HOME ABOUT US ADVERTISE SUBSCRIBE SITE MAP HELP CONTACT WORK FOR US   Monday 6 September 2010 Make CIN my HomePage    LOGISTICS STORIES [ 21 Results - Showing Results 1 to 21 ] Macmahon confirms $90M contract win (Wednesday, 14 April 2010) AFTER days of media speculation, two price queries from the Australian Securities Exchange and a trading halt, Macmahon Holdings has announced that as part of the Coal Stream Alliance, it has been awarded a $90 million contract by Queensland government rail agency QR for civil works on the Goonyella to Abbot Point expansion project. Full Story... Martyn takes a rest stop (Monday, 8 March 2010) LONG-serving Australian Trucking Association chairman Trevor Martyn retires this month after four years at the helm. Full Story... Articulated truck deaths fall (Friday, 29 January 2010) FATAL accidents involving articulated trucks have fallen substantially but more preventative measures need to be taken, the Australian Trucking Association says. Full Story... CHAIN MAIL: Wrestle for $20 billion infrastructure fund underway (Thursday, 3 July 2008) IN POLITICS you can, of course, never please everyone, a message reaffirmed this week by Infrastructure Partnerships Australia’s gentle cheer for the New South Wales Government’s infrastructure audit handed to Infrastructure Australia. Full Story... Australand enters Asian logistics market (Monday, 25 February 2008) AUSTRALAND’S joint venture with Asia’s leading property group, CapitaLand, will allow the logistics company to export its strong industrial and logistics skills to the fastest growing logistics market in the world. Full Story... NMW grows in 2008 (Friday, 22 February 2008) NATIONAL Manufacturing Week 2008 is set to be much bigger this year with the incorporation of Manufacturing Technology In Focus and its associated events – Automate, Austronics and Electrix. Full Story... CHAIN MAIL: Supply chain infrastructure a national issue (Thursday, 21 February 2008) A PLETHORA of forewarning and, in some cases, negative reports in the last week have all had a similar underlying message – Australia’s supply chain infrastructure must be upgraded and better interconnected if the nation’s prosperity is to continue. Full Story... CMA moves further into NZ (Thursday, 7 February 2008) AUSTRALIAN scrap metal group CMA Corporation is further expanding its footprint in the New Zealand market with acquisitions of transport service businesses and a secondary ferrous processing operation for $NZ4.05 million ($A3.5 million). Full Story... CHAIN MAIL: Magellan tightens up lead supply chain in new Freo exports push (Thursday, 13 December 2007) MAGELLAN Metals, the company behind the Esperance lead scandal, has received approval from the Western Australian Environmental Protection Authority to export through Fremantle, but faces a public relations battle as councils along the proposed railway route gear up to fight the move. Full Story... NSW freight precinct site could be state significant (Wednesday, 12 December 2007) THE site of a proposed $315 million industrial development and freight-handling precinct at Hexham in New South Wales could be declared state significant under a proposal put forward by Planning Minister Frank Sartor. Full Story... ST Group, ALE join forces for major project work (Friday, 30 November 2007) THE increasing trend of giant modules for major industry projects being shipped from fabrication yards in the Asia-Pacific to Australian worksites has led to Australian logistics company ST Group and global integrated transport and logistics services provider ALE signing a memorandum of understanding yesterday to provide "mutually supporting services". Full Story... Heavy-lift success demonstrates logistics expertise (Monday, 26 November 2007) THE successful delivery of heavy-lift cargo in the United States and Malaysia has highlighted the expertise of an Australia-based global group of more than 80 companies with specialist handling skills. Full Story... DHL opens new $8m Brisbane global forwarding facility (Friday, 23 November 2007) DHL has opened a new purpose-built $8 million global forwarding facility in Brisbane, which it claims is setting new environmental and security standards for the logistics industry. Full Story... Goodman acquires 34ha for Perth logistics park (Monday, 12 November 2007) INTEGRATED property group Goodman has acquired a 34-hectare parcel of land, strategically located in Hazelmere, east of Perth Airport, and intends to develop it into an industrial estate. Full Story... Sandvik appoints BTS to improve logistics flow (Wednesday, 24 October 2007) SWEDEN-based Sandvik Mining and Construction has signed an agreement with consulting and training company BTS Group for the development of a program to improve the global flow of Sandvik's logistics unit. Full Story... High demand for Sydney industrial precincts (Friday, 12 October 2007) INDUSTRIAL construction levels in Sydney continue to hit new heights as major retailers, manufacturers and logistics groups merge their operations into large-scale distribution centres, according to commercial property group Knight Frank. Full Story... CHAIN MAIL: Esperance lead scandal: look after your supply chain (Thursday, 27 September 2007) WHILE Esperance residents have been justifiably outraged over the lead contamination scandal that has plagued the town for the past two years, there is one salutary lesson that could come out of this sorry episode and that is for companies to take a greater and far more pro-active interest in the integrity of their supply chains. Full Story... CHAIN MAIL: Look to young to solve labour crisis, not overseas (Thursday, 20 September 2007) NOW that a federal parliamentary inquiry has poured cold water on overseas workers taking the heat off Australia's skills crisis, a new discussion paper has revealed that up to 306,000 young Australians are either unemployed, want to work, or are under-employed. Full Story... Signal box relocation an Australian first (Wednesday, 12 September 2007) STRUCTURAL moving and heavy haulage company Mammoth Movers has undertaken a mammoth task this week with the relocation of the historic Hornsby Signal Box – a 320-tonne brick and fibreboard structure – in New South Wales. This is said to be the first time such a large structure has been moved in one piece in Australia. Full Story... Tasmanian Govt to control rail network (Monday, 10 September 2007) THE Tasmanian Parliament has passed legislation enabling the state to manage and control rail assets acquired from Pacific National following an agreement with the Federal Government on a rail rescue package. Full Story... Enfield logistics centre plans approved (Friday, 7 September 2007) THE New South Wales Government has approved plans for the $150 million Enfield Intermodal Logistics Centre, aimed at eradicating up to 300 truck movements in the suburbs around Port Botany each day. 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