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SCT Logistics was founded in 1974 as Specialised Container Transport. [1] [2] In the mid-1990s, National Rail decided to discontinue the use of refrigerated vans, louvred vans, and boxcars on its trains. At the same time, Australia's rail network was being opened up to enable private operators the use of publicly owned railway track.
This is a list of the 30 largest container shipping companies as of February 2024, according to Alphaliner, ranked in order of the twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) capacity of their fleet. [1] In January 2022, MSC overtook Maersk for the container line with the largest shipping capacity for the first time since 1996. [ 2 ]
Container and roll-on/roll-off: 1970 [16] November 1984-Scrapped 1984 Darwin Trader: Container and bulk carrier: 1970: 1998-Still in service Echuca: Container: 1971: July 1976: Sold to Wan Hai Steamship Co: Still in service Allunga: Container and roll-on/roll-off: 1971: 1986-Scrapped 1986 Mount Newman: Bulk carrier: 1973 (chartered) 1981 ...
NR16 hauling The Overland at North Shore, November 2008. In February 2002, National Rail's freight operations and rollingstock, jointly owned by the Federal, New South Wales and Victorian Governments, were combined with FreightCorp, owned by the New South Wales Government, [1] and sold to a joint venture between Patrick Corporation and Toll Holdings, trading as Pacific National.
Patrick Corporation container crane at Port Botany. Patrick Steamship Co was founded in 1919 by James Patrick. It operated a shipping service with the SS Timaru out of Sydney along the East Coast of Australia. By 1925 it was operating as both a shipping line and stevedore, gradually expanding interstate. [1]
Toll Holdings Pty Limited (also referred to as Toll Group) is an Australian registered company, 100% owned by Japan Post Co., Ltd, which is 100% owned by Japan Post Holdings Co., Ltd which is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. [2]
Gemco Rail is a Western Australian company specialising in the remanufacturing and repair of railway locomotives, wagons, track maintenance equipment, bearings and other railway components. [1] Formed in 1987 [2] it is based in Forrestfield, Perth. [3] In July 2007 Gemco Rail was purchased by Coote Industrial. [4]
This is a list of container ships with a capacity larger than 20,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU). Container ships have been built in increasingly larger sizes to take advantage of economies of scale and reduce expense as part of intermodal freight transport. Container ships are also subject to certain limitations in size. Primarily ...