ALC welcomes 50th member

Moorebank Intermodal Company has been welcomed as the 50th member of the Australian Logistics Council.

“ALC is delighted to welcome the Moorebank Intermodal Company as its newest member and I look forward to working with Chair Kerry Schott, CEO Ian Hunt and the team on measures to improve national freight efficiency,” said ALC Managing Director Michael Kilgariff.

“ALC has been evolving and growing substantially since its strategic repositioning and with Moorebank Intermodal Company becoming ALC’s 50th member, it reinforces ALC’s role as the peak national body for the freight logistics industry.

“The ALC membership includes Australia’s largest freight logistics companies and it is appropriate that MIC would position themselves as a national logistics company.

“Intermodal terminals, such as Moorebank, are an integral part of the supply chain and will play an increasingly important role as Australia’s freight task increases.

“Without doubt, Moorebank is one of Australia’s key inland ports, and in many respects it is one of Australia’s most important pieces of freight logistics real estate.

“ALC believes the entire site needs to be developed in a manner that most efficiently facilitates the movement of freight to and from Port Botany within the shortest time frame.

“The key to achieving this is by developing the entire site ‘englobo’ using a whole-of-precinct approach.”

Kilgariff said Australia’s major intermodal terminals, where road and rail freight interface, are critical to boosting productivity, efficiency and safety in the freight logistics industry.

“Given Australia’s rising national freight task and increasing levels of congestion on major freight routes, ALC encourages governments to continue to support the growth of intermodal terminals within their jurisdictions.

“These terminals include Moorebank and Enfield in Sydney, the proposed Western Intermodal Freight Terminal in Melbourne, Bromelton in Brisbane and Kewdale in Perth.”

The Moorebank Intermodal Company was established in December 2012 to engage and oversee the private sector development of the Moorebank Intermodal Terminal in Sydney’s south-west. The terminal will be built on a 220 hectare site at Moorebank (west of Moorebank Ave) and will be able to handle import-export and interstate freight.

Expressions of interest in the project are expected to be called for in late 2013, with construction of the Intermodal Terminal expected to commence in mid-2015. The facility is expected to be open for business in late 2017.