Asciano's Pacific National Coal haulage business will haul a total 8.5 million extra tonnes of coal per annum for two Rio Tinto mines in Queensland
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Pacific National fined for truck infringement
Trucks working for rail company continued to use banned street despite government warning
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Toll’s takeovers man to go next year
Stephen Stanley, the man Paul Little entrusted with Toll’s vaunted takeover strategy over the past decade, will leave the firm on June 30, the firm says today.
Having arrived in 1999 as head of development in his late 30s, Stanley bows out as Director of Strategy, Mergers and Acquisitions having been involved with some of the pivotal purchases in the company’s as it grew from a domestic trucking and logistics giant to a global transport and freight forwarding power.
There was no mention of a successor.
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ACCC warning on port capacity and landside performance
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has raised the spectre of Melbourne port capacity constraints by 2015 imitating those experienced recently in Sydney.
It also notes that stevedores lack any incentive to improve poor performance in servicing trucks, except in Sydney under the Port Botany Landside Improvement Strategy (PBLIS). Commenting on the ACCC’s annual report on stevedoring operations, Container stevedoring monitoring report no. 13, Chairman Rod Sims urges the Victorian Government to embrace stevedoring newcomer Hutchison Port Holdings, which is due to start operations in Sydney and Brisbane in 2013.
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It also notes that stevedores lack any incentive to improve poor performance in servicing trucks, except in Sydney under the Port Botany Landside Improvement Strategy (PBLIS). Commenting on the ACCC’s annual report on stevedoring operations, Container stevedoring monitoring report no. 13, Chairman Rod Sims urges the Victorian Government to embrace stevedoring newcomer Hutchison Port Holdings, which is due to start operations in Sydney and Brisbane in 2013.
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New locomotives to service Anglo American
Pacific National invests in new rolling stock to service long-term contract with Anglo American
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K&S surmounts WA expansion difficulties
K&S Corporation has put its 15.2 percent increase in revenue squarely at the feet of last year’s purchase of two Western Australian operations
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Asciano boss eyes port congestion action
Mullen sees Sydney intermodal options and synergies between Patrick and Pacific National as offering a solution
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Body blow for BlueScope’s export supply chain
Turning BlueScope Steel’s Port Kembla blast furnace off will reduce the company’s 5.2 million tonne per annum export volumes by half
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Pacific National opens Gunnedah depot
Rail freight giant Pacific National’s Coal Division opens a new depot in Gunnedah, NSW
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Asciano resigns with Coal & Allied
Pacific National’s coal haulage business will continue the annual movement of coal for Coal & Allied in the Hunter Valley, NSW
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