[200811.EN.SEA] HPH To Operate Inland Facility Near Botany Bay, Australia

Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) has been appointed as operator of the Enfield Intermodal Logistics Centre (ILC), which is located 18 km from Port Botany - where HPH also operates the new third container terminal.

According to Sydney Ports chairman Bryan Smith, the ILC would be a key element in a network of facilities across Sydney that will provide a more efficient means to transfer containers by train to and from Port Botany, and to allow the efficient repositioning by rail of empty containers for export from regional and rural New South Wales.

"The NSW government is focused on increasing the rail modal share to and from Port Botany. A network of intermodal centres of which Enfield is a major component, is crucial to achieving this goal," said Smith, adding that the new facility is expected to achieve up to 300,000 TEU of port-related throughput by rail once fully operational.

Sydney Ports estimates that the Enfield ILC will reduce truck movements to and from Port Botany by up to 300 movements per day, reducing road congestion and carbon emissions. Furthermore, the co-locating of pack/unpack warehouses on the site will also internalise more than 30,000 truck movements per year. The Enfield ILC will cut CO2 emissions by 1,000 tonnes per year and will also reduce the number of kilometres travelled by truck by 6.5 million km.

Source : EFT, 05.08.11.