Liverpool. Objection to concept plan

Liverpool City Council has lodged a submission with the Department of Planning and Infrastructure stating that the concept plan for the $490 million SIMTA Moorebank Intermodal Terminal Facility does not meet council’s requirements and requests further information for an assessment on local and regional impacts. SIMTA (Sydney Intermodal Terminal Alliance) is privately owned by Qube Logistics and QR National. The federal government is proposing a similar facility on adjacent Defence land.

Moorebank. Two terminals less efficient

Qube Logistics chairman, Chris Corrigan, has accused the federal government of wasting $560 million relocating a Defence Department facility from a proposed freight hub, at Moorebank, when the privately-owned, SIMTA, pushes ahead with a rival plan across the road. “A series of competing terminals is far less efficient than a single terminal operation,” he said in The Australian Financial Review.

Moorebank. Terminal on exhibition

A DA for the privately-owned SIMTA Moorebank Intermodal Terminal is on public exhibition. The applications is for the development of former defence land to be developed in three stages, comprising the following components: a) a rail link connecting the site to the Southern Sydney Freight Line; b) an intermodal terminal with a capacity to handle up to 1 million twenty foot equivalent units (TEUs) per annum; c) warehousing and distribution facilities comprising approximately 300,000 square metres of warehouses and distribution facilities; and d) a freight village of approximately 8000 square metres of support services such as site management, security offices, driver facilities, and convenience, retail and business services. The value of the estimated capital investment is $490 million.