THE intermodal terminal capacity of Pacific National's Sydney Freight Terminal (SFT) in Chullora is being doubled from 300,000 to 600,000 TEU each year with the installation of two new A$30 million (US$23.5 million) rail mounted gantry cranes supplied by Konecranes.
The new cranes will equip the SFT to operate as an interstate intermodal rail terminal as well as an import-export terminal with a direct rail link to an increasingly congested Port Botany precinct.
This link will help remove containerised freight from arterial roads around Port Botany linking with Sydney's west, said an online report from Ferret, Sydney.
Director of Pacific National, David Irwin, said the new infrastructure will allow a new 650-metre port shuttle rail service with a 90-TEU capacity to run three times a day, six days a week between Port Botany and the SFT.
The initial capacity of this service will be 75,000 TEU per annum, growing to a target capacity of 135,000 TEU per annum in future.
This rail service is expected to remove 90,000-100,000 truck journeys from roads between Port Botany and Sydney's west each year, at the same time improving the overall efficiency and competitiveness of the New South Wales freight network.
Pacific National's investment in the new cranes forms part of a A$110 million capital investment in new technology to improve the overall efficiency, capacity and on-time performance of its interstate intermodal rail freight business, which carries 60 per cent of New South Wales' rail freight.
The new rail infrastructure and port shuttle capacity comes as parent company Asciano Limited prepares to launch its state-of-the-art automated Port Botany container terminal, which will begin operation by the end of March.
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04 March 2015 - 21:54
New cranes double capacity of Pacific National's Sydney terminal
THE intermodal terminal capacity of Pacific National's Sydney Freight Terminal (SFT) in Chullora is being doubled from 300,000 to 600,000 TEU each year with the installation of two new A$30 million (US$23.5 million) rail mounted gantry cranes supplied by Konecranes.
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04 March 2015 - 21:54
New cranes double capacity of Pacific National's Sydney terminal
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