Re: Darwin Gateway to Australia: was.... (OT)Re: Darwin port to be expanded.

["< Tell >" <telljb@netozemail.com.au>]

It certainly is the point, and will work if the right
people are involved with it.

Double stack is "standard" on the TAS & TAR lines.
>From Darwin to Tarcoola they can go either West or
South, but unfortunately for the foreseeable future
will have to be singled to go from either Adelaide to
Melbourne, or Parkes to Sydney.

Forget the VFT Melbourne to Darwin folks, rail in Oz
can do the job right now for a fraction of the cost and
road transport will NEVER compete with 1.8 km (or
longer) double stack conventional freights.

.....Tell


>"Rod Young" <freight_man@hotmail.com> wrote:

> That's the whole point of the Railway, mate.
> These large super ships cost/charge hundreds of thousands of dollars a day
> to operate. In the time Heavy Shipping takes to go round Australia dropping
> off at Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth, they could return to
> their Asian Port and reload for another paying voyage.
> If a heavy duty Railway is built properly, and links all these Ports with a
> reliable, and quick transport system, Darwin WILL be Australia's biggest
> Port. That is as long as we continue to Trade heavily with our Asian
> neighbours. Patrick's have for about three years now being doing just that,
> from Perth, allowing ships to stop once only in Australia, and the
> "Patrick's trains" link to the Eastern States
> Now you should understand, and this has been talked about repeatedly in the
> press and this group!
> ;o)