bryan nye, australasian railway association - delivering improvements to rail freight with the...
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Bryan Nye, CEO, Australasian Railway Association presented "Delivering improvements to rail freight with the Northern Sydney Freight Corridor Program" at Ausintermodal 2013. This annual conference discusses the most up-to-date industry news on intermodal transport in Australia, and look at the latest initiatives to advance the efficient movement of containerised freight for rail, road and sea. For more information, please visit the conference website: http://www.informa.com.au/ausintermodal2013TRANSCRIPT
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Delivering improvements to
Rail Freight
Bryan Nye CEO
Sydney, 9 Oct 2013
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6th largest rail network globally
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Our annual customers...
930 million tonnes
of freight 784 million customer
journeys
Our passenger and freight rail networks are at
or exceeding capacity
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Rail Industry: Size
• Labour force: 44,210 people
(+70,000 working in industries
supporting rail)
• Investment commitments in rollingstock
and track $36 billion
• Track 44,262 km in Australia
• Over 2,276 locomotives and 32,000
wagons and carriages
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Rail – on the national agenda
• Massive investment in national network
• Funding for urban projects – Cross City Tunnel, Melbourne Metro, electrification of Adelaide’ s urban network, Perth expansion Untangling freight and passenger networks
• Access to ports
• New train control technology (ATMS)(GSMR)
• Light Rail emergence
• Intermodals being developed
• Level Crossings being upgraded
• Inland Rail
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Passengers
That means an
additional 80 million
trips taken on our trains
every week for the last 4
years!
Urban Passenger Rail 767.68 million journeys in 2012
(11.8% increase since 2008)
Non-Urban Passenger Rail 16.51 million journeys in 2012
(23.4% increase since 2008)
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Rail freight – The big picture
20010/11 2011/12 Change
Ore 435.08 496.25 14.06%
Coal 305.06 306.77 0.56%
Sugar 25.23 25.43 0.79%
Bauxite 17.79 17.35 -2.47%
Other Bulk 56.76 61.52 8.39%
Non-Bulk 19.58 22.32 13.99%
Total 859.5 929.64 8.16% * Numbers in million tones.
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Freight task to double within 20 years
409 million
794 million
2011 2031
Total freight moved in NSW /year (million tonnes)
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Rail’s share of containerised freight
Rail’s share of containerised freight
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Some lines need work!
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Over 300 years old…
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Agriculture and rail
• The agricultural sector represents
around 15% of the nations GDP
• Transport is a critical component and
rail can play a much larger role
• The ARA is working with the NFF and
others to promote improvements in the
supply chain (e.g containerisation)
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Freight from road to rail
• Everyone says it – safe, environmental
benefits, efficient
• It is happening
• It requires investment in infrastructure,
processes and systems
• It requires a re-think re investing in
roads
• It requires the rail industry to play its
part
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What do rail customers want?
A Woolworths’ perspective
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• Reliability (meet advertised availability times)
• Right balance of service, cost and risk
• customer- focused – understand customers’ needs
• Understand its impact on customers’ supply chains
• Need to be able to compete with road freight – productivity and flexibility
• Logistics – efficient terminal access and locations
• Price
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Inland Rail
$4.5 - $6 billion
Required to complete
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Inland Rail:
TRANSFORMING the transport sector • Increase rail’s reliability and efficiency
– double stacking, longer trains,
– avoids Sydney bottlenecks
– 2m tonnes of freight each year simply pass through Sydney
– reduce travel times by up to 7hrs, train speeds of 110kmph
• Increase rail’s market share
– 80% on Brisbane - Melbourne
– up to 25% for shorter legs
• Eastern Corridor: Highest freight volume in Australia
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Inland Rail – progress
• $300m currently in Federal Labor budget from 2014/15 for pre construction works
• Coalition have matched the funding with 3 key differences: – A 10 year timeline for construction from 2016-2026
– Additional funding from the QLD Government- so far committed $67 million for passing loops and tunnel expansions
– Stated link to a Port of Brisbane proposed new corridor through Brisbane.
• Critical element is the tunnel through the Toowoomba Range and route down to Port of Brisbane
• Remainder of funding to be determined
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Northern Sydney Freight Corridor
• Planned to enhance the capacity and
reliability of the freight rail network and
passenger services between Newcastle
and Sydney
• Currently a major bottleneck for rail into
and out of Sydney
• $1.1 billion commitment in December 2011
– $840 million federal government
– $214 million state government
• ¼ of the sections of work completed so far
• All scheduled for completion in 2016
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Northern Sydney Freight Corridor
• Will allow rail to be more competitive by:
– Improving access through Northern Sydney to
metropolitan network, Port Botany and container
freight terminals
– Improving reliability of passenger services into
and out of the North of Sydney
– Reduce restrictions to freight rail caused by
priority of passenger services during peak times
– Reduced transit times and increased reliability
will making freight rail cheaper
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HIGH SPEED RAIL
Catching up with the world
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The preferred route
• 1,748 km
• 4 city stations
• 4 city-peripheral
stations
• 12 regional stations
• 144km tunnels
(8% of the line) or
29% of costs
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Competitive travel times…
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Freight Rail Further Actions
• .Collection of Data across
supply chains
• A National Freight Plan
• A National Inland Terminal
Plan
• Pricing regimes resolved
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Rail into the future
• Freight on Rail
• More capacity in urban areas and on
national network
• Re-opening lines
• Intermodals
• High Speed Rail
• New technology
• Light rail