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Tassie plan riles locals
New players enter
Wiri plan
A plan by the Tasmanian Govern-
Spanish rail market
ment to concentrate the state’s con-
on track
tainer trade in Devonport and Bell Euro Cargo Rail (ECR), now part tracts operations to Continental
Ports of Auckland Ltd (POAL)
Bay has infuriated north-west and of Railion Deutschland through Rail, which belongs to ACS, with
and New Zealand Govern-
west coast shippers and alienated EWS, has commenced container Construrail providing some of the
ment-owned rail infrastructure
users of the Port of Burnie. rail services between Zaragoza and container flats. Sicsa is also offer-
manager ONTRACK have
State Infrastructure Minister Barcelona. Spanish rail freight ing two weekly pairs between Va-
reached agreement on terms for
Graeme Sturges revealed the strat- services were deregulated in Janu- lencia and Leon/Valladolid.
the establishment of a rail ex-
egy when announcing the govern- ary 2005, but until now all open Meanwhile, Renfe has with-
change linking POAL’s inland
ment’s success in attracting access operators (Continental Rail, draw its direct multi-user con-
port at Wiri, South Auckland,
A$150M of federal Infrastructure Comsa Transport, Tracción Rail tainer rail service linking Bilbao
to the Main Trunk Line.
Australia funding for reclamation and Acciona Rail Services) have with Barcelona, leaving Galicia-
The project involves an up-
and expansion works at Bell Bay.
Tasports wants to free up space at Burnie to accommodate growing bulk exports
had majority Spanish equity. Barcelona as the one remaining
grade of the rail sidings and the
State-owned Tasports, which ECR can offer services be- transversal service currently being
construction of a hardstand ad-
controls all ports state-wide, says it deal with a forecast substantial in- been consulted by Tasports about tween Madrid, Barcelona and the operated. All containers from Bil-
jacent to the 15-hectare,
wants to free up space at Burnie crease in container transport. its plans, even though it operates French border (Port Bou) and bao en route to Barcelona must
NZ$19M Wiri Inland Port,
for expansion of bulk trades, mostly The expanded area at Bell Bay two ro-ros on a nightly overnight between Madrid and Valencia. It now pass through Madrid.
which borders the North Island
generated by the mineral-rich west will be used as a staging and op- service to Melbourne and had been is seeking permission to operate Six trains/week between the
Main Trunk line. The sidings
coast. The implication is that erational area for container traffic, seeking to expand its own termi- between Valencia and Barcelona. two cities remain, but these are
and hardstand area will remain
Burnie’s largest user, Bass Strait which is currently growing by nal in Burnie. Divisional general In another development, Sicsa marketed by private companies
owned by ONTRACK.
feeder operator Toll Shipping, will around 5.5% each year. While the manager Tony Stewart dismissed Rail Transport is offering a new MacAndrews (three), Cecotrans-
POAL managing directer
have to find a new base elsewhere. growth rate is expected to slow, the idea of a move to Bell Bay. “We rail service between Valencia and Biz (two) and one by Cosco.
Jens Madsen said the rail con-
Sturges said the proposed ex- increases will continue with con- have no intention of moving to Bell Madrid. Initially, three train pairs/ For those containers forced to
nection, which POAL sees as a
pansion of the Bell Bay port tainer traffic through the port fore- Bay...there would be a lot of im- week will be offered, although fre- move via Madrid, journey times
north/south stepping stone for
through an 8.38 hectare deep-wa- cast to double by 2023. portant businesses on the north- quency may increase to daily will be longer, costs more expen-
importers and exporters, would
ter reclamation was a “vital step” in “The long term strategy is to west coast that would be disadvan- shortly. Trains hauled are 600m sive and congestion at terminals
provide substantial environ-
ensuring Tasmania’s transport sys- consolidate container traffic at taged if we did that,” he said. long and can load up to 1200t - in the capital could delay arrivals.
mental and economic benefits
tem met the challenges of the fu- Devonport and Bell Bay with the Local government and indus- the highest capacity container It has been pointed out that,
to Auckland and New Zealand.
ture. The project would remove an highest growth at Bell Bay. This in try have backed Stewart’s assess- trains in Spain. The Euro 4000 in the past, if Renfe was unable to
“This is great news for Auck-
infrastructure bottleneck for Tasma- turn will free up space at Burnie ment, saying the loss of container locos used on the services can sell the majority of slots on its
land,” he said. “We’ll be able to
nia’s import and export dependent for bulk exports,” Sturges said. services would cost thousands of transport up to 82 TEU. multi-user container trains, con-
move more freight by rail, even-
industries, he claimed, and was criti- Toll Shipping confirmed it had jobs, signal the demise of rail freight Sicsa, which is the logistics tainers would be incorporated
tually saving a forecast 100,000
cal in ensuring the state was able to been asked to move but had not services, and impose large costs. operator of the service, sub-con- into the following service anyway.
truck trips per annum. A large
portion of Ports of Auckland’s
Embraport fully financed
The decision by the FGTS to 200,000 vehicles, 2 mt of dry bulk
import containers arriving from
associate itself with Coimex was and 5M m
3
of liquid bulk, espe-
overseas can be moved by rail
made public in October last year cially ethanol.
to Wiri, then taken by truck to
by the group’s vice president,
local businesses.”
a71 Santos Brasil, the biggest con-
The governing council of the cil of FGTS. When it commences the money will be used to upgrade Orlando Machado, who denied tainer terminal operator in the
Once up to speed in the sec-
Time of Service Guarantee Fund operations within two years, the the rail network of América Latina that there had been any problems Port of Santos, has beaten two
ond half of 2009, the service is
(FGTS), a Brazilian pension fund, facility, touted as the largest pri- Logística (ALL), which currently in sourcing sufficient investment operational records. On January
forecast to save up to 2.5M
has authorised the release of re- vate sector port development in serves existing terminals in the for the project. 5, the terminal achieved an aver-
truck kilometres per year.
sources for the construction of Brazil to date, will be able to han- port of Santos, while US$205M It will take US$500M to im- age hourly productivity of 91.42
POAL plans to close its East
Coimex Group’s Terminal dle up to 10 mtpa. will go directly into the port de- plement, occupying an area of moves when working the CAP SAN
Tamaki Inland Port, transferring
Embraport at the port of Santos. In all, US$4.52B has been velopment as from October this 800,000 m
2
with 1100m of quay. MARCO. In all, 668 containers
the volumes handled there to
The announcement was made made available from the Fund’s year. The rest of the money will The work, which will be carried were exchanged during 7.7 hours
Wiri. The port aims to lift the
by the Minister of Work and Em- investment body, the FI-FGTS, finance construction of the Santo out in stages, will eventually al- involving 36 hatches. One crane
proportion of cargo carried by
ployment, Carlos Lupi, who is also which is used to provide finance Antonio hydroelectric station on low the terminal to handle an- also produced a new record of
rail to 30% of throughput, com-
president of the governing coun- for infrastructure projects. Part of the Madeira River. nually 1.2M TEU of containers, 24.1 moves in a single hour.
pared to 12% currently.
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