To improve landside efficiency and ensure trucking operators are paid for waiting times
Sydney,NSW,Australia -Supply Chain -December 6, 2010: -- The first phase of reforms to the running of Port Botany begins today to improve landside efficiency and ensure trucking operators are paid for waiting times... Following the recent approval by Ports and Waterways Minister, Eric Roozendaal, the Port Botany Landside Improvement Strategy (PBLIS) has been introduced... Sydney Ports will now begin gathering landside performance information from stevedores and setting a new rail service charge... PBLIS will be introduced progressively, with paid waiting times to take effect from early next year. Currently only trucking operators are penalised for missing schedules... The NSW branch of the Australian Trucking Association hopes the changes will lead to faster turnaround times for trucks and a reduction in traffic congestion...* Victoria - Linfox snaps up new Freightliner truck
Essendon Fields,VIC,Australia -Supply Chain, by Gary Worrall -December 3, 2010: -- Linfox is the first major fleet to sign on the dotted line for the Coronado, Freightliner’s new hero truck launched last week... With 50 units ordered for road train operations in South and Western Australia, Linfox says the trucks will be used to service jobs in the resources sector, where the company is finding its work “expanding”... Freightliner’s Coronado enjoyed its full public debut in Melbourne on Wednesday, with a media preview of the new model... Held at the picturesque Flemington racecourse in central Melbourne, the Coronado launch is the first in a series of new or updated Freightliners arriving down under over the next 18 months...
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