FreightLink

FreightLink

FreightLink is a railway freight operator in Australia that operates over the Adelaide-Darwin railway.

History

In 2000, the AustralAsia Rail Corporation awarded the contract to build and operate the Adelaide to Darwin railway as a Build, Own, Operate and Transfer back project to the Asia Pacific Transport Consortium, which in turn awarded the contract to FreightLink to build and operate the project.

FreightLink commenced operations in January 2004 on the Darwin-Tarcoola line. FreightLink operates intermodal terminals at Adelaide, Alice Springs, Tennant Creek, Katherine, and Darwin. It performs marketing, integrated service management and management of service providers. A number of operational activities are outsourced to specialist providers including train and terminal management, port terminal operations and rail maintenance.

In May 2008 the Adelaide to Darwin line was ordered by the lending banks to Freightlink to be sold. [ cite news
author = Vesna Poljak and Michael Smith
title = Banks force sale of $1.2bn Adelaide- Darwin rail link
work = The Australian Financial Review
date = 2008-05-19
page = 1 and 19 ] In June 2008 FreightLink announced that it would add an extra weekly rail service between Adelaide and Darwin due to growing demand, taking the total number of services to six. [cite web
url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/24/2284651.htm
title=Extra Adel-Darwin rail service starts
work=ABC News
date=June 24, 2008
publisher=www.abc.net.au
accessdate=2008-07-09]

References

External links

* [http://www.freightlink.com.au/ Official site]


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