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Feb 7, 2012

TRAFFIC JAMS * Australia -(looking at the cities' future ?)-

* Sydney traffic worsens as freight forwarding climbs

Sydney,NSW,Australia -Supply Chain, by Sydney Kevin Scarpati -28 Nov 2011: -- Congested roads in Sydney are likely to get worse in the near future thanks to an increase in freight forwarding... Sydney (and Australia’s eastern seaboard as a whole) has a traffic problem thanks to some of the usual factors, including an inadequate public transportation network and road works projects. That situation will only get worse once freight starts moving through Port Botany, Sydney’s third container terminal... According to Sydney Ports, freight forwarding (or trucking) traffic is expected to increase by 70 percent over the next 10 years... What’s interesting about the rise in freight forwarding numbers is the current drop in intermodal rail. The number of containers that left Port Botany by rail dipped 20 percent in the 18 months leading up to June earlier this year... According to Sydney Ports, that ratio between rail freight and freight forwarding has shifted 14 percent thanks to the rise in trucking and the fall in intermodal rail...

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