QRNational

Infobox Company
name =

type = Division
foundation = 2004
location_city = flagicon|AUS Brisbane
location_country = Australia
key_people = Stephen Cantwell, Group Executive General Manager Freight
Lance Hockridge, Chief Executive Officer
area_served = Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia
locations = 59
industry = Rail transport
products = Coal, bulk and containerised freight
services = Logistics, supply chain management, line haul and terminal operations
revenue = increase A$2,413.9 million (06/07)
operating_income =
net_income =
num_employees =
divisions = Bulk, Coal, Intermodal, Freight
parent = QR Limited
subsid = Australian Railroad Group, CRT Group, Interail
slogan =
homepage = [http://www.qrnational.com.au/ www.qrnational.com.au]
intl = yes

QRNational is a rail freight transport company in Australia, an operating arm of the Queensland government owned and based operator QR. It was established in the 2004/2005 financial year with the charter to operate freight services in Queensland and around Australia, expanding though the winning of contracts and the acquisition of other companies.cite journal | author = Peter Attenborough | year = 2007 | month = February | title = QRNational | journal = Australian Model Railway Magazine | volume = 23 | issue = 262 | pages = page 30 ]

History

The company grew out of QR's Coal and Freight Services Group, along with QR subsidiary Interail. In late June 2005, rail operator QRNational announced it had acquired the assets of the CRT Group,cite journal | author = Peter Attenborough | year = 2006 | month = February | title = Colin Rees Transport (CRT) | journal = Australian Model Railway Magazine | volume = 22 | issue = 256 | pages = page 36 ] which became a separate operating entity of QRNational in July 1 2005. This was followed in 2007 by the acquisition of the rollingstock, depots and customer contracts of the Australian Railroad Group in New South Wales, South Australia and Western Australia for $446 million AUD. [cite web | url = http://www.abc.net.au/news/items/200602/1569375.htm | title = Qld Rail 'goes national' with freight expansion | work = ABC News Online | date = February 14 2006 | accessdate=2008-03-03 ]

In Queensland, the major traffic is coal, both for export and domestic power generation.cite web | url = http://www.qrnational.com.au/about_freight/coal/about_coal.asp | title = QRNational - Coal - About coal | work = About QRNational | accessdate = 2008-03-03 ] QRNational commenced the transport of export coal in the New South Wales Hunter Valley coalfields in 2005, and by November 2007 the QRNational network covered the entire mainland (except the Northern Territory) with the operation of their first Melbourne to Perth intermodal container service. [cite web | url = http://www.freight.qr.com.au/Freight/News_room/Current/News_Articles/908expansion.asp | title = QR completes another phase in its national strategy with coast-to-coast rail freight services | work = QRNational - News articles | date = 12 October 2007 | accessdate=2008-03-03]

In July 2008 QRNational took over the Melbourne - Horsham container service for Wimmera Container Lines, after the withdrawal of Pacific National. [cite web
url=http://wimmera.yourguide.com.au/news/local/news/general/rail-to-roll-on/1229118.aspx
title=Rail to roll on
work=Wimmera Mail Times
date=28/07/2008
publisher=yourguide.com.au
accessdate=2008-07-30]

ee also

*Queensland Rail
*Australian Railroad Group
*Pacific National

References

External links

* [http://www.qrnational.com.au/ QRNational]