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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 ...
The Toll Group is an Australian freight company that operates a logistics and global freight forwarding network spanning 150 countries, with over 20,000 customers. Toll has more than 16,000 team members across 500 sites.
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.
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]
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]
Asciano specialised in bulk and container shipping and transportation, with port and train operations across Australia. It had over 8,000 employees. It was an ASX 50 company. [1] In June 2015, Brookfield Infrastructure Partners launched a takeover offer for the company, and Qube Holdings later made a counter offer.
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.