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Allied Australia was established in 1926 as family-owned moving company named Downard Transport. In 1973 a joint venture was formed with Gascoyne Trading Company to enter the interstate freight forwarding market between Victoria and Western Australia. [3] In 1982, British-based Pickfords, bought the company to form Downard Pickfords. [2] [4] [5 ...
Grace Removals was established in 1911 when retailer Grace Bros established a furniture removal division in Sydney. [1] [2] In the mid-1960s it expanded to operate in all states in Australia. [3] [4] In 1984, Grace Removals was purchased by Brambles. [5] In 1994 it was sold to Jim Thompson, the founder and owner of the Crown Worldwide Group. [6 ...
In March 2002, the United Transport and Brambles Project Services businesses were sold to Patrick Corporation. [23] In October 2002, the railway leasing business was sold to VTG-Lehnkering. [24] [25] In November 2002 the Brambles Shipping business, including the ships Tasmanian Achiever and Victorian Reliance, was sold to Toll Holdings. [26] [27]
Toll provides end-to-end supply chain services for a range of industries including retail and consumer, grocery, healthcare, automotive, industrial, energy, government and defence. [26] A Toll fuel tanker. The company operates 500 plus warehouse facilities and a transportation fleet of more than 44,000 vehicles, vessels, plant and equipment. [1]
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.
TNT was founded by Ken Thomas in 1946 with one International truck as KW Thomas Transport, being renamed Thomas Nationwide Transport in 1958. [1] [2] [3] In January 1962 it was listed on the Sydney Stock Exchange. [4] [5] In 1967 it merged with Alltrans to form TNT-Alltrans with Peter Abeles becoming managing director. [5] [6] [7] In 1968 it ...
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ComfortDelGro Australia is a major Australian public transport company and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Singapore-listed company ComfortDelGro. Founded in October 2005 as ComfortDelGro Cabcharge , a joint venture between ComfortDelGro (51%) and Australian-listed Cabcharge (49%), it became fully owned by ComfortDelGro in 2017.