HOME ABOUT US ADVERTISE SUBSCRIBE SITEMAP HELP CONTACT WORK FOR US   Tuesday 7 September 2010 Make SCLN my HomePage    GENERAL STORIES [ 2139 Results - Showing Results 1 to 30 ] Oil breaks through $US50 mark (Friday, 20 March 2009) OIL closed above $US50 a barrel last night for the first time this year after the US Federal Reserve announced a new plan to fight the recession and a weak greenback boosted the appeal of commodities to investors. Full Story... Researchers looking to build algae-to-diesel test facility (Tuesday, 10 March 2009) RESEARCHERS at Murdoch University in Western Australia are planning to build a test biodiesel facility in the Pilbara that could lead to a $100 million plant to meet the region’s fuel needs. Full Story... Cyclone Hamish misses coal supply chain (Tuesday, 10 March 2009) RAILWAY and port operations linked to Queensland's coal supply chain are starting to resume operations as Cyclone Hamish passes 300 kilometres east of the Port of Gladstone and continues offshore in a southeasterly direction. Full Story... Qantas sees drop off in international passenger figures (Friday, 6 March 2009) THE economic downturn continues to hit Qantas hard with the airline suffering an 11.4% decrease in the number of passengers carried on international flights in January in comparison to the same month in 2008. Full Story... Infrastructure investment a priority: QTA (Friday, 6 March 2009) IN THE lead-up to the Queensland state government election, the Queensland Trucking Association has called on opposing political parties to continue prioritising infrastructure investment, regardless of which party is elected into office. Full Story... WA shipbuilder opens Vietnamese facility (Friday, 6 March 2009) WESTERN Australian shipbuilder Strategic Marine Company has opened a new $25 million shipyard in the southern coastal province of Ba Ria Vung Tau in Vietnam as part of the country’s Shipbuilding Industry Development Program. Full Story... MURPHY’S LORE: Grain transport needs a rethink (Friday, 6 March 2009) GRAIN ships wait at anchor off Western Australia as 600 road-train loads battle 120 rail-wagon loads of canola to unload on a ship at Port Lincoln, while Pacific National threatens to withdraw from grain cartage in two states. It seems the stakes are particularly high for the future of grain rail. Full Story... UNDER CONSTRUCTION: Time for heavyweights to pay their way (Friday, 6 March 2009) PROGRESS has undoubtedly been made in improving the quality of many of Australia’s major arterial roads, but what about the urban blacktop? Well, noises are being made that it is now their turn for some long overdue refurbishment. Full Story... New vehicle market struggles as sales plummet (Friday, 6 March 2009) THE Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI) has released figures this week that show an almost 22% drop on new motor-vehicle sales in Australia for the month of February. Full Story... Oil swings like a yo-yo (Friday, 6 March 2009) OIL prices slumped around 4% last night as more sour economic news heightened worries that energy demand would continue to drop. Full Story... Thailand, Laos open first rail link (Friday, 6 March 2009) THE first-ever rail link connecting Thailand and Laos has been officially opened after 20 months of construction at a cost of approximately 197 million baht ($A8.5 million). Full Story... SSI Schaefer captures Salomon Automation (Wednesday, 4 March 2009) SCHAEFER Systems International has confirmed its acquisition of Europe-based Salomon Automation, a provider of tailored complete solutions for all types of logistics systems – manual or fully automated. Full Story... Emirates pre-eminent forwarder, Qantas catapults into top ten: cargo survey (Wednesday, 4 March 2009) AIR Cargo World’s 2009 Air Cargo Excellence (ACE) 2009 survey has revealed Emirates Sky Cargo as the most impressive freight forwarder, toppling Lufthansa off its number one perch, while Qantas Cargo has vaulted into the top ten. Full Story... KiwiRail to spend big on new trains (Wednesday, 4 March 2009) KIWIRAIL has been given the go ahead by the New Zealand government to spend $NZ115 million ($A89.9 million) on new trains, the first significant service upgrade in 20 years. Full Story... Vic transporter hit with court order (Wednesday, 4 March 2009) VICTORIAN transporter Annfield, which trades as Fred’s Interstate Transport, has been ordered to improve its practices after a New South Wales court found the company guilty of 29 overloading offences. Full Story... Qantas A380s too big for LAX (Wednesday, 4 March 2009) AIR traffic controllers from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) have told Qantas that the new Airbus A380 aircraft are too big for the facility and may be turned away. Full Story... Cairns Airport readies bar-code boarding system (Wednesday, 4 March 2009) CAIRNS Airport is set to become the first Australian airport to fully operate a terminal with bar-coded boarding passes (BCBP), replacing the previously used magnetic-strip boarding passes. Full Story... Lewis hits out at plans to monitor truckies (Wednesday, 4 March 2009) THE New South Wales Road and Traffic Authority’s plan to implement point-to-point speed cameras to monitor truck drivers has been condemned by the state’s Australian Trucking Association manager Jill Lewis. Full Story... South Australia to get 13 truck rest areas (Wednesday, 4 March 2009) THE Australian Trucking Association (ATA) has welcomed news that the Australian and South Australian governments will fund 13 truck rest areas between Adelaide and Port Augusta. Full Story... Downer EDI: NSW train deal 5 months behind schedule (Monday, 2 March 2009) INFRASTRUCTURE and engineering company Downer EDI has confirmed that New South Wales’s biggest-ever private sector deal to deliver 626 new carriages for Sydney is running five months late. Full Story... Trucking convention set for Gold Coast (Monday, 2 March 2009) THE 2009 Australian Trucking Convention will be held on the Gold Coast from April 21-24 and will feature one of the country’s best known economists, Chris Richardson. Full Story... Romanian aircraft in successful emergency landing (Monday, 2 March 2009) A PLANE operated by Romanian airline Carpat Air has made a successful emergency landing after its landing gear jammed en route to Timisoara Airport from the Moldovan capital Chisinau. Full Story... Daimler creates 1100 jobs in Mexico (Monday, 2 March 2009) TRUCK manufacturer Daimler AG has opened a new $US274 million ($A431.5 million) plant in Mexico, generating up to 1100 jobs in the process. Full Story... Kuala Lumpur, London to get new cargo service (Monday, 2 March 2009) LONG-haul budget airline AirAsia X will start operating a new direct cargo service between its Malaysian hub Kuala Lumpur and London, from March 11, 2009. Full Story... GFC being used to legitimise job cuts: ACTU (Monday, 2 March 2009) THE Australian Council of Trade Unions has slammed big business for using the global financial crisis as a ruse for unnecessary job cuts, referring to Lend Lease’s plans to axe 1700 employees globally as just one example. Full Story... Aspermont holds its core strength (Monday, 2 March 2009) AUSTRALIA-based international trade publisher Aspermont has achieved a 66% revenue increase in its core print, online and conference media businesses in the face of worsening economic conditions during the December 2008 half year. Full Story... V touches down in Los Angeles (Monday, 2 March 2009) V AUSTRALIA’S Boeing 777-300ER has made its maiden voyage from Sydney to Los Angeles, with the airline’s first commercial service departing Sydney Airport at 3pm on Friday. Full Story... Recruitment game changing (Friday, 27 February 2009) ECONOMIC forecasters may well be down in the mouth about the outlook for the rest of the year, but with more job seekers entering the market, for recruitment companies it seems to be a case of all hands on deck. Alex Forrest reports. Full Story... Is it all gloom? (Friday, 27 February 2009) THERE was some welcome relief yesterday when the Australian Bureau of Statistics released figures showing the construction industry had actually experienced some growth, but will any of this positivity transfer to other industries, like say, transport? Alex Forrest reports Full Story... BHP rail back up after death (Friday, 27 February 2009) BHP Billiton has reopened its Pilbara rail line after Tuesday’s death of a maintenance worker on the track forced the company to suspend operations. Full Story... Prev    Next   Company Search Story Search Advanced Search Disclaimer | © Copyright Aspermont Ltd | Privacy Policy | Terms and Conditions