Pacific National – Not the Flavour of the Month
Pac Nat
- cut off from it’s Brisbane terminal on Tuesday when a north bound QR freighter derailed eight wagons and left the main northern line blocked till Friday morning. You can read the news story here
- and out of the grain haulage business in Victoria. Oh the joys of privatisation where railway companies don’t provide services for for businesses that are affected by the drought. You can read that news story here.
Victoria recently bought back the railway lines from Pacific National – will we see government run freight operations reappear in that State?
On a positive note for Pacific National – they are very close to finalising some coal haulage contracts in Queensland. Expect an announcement any day now – not that it will do much good in easing the coal export problems because the choke point seems to be the ports and not the railways – although that depends on just who is trying to cover the bum at the time.
December 21st, 2007 at 11:25 am
Enjoying the blog mate.
These decisions by PN are quite disgusting, but far from being unexpected.
Obviously a pack of money hungry wolvs like this were going to have little interest in community service type traffics. This was always expected since the day we allowed the railways to be sold to this sort of company.
Brad