SYDNEY Ports has announced it is working with the trucking industry through the Port Botany Landside Improvement strategy (PBLIS) to provide a solution to improve landside logistics at Port Botany.
26/02/2010
PAUL McLeay has been appointed as the new New South Wales ports and waterways ministers after the sacking of Joe Tripodi yesterday.
17/11/2009
AUSTRALIAN Trucking Association (ATA) NSW supports Sydney Ports’ decision to move towards regulations for the Port Botany landside reforms if stevedores do not improve performance.
23/10/2009
THE FREIGHT and Logistics Council of NSW (FALCON) have announced road networks may be incapable of fulfilling central western NSW’s future freight needs.
07/08/2009
PAPERLESS processing will be introduced this year at Port Botany, which the NSW Government says will significantly reduce trucking operator costs and improve productivity.
24/03/2009
WORK will begin this year on what could be a $400 million dollar project to upgrade key freight routes in Victoria such as Tullamarine Freeway and Broadmeadows Road.
05/05/2009
THE INTELLIGENT Access Program (IAP) has been made mandatory in Victoria, with the Government claiming it is good news for the transport industry.
14/05/2009
THE PASSING of a compulsory environmental audit carried out on Port Botany has been met with backlash from the Greens, who say the port cannot be ‘environmentally friendly’ until it slashes the number of trucks servicing the facility.
27/08/2009
A NATIONAL summit on the development and deployment of state of the art intelligent transport systems (ITS) technologies in Australia will be held from 18-20 November 2009.
28/08/2009
ORGANISERS have announced that final preparations are taking place for Freight Week 2009.
02/09/2009
THE NSW Roads and Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA) invites road transport operators based at Port Botany to take part in a free diesel retrofit demonstration program during 2009/10.
09/11/2009
PATRICK has turned performance ratings at Port Botany around in the last month, says Asciano.
20/11/2009
THE Victorian government’s 2009 submission to Infrastructure Australia (IA) has highlighted transport projects will reshape the state’s freight network and international gateways.
04/12/2009
MORE than a third of the trucks using the Patrick terminal at Port Botany are breaching the port's vehicle time limit, and most shipping containers are sitting at the port for two days or more.
20/02/2009
NEW anti-speeding laws to be introduced in Victoria will enforce penalties of over $50,000 to companies that force truck drivers to speed to meet deadlines.
06/04/2009
A NEW technology program is now being used to monitor the movements of heavy mobile cranes and concrete pump trucks on Victorian roads to ensure they stay on pre-approved routes.
21/05/2009
AN $11 million funding boost will kick start the Victorian government’s Truck Action Plan to remove trucks from local roads in the western suburbs as part of the $38 billion Victorian Transport Plan.
03/12/2009
PORTS and Waterways Minister Paul McLeay has announced his confidence in the new Port Botany freight train services.
27/01/2010
THE Townville Port Access Road project has been completed and it is expected that to take more than 500 trucks a day off local roads.
25/01/2010
Victoria’s AUD38 billion transport project will remove thousands of trucks from Melbourne’s residential streets and improve freight access to the Port of Melbourne.
16/12/2008