ACCC challenging effective limits placed on Port of Newcastle container expansion. This will be interesting to watch (and may change how rail transport dynamics work, eg Crawfords and Toll Carrington train)
I agree and would like to see this limitation removed. It would significantly free up port botany and make port access much cheaper for northern and north western nsw businesses.
Are containers loaded and unloaded at Wollongong?
yes, along with cars, grain, coal and other stuff
What was the bridge and tunnel built?I think he's referring to the Hawesberry Bridge and Woy Woy tunnel.
I firmly agree the ACCC is right as you cannot penalise someone for lowering costs (Newcastle Port) to facilitate new business and provide competitive container terminal capability.
I agree and would like to see this limitation removed. It would significantly free up port botany and make port access much cheaper for northern and north western nsw businesses.It would need to be able to attract enough volumes for ships to warrant calling there. this might be possible, but it might not either. I don't know (others might) how many TEUs this is per day/week/month/year etc.
Ships are far more efficient than trains, but only once they get going. Making an extra port call is extremely expensive, so it would be likely that there would be very few ships, or even none at all, calling at both Newcastle and Sydney.I agree and would like to see this limitation removed. It would significantly free up port botany and make port access much cheaper for northern and north western nsw businesses.It would need to be able to attract enough volumes for ships to warrant calling there. this might be possible, but it might not either. I don't know (others might) how many TEUs this is per day/week/month/year etc.
Also, if NTL becomes a container port, odds are that the current port shuttles ex Newcastle/Hunter (ie Crawfords/Sandgate and Toll/Carrington) will be impacted as might the prospective Werris Creek loading. With a port in the region, why rail it to Botany?
If it's restricted to ships loading containerised bulk freight (which may have no other reason to come into Sydney) then it could see a small reduction in tonne.kilometres but without losing anything to road.I guess if you can restrict containers coming into Sydney that dont need to go there, and not have any significant increase in transport cost, that would be a good transport policy solution. Containersisd grain would be a big component. And perhaps by doing so you might be pushing the same types of (and consignments of?) cargoes that already go to the same place, justifying a ship calling there instead of Sydney?
There's the flip side to consider too - that you would probably start requiring some freight to/from the Sydney area to go via Newcastle instead of the perfectly good port in Sydney. Given the smaller numbers of ships which would call at Newcastle, this freight would probably go by road.If it's restricted to ships loading containerised bulk freight (which may have no other reason to come into Sydney) then it could see a small reduction in tonne.kilometres but without losing anything to road.I guess if you can restrict containers coming into Sydney that dont need to go there, and not have any significant increase in transport cost, that would be a good transport policy solution. Containersisd grain would be a big component. And perhaps by doing so you might be pushing the same types of (and consignments of?) cargoes that already go to the same place, justifying a ship calling there instead of Sydney?
Also, if NTL becomes a container port, odds are that the current port shuttles ex Newcastle/Hunter (ie Crawfords/Sandgate and Toll/Carrington) will be impacted as might the prospective Werris Creek loading. With a port in the region, why rail it to Botany?
Does Newcastle really have the capacity to handle containers with all the higher priced bulk ?The other issue is the imbalance between loaded and empty boxes. Most boxes coming into NSW would be destined for DCs in the Sydney area. You would never be able to source enough empty boxes in the Newcasle area to supply Fletcher's for instance.
Then the idea of Newcastle taking business from Sydney would be silly. More likely to take new business from regional centres to port and back ?The only way that container ships will call there is if there are enough containers going in/out to make the call worth it.
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