NSW based Company wins 10 year Leigh Creek coal haul contract.

[telljb@OZozemail.com.au (< Tell >)]

NSW based Company wins 10 year Leigh Creek coal haul
contract.  That's what the Adelaide Advertiser told its
readers yesterday.

[quoted directly from page 58]
RAIL DEAL HAULS IN FREIGHT COSTS
FreightCorp has signed a ten year contract with
Flinders Power to haul coal to the Port Augusta Power
Station, the price not disclosed due to "commercial
reasons", "we compete in a national industry and that
information is commercially sensitive" said a Flinders
Power spokesman.

FreightCorp won a "temporary" contract last year from
Australian Southern Railroad which was using ageing
rolling stock it acquired from Australian National.

FreightCorp brought later model locomotives and wagons
to SA and it operates six trains per week with three
locomotives and 160 wagons.

Each coal train, claimed to be the longest in the
country carries 9600 tonnes of brown coal for 2.8
million tonnes per year.

The managing Director of FreightCorp Mr Lucio Di
Bartolomo said single driver trains were being used to
reduce costs.
[end direct quotes from the Advertiser]

Note the "NSW based Company", no mention it belongs to
the NSW government and the "longest" train bit.

Attention Crow Eaters, you have been done again.!

----Terry Burton