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Cranky customers over choked supply chain

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2007
... grave" coal ship queues at Newcastle and Dalrymple Bay and will be attending an all-day briefing with coal mining and transport companies, before seeing the Premier and Treasurer. According to the managing director of Nippon Steel, NSW and Queensland ...

Economic round-up: Lead balloon lifts exports

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2007
... was $207 billion compared to just under $192 billion the previous year, equating to an 8.3 per cent increase. While transport bottlenecks and the dollar's rising value continue hitting some businesses hard, the increasing demand in volumes and higher ...

Economic round-up: Infrastructure - sink or swim?

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2007
... need to spend on infrastructure. "There is a serious backlog in infrastructure investment, in water, energy and land transport, estimated conservatively at $25 billion, which requires immediate attention, " CEDA said. The CSIRO, Bureau of Meteorology ...

Economic round-up: Economists weather forecast

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2007
... will be the driver of yet faster economic growth with ever increasing demand from Asia and record commodity prices. But transport backlogs and bottlenecks at some of the country's biggest shipping ports remain a risk to future business and a dead weight ...

Economic round-up: Circle your wagons

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2007
... infrastructure is beginning to hit the country's coffers where it hurts - in the mining sector. Hundreds of wagons once used to transport Queensland coal are lying idle throughout the state while earlier this week 51 ships were queued for a backlog of ...

Use super for national interests: Weaven

... need to accumulate investments across the full range of risk and return profiles." Among the sectors Weaven named were transport, logistics, power generation and telecommunications, all of which are currently under-invested according to the business ...

Starved infrastructure will bite into growth

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2007
... infrastructure to remain competitive. "There is a serious backlog in infrastructure investment, in water, energy and land transport, estimated conservatively at $25 billion, which requires immediate attention, " CEDA said. If someone doesn't get serious ...

Get outta town

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2007
... the big heave-ho. The APEC summit of world leaders, to be held from 7-9 September, is expected to cause traffic and transport chaos in the Sydney CBD, and the Government says it will be best for all concerned if Sydney-siders simply leave. While the ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2007
... the profits of Chinese exports has occurred in the smelting of ferrous metals as well as non-ferrous ones followed by transport equipment and raw chemical material production. The Australian Stock Market rallied yesterday with in excess of a 100 stocks ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2007
... railroad sector by billionaire Warren Buffett and strong jobs data offset worries about earnings and subprime loans. The transport sector rallied after Buffett acquired a stake in three railroad companies in a vote of confidence not only for railroads ...