The terminal will take up to 3,000 trucks off Sydney roads a day
Construction has commenced on the new Interstate Intermodal Terminal at Moorebank Logistics Park in Sydney’s south-west according to the Federal government.
The terminal will become the first of four modern and interconnected terminals which will work to enhance Australia’s supply chain and drive freight efficiencies between Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.
It’s planned to service new modern 1,800 metre trains, each with the potential to remove over 100 B Double trucks per train trip.
The terminal will be built and operated in Australia’s largest freight logistics hub under a joint development model between Federal government-owned National Intermodal Corporation, Oube and LOGOS.
Once complete, Moorebank Logistics Park will comprise 850,000 square metres of modern warehousing and freight management facilities with a dedicated freight rail link to Port Botany and direct access to major highway networks.
According to the Federal government, the terminal precinct will support over 1,300 jobs during construction and around 6,800 on-site and off-site jobs once it begins operating at full capacity.
“Connecting the Moorebank precinct in Sydney to key rail freight routes along the east coast, including terminals in Brisbane and Melbourne, will support a major increase in freight volumes handled at the precinct, driving modal shift from long distance road to rail-based freight transportation,” urban infrastructure minister Paul Fletcher says.
Fletcher says the environmental impacts to the project are also significant, with rail three times more carbon efficient than road per tonne of freight transport.
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“Once fully operational, the precinct will take up to 3,000 truck movements off Sydney roads each day and reduce up to 110,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions per year,” Fletcher says.
Coupled with the recent funding announcement for the Melbourne Intermodal Terminal package, the Federal government says it will continue delivering these terminals to connect to the Inland Rail.
“This is all part of the Commonwealth’s strategy to create an efficient, open access national freight network,” Fletcher says.
Finance minister Simon Birmingham says: “These important terminals will provide additional resilience and strengthen our nation’s supply chains to ensure supermarket shelves remain stocked and our exporters can get their product overseas as quickly as possible.”
The Interstate Terminal at Moorebank is expected to be completed by March 2025.