Moorebank Thirty-seven firms interested

Thirty-seven companies have taken part in market briefings for the federal government’s Moorebank Intermodal Terminal project including large freight operators, freight users, financiers and construction companies from Australia and overseas. Tenders for the design, construction and operation of the terminal are expected to be open in mid- 2013.

Liverpool. Council seeking support

The Western Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils (WSROC) will consider, at its meeting on June 21, Liverpool City Council’s request for financial assistance and other support for its campaign on the proposed Moorebank Intermodal Freight Terminal.

Moorebank. Terminal proposal supported

The Property Council supports the proposal by Sydney Intermodal Terminal Alliance (SIMTA) to redevelop a site at Moorebank for a rail link and intermodal terminal to transport container freight. The council said the NSW Government should continue to facilitate delivery of the SIMTA Intermodal Terminal and the associated road and rail infrastructure. The council urged the government to deliver additional intermodal freight links at Ingleburn, Minto and Eastern Creek. It said the sites and infrastructure corridors need to be preserved as a matter of priority.

Moorebank. Union supports facility

The Rail, Tram and Bus Union says it supports the federal government's proposal for a freight container storage facility at Moorebank because it would meet increasing demand for freight transport in NSW, however more must be done to relieve congestion on the existing network.

Moorebank. Funds to move Defence

A sum of $559 million has been allocated in the federal Budget to relocate the Department of Defence facilities, at Moorebank, to enable the establishment of the proposed Moorebank Intermodal Terminal.

Moorebank. Support for government terminal

The country's biggest transport company, Toll Holdings, has thrown its support behind a federal government-sponsored freight terminal, at Moorebank, that is to be partly funded in tomorrow's budget. The federal opposition and business groups have fiercely criticised the government's proposal for a large terminal at Moorebank and instead support a rival plan by a consortium led by Chris Corrigan's Qube Logistics to build a terminal on a separate site across the road.

Moorebank. Announcement likely today

The federal government council announce as early as today that it is pushing ahead with plans for the $1.6 billion Moorebank Intermodal Terminal, threatening to derail a rival proposal by a consortium led be Chris Corrigan’s Qube Logistics Holdings, The Australian Financial Review reported.

Moorebank. Facility on exhibition

The Department of Planning and Infrastructure has on public exhibition a development Sydney Intermodal Terminal Alliance (SIMTA), a consortium of Stockland, Qube Logistics and QR National, of 83-hectares of defence land at Moorebank to be developed in three stages. Qube has urged the NSW government to approve its plans before a rival federal government proposal. Qube’s terminal, estimated to cost $490 million, could be built by 2014, up to four years before the federal plan, and a little or no cost to taxpayers.

Moorebank. Assessment lodged

Qube Logistics and QR National have submitted an environmental assessment of their plans for a freight terminal, at Moorebank, to the Department of Planning and the Environment. Qube and QR plan to operate the terminal jointly for at least 10 years, according to The Australian Financial Review.

Region. Freight terminals

Sydney Ports Corporation says freight terminals at Moorebank and Eastern Creek are required “within two to three years” to support the state government’s target to double the proportion of rail freight to and from Port Botany to 28 per cent by 2020.

Moorebank. Qube buys stake in terminal

Qube Logistics will control a joint venture proposing to develop a $1 billion freight terminal, at Moorebank, after striking a deal with Stockland to acquire its 55 per cent stake in the Sydney Intermodal Terminal Alliance, with QR National. Qube paid $123 million for the stake. Qube CEO, Maurice James, said in The Australian Financial Review he expected to be railing goods to Port Botany by early 2014.

Moorebanl. Meeting on freight to Port Botany

Federal and state bureaucrats and the private sector will hold a meeting in Sydney today to fast-track construction of a port shuttle, or train, to take cargo to and from Port Botany on a 31-kilometre Southern Sydney Freight Line under construction. The cargo will arrive or depart from a proposed intermodal terminal at Moorebank, adjacent to a terminal proposed by the Sydney Intermodal Freight Terminal Alliance. The local community oppose both proposals.

Moorebank. Defence holds up terminal

The Defence Department is frustrating the development of a of a freight terminal, at Moorebank, which is estimated to take up yo a million trucks of the nearby M5, according to The Australian Financial Review. The terminal was first proposed in 2004

Moorebank. Halt to terminal

A spokesperon for the Premier said Barry O’Farrell would stand by his pre-election promise to halt the controversial Moorebank intermodal terminal pending further community consultation.

Moorebank. Freight terminal plans

Detailed design and approval of the Moorebank Intermodal Freight Terminal would be completed by mid to late 2011 and, subject to planning outcomes, its staged development is proposed to start in late 2012 or 2013, said Gavin Bishop, national director industrial, for Colliers International.

Moorebank. Report to Department of Planning

The Sydney Intermodal Terminal Alliance (SIMTA) has lodged its preliminary environmental assessment of the Moorebank Intermodal Terminal project with the Department of Planning. Development could commence in 2013 if the project is approved. The federal government allocated $70 million in this year’s budget for planning the terminal. A total of $300 million will go towards the freight hub

Liverpool. Council seeks move of terminal

Liverpool City Council has voted to support moving the proposed rail and freight terminal, at Moorebank, to federally-owned land at Badgerys Creek. At Monday night’s meeting, the council Council will work with Penrith and Camden councils to lobby the federal and state governments on moving the terminal to the former airport site. The federal government allocated $70 million in this year’s budget for planning the Moorebank terminal. A total of $300 million will go towards the freight hub. A spokesman for federal Infrastructure Minister, Anthony Albanese, said the government was committed to the Moorebank site. “However the project is still in the early stages of development,” the spokesman said.

Region. Freight link commences in 2011

The first section of track on the 36-kilometre South Sydney Freight Line, between Leightonfield and Sefton, will be laid between March and July 2011. The rest of the line will be built in two stages. Once complete the line will provide a freight-only link between Port Botany and the proposed Moorebank intermodal terminal.

Liverpool. Protest against $70m terminal

Liverpool City Council has set Sunday August 15 for its protest rally against the planned $70 million Moorebank container terminal. A council press release said the rally will “say NO'' to the intermodal freight terminal. Infrastructure Minister Anthony Albanese said that the terminal would inject hundreds of new jobs into the area. More than $35 million was allocated towards planning, surveys and community consultation in the last Federal Government budget. A further $35 million was set aside for relocating the School of Military Engineering, currently located at the site, to nearby Holsworthy Army Base. Developer Stockland and its partners also own a site across the road, known as the Defence National Distribution Centre and plan to develop it into a secondary container facility.

Penrith. Business welcomes Moorebank project

The Penrith Business Alliance (formerly the Penrith Economic Development Corporation) has welcomed the $71 million which has been allocated in the federal budget to complete the detailed planning on the Moorebank intermodal terminal project, in the Liverpool local government area. “Penrith is pushing to be a regional transport and logistics hub.We have trucking businesses in the area and the new one at Moorebank will help us,” CEO, Bijai Kumar, said in the Penrith Press.