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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 ...
Following a threat by Brambles to withdraw the loss-making Manly ferry service, the Public Transport Commission took over the service in December 1974. [7] In 1975, Brambles formed an 80:20 joint venture with UK company Guest Keen & Nettlefold (GKN) to bring CHEP to the United Kingdom. [2] [8] In July 1984, Grace Removals was purchased. [9]
In 2023, Toll acquired a business in Australia, ASQ, an operator of uncrewed aircraft systems (drone), and became the majority shareholder in its joint venture in Dubai, CWT-SML. [ 21 ] Today, Toll has dual headquarters in Melbourne and Singapore, with contract logistics operations across the Asia Pacific and a global freight forwarding business.
CRT Group is an intermodal transport company in Australia. It was founded in 1954 as Colin Rees Transport, [1] a taxi truck company in Sydney.In 1981 it became known as the CRT Group, [2] and by the time of its acquisition by QR National in June 2005, was in the top 10 logistics companies in Australia with a turnover of $80 million, and moving over 600,000 tonnes of freight a year. [3]
The Hydro Deck is a barge that was launched in 2014 by AG&P ALE Ventures. The system is designed to enable the load-in and load-out of heavy cargo in areas where tidal variations can cause significant delays to projects. [18] Hydro Deck was first used on the Ichtys LNG Project in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.
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.
The environmental impact of transport in Australia is considerable. In 2009, transport emissions made up 15.3% of Australia's total greenhouse gas emissions. Between 1990 and 2009, transport emissions grew by 34.6%, the second-highest growth rate in emissions after stationary energy. [32]