NSW Premier Mike Baird and Treasurer Andrew Constance today announced the successful lease of the Port of Newcastle, delivering a great result for the people of NSW and securing the funds needed for the revitalisation of Newcastle. The NSW Government…
By GREG CAMERON April 29, 2014, 9:30 p.m. THE 98-year lease of the Port of Newcastle is likely to be finalised any day. With Port forecast earnings of $69million a year, a deal at 15-times earnings is tipped that would see…
PREMIER Barry O’Farrell seems to be waiting for Prime Minister Tony Abbott to assume responsibility for western Sydney road, rail and air infrastructure. My suggestion is to put the container terminal in Newcastle. This would provide the base load freight…
By Greg Cameron ON Tuesday in federal parliament, the Transport and Infrastructure Minister Anthony Albanese was asked by ALP western Sydney backbencher Ed Husic, ‘‘How will the government’s infrastructure investment plans help move freight more quickly into Port Botany?’’ Mr Albanese…
Will $4.4 billion be provided in the federal budget for building stages 2 and 3 of the Northern Sydney Freight Corridor to service Moorebank and Port Botany? If not, why is the Australian government promoting Moorebank as an interstate freight hub…
In the article “Rail Freight Analysis Under Fire in NSW” (AFR, January 17) your correspondent Jenny Wiggins quoted my audit of the cost-benefit analysis (CBA) prepared by Deloitte to justify expansion of the Northern Sydney Freight Corridor. There is a need…
By GREG CAMERON Jan. 16, 2014, 10:32 p.m. THERE are eight reasons for a container terminal at Newcastle. First, jobs would be created throughout northern NSW when regional firms have decent access to a container terminal for the first time ever.…
PUBLISHED: 14 JAN 2014 06:44:27 | UPDATED: 14 JAN 2014 06:44:27 Port Botany container trucks will require 50 per cent of Sydney’s M5 East westbound tunnel’s capacity and 25 per cent of the eastbound tunnel’s capacity when the terminal reaches “natural capacity” of 13 million…
PUBLISHED: 03 JAN 2014 PUBLISHED: 03 JAN 2014 PRINT EDITION: 03 JAN 2014 Anthony Macdonald and James Chessell Mike Baird is not a swearer. But the NSW Treasurer must have been tempted to let out an expletive or three when he was…
By IAN KIRKWOOD Dec. 8, 2013, 10 p.m. Aiming to guide the movement of freight across the state for the coming 20 years, the strategy is based on a belief freight volumes will double by 2031. ‘‘The NSW community expects that…