ON one hand, the NSW government is embarrassed at excessive heavy truck movements on Sydney's roads, caused by its inability to get a reasonable fraction of containers imported through Port Botany onto rail. On the other hand, the Independent Commission…
Date September 22, 2014 - 1:47AM Jacob Saulwick Transport Reporter Congested: As the volume of goods and traffic flowing through Port Botany expands, roads are becoming increasingly crowded. Photo: John Veage The NSW government is failing in its aim of moving…
Jacob Saulwick Transport Reporter More trucks on roads Government ‘embarrassment’ at network failure More trucks are crowding onto Sydney roads despite the NSW government’s bid to push freight back onto rail. The development, which Roads and Freight Minister Duncan Gay…
THE editorial ‘‘Labor gets the point at last’’ (Herald 17/9) infers that a container terminal is lost to Newcastle. In fact, the Port of Newcastle lease agreement does not prevent development of a container terminal. Rather, it is prevented by…
Matthew Stevens matthew.stevens@afr.com.au The Port of Melbourne is on the brink of pricing itself out of some markets and prospective buyers of the jewel in Victoria’s logistics crown should not assume that container volumes will remain at current levels, let…
GREG RAY gray@theherald.com.au WHO could blame Sophie Mill for withdrawing her candidacy for the coming Newcastle state byelection? The former staffer for departed Newcastle Liberal MP Tim Owen had put her hand up to run as an overtly Liberal-aligned independent,…
IAN KIRKWOOD LISTENING to the ICAC hearings, the dominant motif last week was still brave Jodi McKay defending the government’s preferred Newcastle container terminal against the alleged ogre Nathan Tinkler’s plan for that evil of evils, a coal-loader. If only…
By MICHELLE HARRIS TREASURER Eric Roozendaal pressed the boss of Newcastle Port Corporation to resign and blocked details of a container terminal proposal going to its board within days of Labor power-broker Joe Tripodi meeting Buildev about their rival coal-loader…
THE Newcastle Herald is right to question the legitimacy of ‘‘some of the decisions the government has made for the city since it took power’’. One of them was to prevent a container terminal being developed at the Port of…
GREG RAY gray@theherald.com.au I SAW the ghost of Uncle Joe this week. Uncle Joe Tripodi, that is, one of the two great pillars of NSW Labor’s recent past who, along with Uncle Eddie Obeid, ran the state like a nice tight…