Transport & Logistics

The state opposition plans to shake up planning laws to support the development of community hubs across Perth, creating jobs close to where people live.

LandCorp has awarded Perth-based contractor Brierty an $11 million contract to build the first stage of its Broome Road Industrial Park in the Kimberley.

The state government has abandoned plans to cancel late night train services and offered free rides after it was revealed inaccurate information regarding usage had been provided by the Public Transport Authority.

Payment and transport business Cabcharge is searching for new income beyond taxis and considering a name change after a 13 per cent fall in half-year profit.

Shipbuilder Austal has reported a 208 per cent rise in profit to $28.9 million for the six months to December and declared its first dividend since 2011.

Western Australian taxi patrons who pay their fare with non-cash methods will no longer be slugged a surcharge of up to 11 per cent.

Fremantle-based MMA Offshore has announced a lift in interim revenue and profit, but its shares slumped today on a lower dividend and predictions of a weaker second half.

Shareholders in Toll Holdings are set for a windfall after Japan Post made a $6.5 billion takeover for the Australian transport and logistics firm.

Australia's largest rail freight hauler Aurizon is continuing to focus on boosting shareholder returns, with its latest profit bolstered by major cost-cutting measures and future spending on growth projects dependent on a recovery in commodity prices.

Rail freight business Pacific National has awarded engineering firm Downer a $1 billion contract to provide maintenance services to 300 of the Asciano subsidiary’s train fleet.

Construction contractor Georgiou, along with two Perth architecture firms, have been selected to work on the $57 million Aubin Grove train station ahead of a final construction tender later this year.

The $1 billion Gateway WA roads project is now 60 per cent finished, six months ahead of schedule, with final completion now projected by mid-2016.

The state government is planning to cap taxi payment fees at 5 per cent, which could cost the sector’s dominant player, Cabcharge, about $4 million a year.

A device targeted at the OH&S market is being taken up by mining, transport and storage industries to cut costs associated with workplace injuries.

People who use ride sharing taxi services are being warned to be cautious when booking private cars.

Shares in transport and warehousing company CTI Logistics have dropped nearly 10 per cent today after a substantial profit downgrade.

Illegal, unsafe, job killing, job creating, monopoly-busting, money saving - Uber may be the taxi industry's worst enemy but it's the adjective's best friend.

BHP Billiton’s plans to renew the lease on its fly-in, fly-out camp on the outskirts of Newman, rather than take up existing empty housing in the town, has prompted a chorus of dissent from Pilbara-focused property groups.

A single contractor has won a $66 million tender to book $2.1 billion worth of federal government travel over four years.

The state opposition claims the MAX Light Rail project is doomed, after a Parliamentary Estimates hearing was today told the government was considering constructing an underground rail line to service the same transport corridor.

Drivers in Western Australia may pay more for vehicle registration or drivers' licences to help the state government pay for transport improvements, the premier has confirmed.

Cabcharge is urging governments to act against ride sharing service Uber, labelling it "illegal and unsafe" and accusing it of tax avoidance.

CTI Logistics has bought 67,000 square metres of land adjacent to its Hazelmere warehousing and distribution centre, in a private deal believed to be worth just under $19 million.

Transport and logistics group Toll Holdings has announced that its marine logistics business will focus on the offshore LNG sector, after completing the sale of several operations in northern Australia and Asia.

The completion of a $65 million infrastructure upgrade at Fremantle harbour is designed to boost the amount of freight carried on rail, but the key players are coy on how much difference the recent investment will make.

A unique partnership is slowly transforming life on the open road.

Regional communities are putting pressure on the WA government and Brookfield Rail to re-open the third tier of the freight network.

Not long after Melbourne-based Blue Tongue was launched in 2001 its founder, Tully Young, recognised that Western Australia had a transport industry skills shortage – so he moved himself and almost half his business to Perth.

When the HMAS Toowoomba leaves Cockburn Sound on deployments as far away as the Middle East, maritime logistics officer Kelly Haywood is in charge of making sure the vessel has everything it needs to make the journey and accomplish the mission.

Our annual Transport and Logistics feature discusses the role of a maritime logistics officer, how a business caters to a skills shortage in the transport industry, the tier 3 rail lines, training for truck drivers in the Pilbara, and the recent completion of the Fremantle harbour rail upgrade.

Western Australia is leading the country when it comes to the cooperative and mutual business sector, with three local operations named amid the nation’s five largest.

Western Australia’s unfair and inefficient taxi industry has unnecessarily cost consumers hundreds of millions of dollars, according to a leading economist commissioned by motorist advocacy group R