Port Botany Rail Line tender awarded

Rhomberg Rail has been awarded a contract to construct stage 3 of the $75 million Port Botany Rail Line upgrade.

Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development, Warren Truss, said a record number of containers have been hauled through Port Botany by rail.

“Reducing the impact of freight traffic on motorists by developing cross-metropolitan, rail container shuttle services has been a focus of the Australian and New South Wales governments,” Truss said.

“Rhomberg Rail will deliver concrete re-sleepering and embankment upgrade works to the freight network between Sefton and Campsie in Sydney's west.”

The upgrade will bring the Botany Rail Line up to ARTC standards and is expected improve the connectivity within the broader Sydney Rail freight network.

Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Rail Track Corporation, John Fullerton, said the upgrade will help improve freight accessibility.

“In August 2015, a record number of containers were railed to and from Port Botany—over 30,000 Twenty Foot Equivalent Units,” Fullerton said.

“With the future freight task only growing, the opportunity for rail to pick up more transport work in New South Wales is compelling.”

The project is fully funded by the Australian government.

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