New $17.5 million regional freight terminal in western Victoria has opened
August 9, 2012
A new regional freight terminal in western Victoria has opened to boost freight handling capacity and improve container movements.
The $17.5 million Wimmera Intermodal Freight Terminal, near Horsham, opened today and is tipped to deliver significant benefits to local industries.
The new facility is expected to be able to process up to 18,600 containers within five to six years, more than twice the capacity of the existing Horsham facility.
“This much-anticipated development will provide a central location for specialist grain handling and vastly improved access to ports and processing plants,” Victorian Deputy Premier and Regional Minister Peter Ryan says.
“It will also overcome the constraints that have existed with the ageing terminal in the middle of Horsham and pave the way for even better infrastructure to support the movement of containerised exports and bulk grain through a bulk loading facility also to be built at the site.”
Victoria contributed $9.3 million to the project, with $6.5 million coming from the Federal Government. Local councils pledged $1 million, while the private sector chipped in $660,000.