Re: Some interesting info from NRCs and ARTCs annual reports.

["Dave Proctor" <thadocta@spambait.dingoblue.net.au>]

Brown Family wrote in message <389f9a03.9945733@news.ocean.com.au>...

>Another source of traffic might be to make Perth the first
>port-of-call for shipping from Europe and Africa.
>
>Rather than load to rail in Melbourne or Sydney, it might be just as
>efficient, cheaper and quicker, to load directly to rail in Perth for
>railing to points on the East Coast. Make the TAR a kind of land
>bridge. It would certainly make shipping turn around times a lot
>faster. A similar system exists in North America, but the costs
>savings there would be many magnitudes higher than in Australia.

That is the main justification for the Darwin - Alice Springs line - to
enable the ships to have a faster round trip by turning them around at
Darwin rather than sending them all the way to Sydney or Melboring.

Dave