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FREIGHT ON RAIL IN AUSTRALIA
Danny Broad, CEO
Australasian Railway Association28 October 2015, Brisbane
Rail is Critical for a Better Future
• For economic growth and productivity
• For international competitiveness
• For social enhancement and environmental sustainability
• For employers and employees in Australia with close to 200,000 people working in the industry
• For investment of close to $45 billion in committed investment in the next 5 years
ARA’s Priority Objectives
• To develop a world-class rail industry that contributes to a liveable and sustainable society that benefits all
• To promote a national integrated freight rail supply chain network including Inland Rail and rail to ports
• To reduce congestion in cities by growing an integrated, efficient and safe passenger rail infrastructure network
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Four Core Member Groups
Passenger FreightManufacturing &
SuppliersContractors
ARA Board
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ARA Freight Transport Group (FTG) Activities
• FTG supports 23 members
• FTG developing a Master Plan and Strategy like other sectors
• FTG Master Plan categories – Safety; Capacity & Growth; Funding & Investment; and Asset Management
• Other FTG activities include: longer term infrastructure planning – pipeline, ports and rail strategy, safety policy, asset and inventory management, SPADs and workforce development
Freight Rail Performance• Australia’s total rail freight tonnage grew by approximately 25% from 2012-13 to 2013-14
• Carried over 1.3b tonnes in 2014-15
• Of freight rail task, 98% is bulk – iron ore, coal, bauxite, grain
• Intermodal freight increased by 65% from 2009-10 to 2013-14
• Intrastate bulk freight in Western Australia—principally iron-ore movements—accounted for approximately 70% of national rail freight tonnages
• Bulk movements in Queensland and NSW—principally coal—were approximately 19% and 6%, respectively.
• Despite the reported end of the mining boom, intrastate bulk tonnages in Western Australia increased by approximately 56% from 2012–13 to 2013–14
• Intermodal freight,. Which grew significantly from 19,519 thousand net tonnes in 2009-10 to 27 559 net thousand tonnes in 2012–13, reduced to 21 891 thousand net tonnes in 2013–14, a reduction of approximately 21%
Source: Trainline 3, Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development and ARA, 2015
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Freight Rail Challenges
• Infrastructure investment – Inland Rail and rail-to-ports
• Road/rail pricing
• Environmental issues
• Coastal shipping
• Inefficiencies – double handling
• Intermodal hubs
• Quality of tracks and rollingstock
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Some Key Freight Projects
• Inland Rail
• Murray Basin Rail Project (Stage 2 commences September 2016)
• Tasmanian Freight Rail Revitalisation Program ($119.6 million of Infrastructure Investment Funding to 30 June 2019)
• Northern Sydney Freight Corridor Program (scheduled for completion in 2016)
• NSW Government reserved $400 mill for a Fixing Country Rail program
• Western Interstate Freight Terminal Melbourne (currently pre-feasibility)
• Melbourne port shuttles (privatisation of Port of Melbourne))
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• 1700km route
• Melbourne to Brisbane, bypassing Sydney
• $10 billion
• < 24 hours transit time
• Allows for 1,800m double-stacked trains
• Removing thousands of trucks from roads
• Boosting regional development
• Opens up coal haulage to Brisbane Port
• Frees up rail capacity in Sydney
Inland Rail
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Port Shuttles – Providing Inland Extensions to Port
• There are port shuttles in:
o Perth (SCT)o Adelaide (SCT)o Sydney (largely QUBE but Aurizon now running one) o Brisbane - around 5% of freight on rail o Melbourne (one port shuttle running in Melbourne (SCT) between Altona and
DP World)
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Port Shuttles – the future
• Melbourne needs dockside infrastructure to prevent double handling
• Build intermodal terminals
• ARTC has $75m to do up the connections to Port Botany e.g infrastructure, signalling, etc
• The key ingredients for port shuttles to work:
o be part of the logistics solution/ integrated planningo access to the port by railo focus of governmento investment from government and the private sectoro regulation to level the playing fieldo industry engagement - lots of players need to work togethero infrastructure at the port e.g. on dock rail
Rail Freight Solutions• BETTER PLANNING - ensure there are long term and integrated
plans in place for freight;
• SMARTER INVESTMENT – Federal Government and private sectorneed to invest in the right infrastructure at the right time;
• IMPROVED ACCESS TO PORTS – freight cities (Intermodalscombined with distribution centres) with rail connections to theport;
• LEVEL PLAYING FIELD – use the same charging mechanism fortrucks and trains - improve access, investment and chargingarrangements for heavy vehicles;
• APPROPRIATE REGULATIONS - create better and more consistentregulation across all modes (safety, environment, economic)
• INNOVATION – use of new technologies, big data and improving productivity.
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