Author: By MICHELLE HARRIS Date: 23/11/2012 Words: 325 Source: NCH A NEWCASTLE rail bypass would be investigated as part of efforts to separate passenger and freight trains and get rid of bottlenecks, under the state's first freight and ports strategy…
ANDREW CLENNELL STATE POLITICAL EDITOR THE DAILY TELEGRAPH NOVEMBER 12, 2012 12:00AM AN ambitious plan to build a fourth and fifth runway at Sydney Airport on reclaimed land in Botany Bay has won the backing of state Treasurer Mike Baird. By…
By IAN KIRKWOOD Nov. 3, 2012, 4 a.m. Two-thirds of the former BHP steelworks site at Mayfield has been fully remediated, the Hunter Development Corporation said yesterday. Nathan Tinkler’s Buildev Group has an agreement with the corporation to put an industrial park…
Author: By MICHELLE HARRIS State Political Reporter Date: 20/10/2012 Words: 118 Source: NCH NEWCASTLE would not be used as a container terminal until Port Botany and Port Kembla were at capacity, state Parliament has been told. The O'Farrell government introduced legislation on…
By PAULINE DAVOREN Oct. 16, 2012, 6:23 p.m. RECENT NSW Government transport plans are welcome but fall far short of what is needed for the Hunter Region. The draft NSW Long Term Transport Master Plan, on exhibition until October 26, has…
By Greg Cameron Oct. 13, 2012, 4 a.m. A Newcastle terminal connected by rail to an intermodal terminal in north-western Sydney can be privately built and financed. The sooner Port Botany container- terminal operations are moved to Newcastle the better it…
By BEN SMEE Civic Reporter Oct. 5, 2012, midnight THE NSW Government says it has no plans to close the troublesome Adamstown gates, despite its transport department’s own draft master plan listing the removal of the level crossing as an ‘‘immediate short-term’’…
Author: JACOB SAULWICK Date: 29/09/2012 Words: 967 Source: SMH Few topics are as sexless as container movements. Of all the human endeavours, and there are some good ones, packing stuff into big boxes and moving those boxes around would have to be…
Australian Financial Review: PUBLISHED: 12 SEP 2012 12:49:00 | UPDATED: 18 OCT 2012 16:18:34 The Port Botany Landside Improvement Strategy aims to boost productivity by making better use of infrastructure. Computer programs, back loading and off-peak pick-ups have cut truck…
By MATTHEW KELLY Sept. 3, 2012, midnight THE real social and environmental cost of toxins buried on the former BHP steelworks land would not be known for decades, a chemical engineer who worked on contaminated soil samples taken from the site…