Who is Freightlink???

[mauried@tpg.com.au (Maurie Daly)]

>From reading thru the NT Govts web site on the AP to Darwin Railway ,
I am now more confused than ever.
It seems that Freightlink is the operational arm of the Consortium who
will 


" .Once the Alice Springs to Darwin section of the line is completed,
the consortium’s operating arm, FreightLink, will
     provide an integrated door-to-door, one-invoice system, with
computerised ‘mobile warehousing’. The consortium
     expects to win over much of the current ‘contestable’ freight (or
freight which could go by either road or rail) on the
     basis of cheaper, reliable and faster service. FreightLink and
the Governments will also be working to attract new trade,
     partly with the generation of new enterprises along the railway
corridor and also with a shift in trading patterns from Asia.
" Provide a door to door freight service for customers and endeavour
to attract more rail freight to the Consortium from existing rail and
road operators."


Does this mean that the Consortium is going to run its own trains
between Darwin and wherever else ?
If so , what locos and rollingstock are they going to use ?
When are we likley to see a new order for new locos and rollingstock
to use the new line ?

Is Freightlink going to compete with existing Rail operators.?

MD