* Victoria - Trucks trump tracks in Melbourne port traffic
--The Port of Melbourne's overwhelming dependence on trucks to move goods around the state has grown as new figures reveal the proportion of freight transported by rail has fallen to less than 10 per cent in 2014-15... A record almost 2.58 billion tonnes of container traffic moved through Melbourne's port in 2014-15, mostly on city roads as rail's share of container traffic fell from 12.7 per cent to 9.4 per cent... The government has been warned in a confidential report obtained by The Age that the worsening truck traffic could reach a point where it erodes the port's "social licence to operate"... A spokeswoman for Mr Donnellan said it was not the government, but port users that decided whether to move freight by road or rail...
(Photo: Craig Abraham - The Port of Melbourne relies on trucks to transport goods) -- Melbourne, VIC, Australia - The Age, by Adam Carey - December 7, 2015Labels: trucking industry news Australia
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