The Port of Melbourne warns that logistics firms will start to build infrastructure haphazardly around the city without certainty on the new terminal location. | pwhatch
The Port of Melbourne says a decision on where to build Victoria’s new intermodal freight terminal needs to be made urgently, warning that logistics firms will start to build infrastructure haphazardly around the city without certainty on the issue.
“Regardless of what the political debate has been up until now, industry just needs a decision made so we can start planing for and investing in it.”Anderson said Australia’s busiest container port wanted the Truganina site – the Western Interstate Freight Terminal – built first because it was where most freight was moving through.
“One way or another that certainty is required to get it done,” Searle said. “We keep talking about it. The important part is that discussion needs to turn into ... an actual outcome.” An Andrews government spokeswoman said the state had committed $6.1 million in its recent budget to plan for its preferred Truganina option, and would “work with the Commonwealth to deliver this”.
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