August
McGrathNicol steps up insolvent trading probe at Scott’s Logistics
A new report shows a major creditor has agreed to stump up funding to allow liquidators to “pursue further investigations”.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
- Exclusive
- Industrial relations
Amazon Flex and ‘last mile’ couriers lined up for pay claims
Amazon’s delivery service will be among the first firms to be targeted under Labor’s new laws for minimum standards in the road transport industry.
- David Marin-Guzman
July
- Logistics Winner
- Sustainability Leaders
Transport needs to avoid becoming the nation’s biggest emitter
Without dramatic changes, this may be the last industry to decarbonise. Aurizon, the winner of the Logistics and Transport category, aims to change that with its electric locomotive.
- Agnes King
June
Team Global Express signs $190m debt deal
The private equity-backed logistics company has refinanced debt with Commonwealth Bank, the Clean Energy Finance Corporation and IFM Investors.
- Aaron Weinman
May
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Why a rubbish collector is the ASX’s most vulnerable big company
Cleanaway Waste Management needs investors to buy into its growth story, and soon, because while earnings forecasts are rising, the share price isn’t. That makes it vulnerable to a takeover.
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- Anthony Macdonald
Transport costs up 10 per cent nationwide as petrol stokes inflation
The rising cost of diesel in the past three years has put a dent in Jesse Bradley’s removalist business based in Queensland.
- Gus McCubbing
April
Linfox has been ‘let down’ by fragile rail networks
Some of the logistic group’s customers now refuse to put goods on trains due to severe disruption from floods, bushfires and derailments, says chief executive Mark Mazurek.
- Jenny Wiggins
February
- Exclusive
- Roads
States to be forced to give up secret road crash data
Amid growing alarm over the rising road toll, pressure from Senator David Pocock is set to link $50 billion in federal road funding to state crash data transparency.
- Jacob Greber
January
Fortescue, Woodside hydrogen hopes in doubt after US rule change
Billions of dollars of hydrogen projects by Australian companies including Woodside and Fortescue may be in doubt after the US proposed rule changes that could exclude them from its Inflation Reduction Act cash.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
December 2023
FedEx profit falls below expectations on drop in air and truck cargo
FedEx said that this year’s peak holiday volume was similar to last year’s and expects share buybacks of $US1 billion in the last two quarters.
- Thomas Black
One last ‘blowout’ at Christmas then hard times on way
The CEO of Linfox, the transport giant owned by Rich Lister Lindsay Fox, is bracing for a downturn in the economy in February and March.
- Simon Evans
November 2023
No mercy: union doubles down on port strikes until end of month
Ports will face weeks of further disruption as wharfies extend stoppages and work bans against DP World, as the stevedore recovers from last week’s cyberattack.
- David Marin-Guzman
DP World hack strands 30,000 shipping containers
Tens of thousands of shipping containers stuffed with consumer goods were trapped at ports around the country after a cyberattack on stevedore DP World Australia.
- Jenny Wiggins, Nick Bonyhady, Ronald Mizen and Euan Black
Why goods meant for Sydney are ending up elsewhere
Ships loaded with goods are skipping ports where they might be hit by a long-running wharf dispute and dropping them off somewhere else.
- David Marin-Guzman
October 2023
Getting to net-zero for heavy vehicles will be tough
While batteries may be best for passenger cars, heavy trucks will need hydrogen power to replace diesel and petrol.
- Tony Davis
Consumers to bear cost of minimum rates for truckies
Truck driver Robert Ireland turned to drugs and once stayed awake for 13 days to try to make a living. The industry has reached rare unity in support of new laws to set minimum conditions for drivers, though consumers may end up paying more.
- David Marin-Guzman
Labor accused of handing unprecedented power to transport union
The Minerals Council claims new laws aimed at improving safety in the road transport industry go well beyond what is suggested and could allow the TWU to influence conditions up and down supply chains.
- Ronald Mizen
September 2023
‘Basically working for nothing’: Truckies crushed by fuel price surge
Veteran Sydney truck driver Frank Black says many operators are struggling to meet the costs of surging fuel prices.
- Tom Rabe
KKR-backed Zenobe primed for Australian big battery push
The UK-based energy storage player will also expand its electric bus fleet here after raising $1.7 billion from investors.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
Minister gets broad powers to set conditions in truckie supply chain
The Albanese government will resurrect a federal system to set minimum pay for owner-drivers, claiming its opponents now support it.
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- David Marin-Guzman