Re: V/Line Freight

["Tezza" <tezza@atinet.com.au>]

Krel wrote in message <3593a9e2.27026664@news.netconnect.com.au>...
>On Fri, 26 Jun 1998 13:06:40 +1000, Bob <gioia@fastlink.com.au> wrote:
>>David & Julie Donald wrote:
>>> I am told that ATN is the preferred purchaser of V/Line Freight,
>>> Word is that ATN's next target is Westrail.


>>I didn't know that Westrail was to be privatized? What about NRC, didn't
Howard
>>indicate that the Federal Government was to sell their 40% and Kennett
also wants to
>>sell his 20% ?
>
>NRC's sale is held up due to the Vic Governments insistance on selling
>NRC without the Melbourne terminals!!!! The Vics insist that NRC only
>lease the land for the Melbourne Freight Terminal, Melbourne
>Operations Terminal and the Melbourne Steel Terminal. NRC can spend
>lots of dollars to improve the sites (which they had to) but cannot
>make any operational changes without approval from VicTrack
>(previously it was V/Line).


They can't sell NRC with NSW's approval and Bob Carr is refusing to agree.