Re: BHP nailed down to National tracks - "The Age" Article

[mauried@commslab.gov.au (Maurie Daly)]

In article <36d313b6.2833199@news.enternet.com.au> steam4me@enternet.com.au (Yuri J  Sos/Melbourne AUS) writes:
>From: steam4me@enternet.com.au (Yuri J  Sos/Melbourne AUS)
>Subject: BHP nailed down to National tracks  - "The Age" Article
>Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 20:51:52 GMT

>In today's Business section of "The Age"
>at 

>http://www.theage.com.au/daily/990224/bus/bus10.html


This is a good article and it brings up a couple of interesting points.
National Rail are yet to make a profit and are experiancing increased annual 
losses.
This is despite having a fleet of the most modern and fuel efficient locos in 
the country.
Also National Rail is now operating in accordance with worlds best practice 
and achieving freight rates of 2.5 c per ntk , generally accepted as good as 
you can get.
Under these sorts of conditions NRC should be making respectable  profits,so 
whats wrong.?
One has to ask what would any private owner of NRC do differantly to change 
things around.?

MD