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

[pcc@ocean.com.au (Brown Family)]

On Fri, 12 May 2000 13:58:26 GMT, Mark Bau <markbau@altavista.com>
wrote:

>> The only time shipper will use
>>> land bridging is when they have less than a ship load of freight and
>>> therefore land briding is more economic.
>
>Funny that entire shiploads are land bridged from LA to the Gulf of Mexico
>thus avoiding the Panama canal then.
>
>Mark.
>
Planning has already started on a container rail service from Europe
to Asia which will cut travel time for a container from 26 days to 6
days. If you add in a roll-on/roll-off ship to transfer
Australian-bound European containers from Singapore to Darwin, a
container could realistically travel from Melbourne/Sydney to London
in less than a fortnight.

I believe there are plans to link Vietnam with China and Malaysia thus
providing a rail service from Shanghai to Singapore

Development of a rail-line to Darwin and elsewhere in places such as
India and Turkey will provide tremendous potential for rail services.

Les Brown
Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose.