers from the Commonwealth, States and Territories, New Zealand and the Australian Local Government Association. National Transport Regulation [...]
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