❓ The Minister outlines progress in increasing rail freight to Fremantle Port, highlighting a significant increase in container transport by rail since 2002 and the resulting reduction in truck traffic. The Minister also defends the government's approach to freight management compared to the previous administration.
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FREMANTLE PORT — FREIGHT MANAGEMENT
Part of Labor’s six-point plan within the freight network reform program is designed to manage the movement of traffic into the Fremantle port and increase the use of rail. Will the minister advise the house of the progress that has been made in increasing the number of containers moved by rail freight into the port? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN
Part of Labor’s six-point plan within the freight network reform program is designed to manage the movement of traffic into the Fremantle port and increase the use of rail. Will the minister advise the house of the progress that has been made in increasing the number of containers moved by rail freight into the port? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN
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I thank the member for the question. Of course, the member has been a key party to the Freight Network Review and is making it work through his very excellent chairmanship of the Local Impacts Committee, which has caused great improvements to local roads in his electorate. An opposition member interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I thought that the member might want to hear an update on the six-point plan. We developed a strategy in 2002 to develop a six-point plan that would enable us to manage freight more efficiently through the metropolitan area. That is unlike the previous government, which drew a line on a plan and somehow or other thought that drawing a line on a plan, rather than actually building any roads, would do something. We put in place very practical mechanisms to ensure that we could manage freight through the metropolitan area. One of the key strategies was getting containers back onto rail. When we came into government, the percentage of containers was slightly over two per cent. I will give members the very good news. In 2002, 7 000 containers, or 20-foot equivalent units, came into the port by rail. Working on figures to date, we estimate that this year that figure will be 84 000. We have increased the percentage on rail by more than 1 000 per cent. In the space of five years that is a very good result. It brings the percentage of containers on rail to about 14.5 per cent. Next year we expect an increase to around 100 000 containers. The estimated 84 000 containers will effectively take 65 000 trucks per annum off those roads feeding into the port. There is no doubt that the community, environmental and economic benefits associated with removing this number of trucks off those roads is estimated to be worth around $2 million, which is the cost of the subsidy that we are paying to build up these figures. We have shown that our six-point plan can work. It will always be a challenge to have a sustainable freight network. In this day and age, with the increased cost of fuel and carbon pricing coming into play, we have to be more creative. We cannot simply keep mowing down suburbs and building more roads. We have to continue to take the measures such that we have taken. As I said, an increase in the number of containers coming into the port of Fremantle of more than 1 000 per cent in five years is a pretty good outcome.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for the question. Of course, the member has been a key party to the Freight Network Review and is making it work through his very excellent chairmanship of the Local Impacts Committee, which has caused great improvements to local roads in his electorate. An opposition member interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I thought that the member might want to hear an update on the six-point plan. We developed a strategy in 2002 to develop a six-point plan that would enable us to manage freight more efficiently through the metropolitan area. That is unlike the previous government, which drew a line on a plan and somehow or other thought that drawing a line on a plan, rather than actually building any roads, would do something. We put in place very practical mechanisms to ensure that we could manage freight through the metropolitan area. One of the key strategies was getting containers back onto rail. When we came into government, the percentage of containers was slightly over two per cent. I will give members the very good news. In 2002, 7 000 containers, or 20-foot equivalent units, came into the port by rail. Working on figures to date, we estimate that this year that figure will be 84 000. We have increased the percentage on rail by more than 1 000 per cent. In the space of five years that is a very good result. It brings the percentage of containers on rail to about 14.5 per cent. Next year we expect an increase to around 100 000 containers. The estimated 84 000 containers will effectively take 65 000 trucks per annum off those roads feeding into the port. There is no doubt that the community, environmental and economic benefits associated with removing this number of trucks off those roads is estimated to be worth around $2 million, which is the cost of the subsidy that we are paying to build up these figures. We have shown that our six-point plan can work. It will always be a challenge to have a sustainable freight network. In this day and age, with the increased cost of fuel and carbon pricing coming into play, we have to be more creative. We cannot simply keep mowing down suburbs and building more roads. We have to continue to take the measures such that we have taken. As I said, an increase in the number of containers coming into the port of Fremantle of more than 1 000 per cent in five years is a pretty good outcome.
I thank the member for the question. Of course, the member has been a key party to the Freight Network Review and is making it work through his very excellent chairmanship of the Local Impacts Committee, which has caused great improvements to local roads in his electorate. An opposition member interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I thought that the member might want to hear an update on the six-point plan. We developed a strategy in 2002 to develop a six-point plan that would enable us to manage freight more efficiently through the metropolitan area. That is unlike the previous government, which drew a line on a plan and somehow or other thought that drawing a line on a plan, rather than actually building any roads, would do something. We put in place very practical mechanisms to ensure that we could manage freight through the metropolitan area. One of the key strategies was getting containers back onto rail. When we came into government, the percentage of containers was slightly over two per cent. I will give members the very good news. In 2002, 7 000 containers, or 20-foot equivalent units, came into the port by rail. Working on figures to date, we estimate that this year that figure will be 84 000. We have increased the percentage on rail by more than 1 000 per cent. In the space of five years that is a very good result. It brings the percentage of containers on rail to about 14.5 per cent. Next year we expect an increase to around 100 000 containers. The estimated 84 000 containers will effectively take 65 000 trucks per annum off those roads feeding into the port. There is no doubt that the community, environmental and economic benefits associated with removing this number of trucks off those roads is estimated to be worth around $2 million, which is the cost of the subsidy that we are paying to build up these figures. We have shown that our six-point plan can work. It will always be a challenge to have a sustainable freight network. In this day and age, with the increased cost of fuel and carbon pricing coming into play, we have to be more creative. We cannot simply keep mowing down suburbs and building more roads. We have to continue to take the measures such that we have taken. As I said, an increase in the number of containers coming into the port of Fremantle of more than 1 000 per cent in five years is a pretty good outcome.
An opposition member interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I thought that the member might want to hear an update on the six-point plan. We developed a strategy in 2002 to develop a six-point plan that would enable us to manage freight more efficiently through the metropolitan area. That is unlike the previous government, which drew a line on a plan and somehow or other thought that drawing a line on a plan, rather than actually building any roads, would do something. We put in place very practical mechanisms to ensure that we could manage freight through the metropolitan area. One of the key strategies was getting containers back onto rail. When we came into government, the percentage of containers was slightly over two per cent. I will give members the very good news. In 2002, 7 000 containers, or 20-foot equivalent units, came into the port by rail. Working on figures to date, we estimate that this year that figure will be 84 000. We have increased the percentage on rail by more than 1 000 per cent. In the space of five years that is a very good result. It brings the percentage of containers on rail to about 14.5 per cent. Next year we expect an increase to around 100 000 containers. The estimated 84 000 containers will effectively take 65 000 trucks per annum off those roads feeding into the port. There is no doubt that the community, environmental and economic benefits associated with removing this number of trucks off those roads is estimated to be worth around $2 million, which is the cost of the subsidy that we are paying to build up these figures. We have shown that our six-point plan can work. It will always be a challenge to have a sustainable freight network. In this day and age, with the increased cost of fuel and carbon pricing coming into play, we have to be more creative. We cannot simply keep mowing down suburbs and building more roads. We have to continue to take the measures such that we have taken. As I said, an increase in the number of containers coming into the port of Fremantle of more than 1 000 per cent in five years is a pretty good outcome.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I thought that the member might want to hear an update on the six-point plan. We developed a strategy in 2002 to develop a six-point plan that would enable us to manage freight more efficiently through the metropolitan area. That is unlike the previous government, which drew a line on a plan and somehow or other thought that drawing a line on a plan, rather than actually building any roads, would do something. We put in place very practical mechanisms to ensure that we could manage freight through the metropolitan area. One of the key strategies was getting containers back onto rail. When we came into government, the percentage of containers was slightly over two per cent. I will give members the very good news. In 2002, 7 000 containers, or 20-foot equivalent units, came into the port by rail. Working on figures to date, we estimate that this year that figure will be 84 000. We have increased the percentage on rail by more than 1 000 per cent. In the space of five years that is a very good result. It brings the percentage of containers on rail to about 14.5 per cent. Next year we expect an increase to around 100 000 containers. The estimated 84 000 containers will effectively take 65 000 trucks per annum off those roads feeding into the port. There is no doubt that the community, environmental and economic benefits associated with removing this number of trucks off those roads is estimated to be worth around $2 million, which is the cost of the subsidy that we are paying to build up these figures. We have shown that our six-point plan can work. It will always be a challenge to have a sustainable freight network. In this day and age, with the increased cost of fuel and carbon pricing coming into play, we have to be more creative. We cannot simply keep mowing down suburbs and building more roads. We have to continue to take the measures such that we have taken. As I said, an increase in the number of containers coming into the port of Fremantle of more than 1 000 per cent in five years is a pretty good outcome.
We developed a strategy in 2002 to develop a six-point plan that would enable us to manage freight more efficiently through the metropolitan area. That is unlike the previous government, which drew a line on a plan and somehow or other thought that drawing a line on a plan, rather than actually building any roads, would do something. We put in place very practical mechanisms to ensure that we could manage freight through the metropolitan area. One of the key strategies was getting containers back onto rail. When we came into government, the percentage of containers was slightly over two per cent. I will give members the very good news. In 2002, 7 000 containers, or 20-foot equivalent units, came into the port by rail. Working on figures to date, we estimate that this year that figure will be 84 000. We have increased the percentage on rail by more than 1 000 per cent. In the space of five years that is a very good result. It brings the percentage of containers on rail to about 14.5 per cent. Next year we expect an increase to around 100 000 containers. The estimated 84 000 containers will effectively take 65 000 trucks per annum off those roads feeding into the port. There is no doubt that the community, environmental and economic benefits associated with removing this number of trucks off those roads is estimated to be worth around $2 million, which is the cost of the subsidy that we are paying to build up these figures. We have shown that our six-point plan can work. It will always be a challenge to have a sustainable freight network. In this day and age, with the increased cost of fuel and carbon pricing coming into play, we have to be more creative. We cannot simply keep mowing down suburbs and building more roads. We have to continue to take the measures such that we have taken. As I said, an increase in the number of containers coming into the port of Fremantle of more than 1 000 per cent in five years is a pretty good outcome.
I will give members the very good news. In 2002, 7 000 containers, or 20-foot equivalent units, came into the port by rail. Working on figures to date, we estimate that this year that figure will be 84 000. We have increased the percentage on rail by more than 1 000 per cent. In the space of five years that is a very good result. It brings the percentage of containers on rail to about 14.5 per cent. Next year we expect an increase to around 100 000 containers. The estimated 84 000 containers will effectively take 65 000 trucks per annum off those roads feeding into the port. There is no doubt that the community, environmental and economic benefits associated with removing this number of trucks off those roads is estimated to be worth around $2 million, which is the cost of the subsidy that we are paying to build up these figures. We have shown that our six-point plan can work. It will always be a challenge to have a sustainable freight network. In this day and age, with the increased cost of fuel and carbon pricing coming into play, we have to be more creative. We cannot simply keep mowing down suburbs and building more roads. We have to continue to take the measures such that we have taken. As I said, an increase in the number of containers coming into the port of Fremantle of more than 1 000 per cent in five years is a pretty good outcome.
We have shown that our six-point plan can work. It will always be a challenge to have a sustainable freight network. In this day and age, with the increased cost of fuel and carbon pricing coming into play, we have to be more creative. We cannot simply keep mowing down suburbs and building more roads. We have to continue to take the measures such that we have taken. As I said, an increase in the number of containers coming into the port of Fremantle of more than 1 000 per cent in five years is a pretty good outcome.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for the question. Of course, the member has been a key party to the Freight Network Review and is making it work through his very excellent chairmanship of the Local Impacts Committee, which has caused great improvements to local roads in his electorate. An opposition member interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I thought that the member might want to hear an update on the six-point plan. We developed a strategy in 2002 to develop a six-point plan that would enable us to manage freight more efficiently through the metropolitan area. That is unlike the previous government, which drew a line on a plan and somehow or other thought that drawing a line on a plan, rather than actually building any roads, would do something. We put in place very practical mechanisms to ensure that we could manage freight through the metropolitan area. One of the key strategies was getting containers back onto rail. When we came into government, the percentage of containers was slightly over two per cent. I will give members the very good news. In 2002, 7 000 containers, or 20-foot equivalent units, came into the port by rail. Working on figures to date, we estimate that this year that figure will be 84 000. We have increased the percentage on rail by more than 1 000 per cent. In the space of five years that is a very good result. It brings the percentage of containers on rail to about 14.5 per cent. Next year we expect an increase to around 100 000 containers. The estimated 84 000 containers will effectively take 65 000 trucks per annum off those roads feeding into the port. There is no doubt that the community, environmental and economic benefits associated with removing this number of trucks off those roads is estimated to be worth around $2 million, which is the cost of the subsidy that we are paying to build up these figures. We have shown that our six-point plan can work. It will always be a challenge to have a sustainable freight network. In this day and age, with the increased cost of fuel and carbon pricing coming into play, we have to be more creative. We cannot simply keep mowing down suburbs and building more roads. We have to continue to take the measures such that we have taken. As I said, an increase in the number of containers coming into the port of Fremantle of more than 1 000 per cent in five years is a pretty good outcome.
I thank the member for the question. Of course, the member has been a key party to the Freight Network Review and is making it work through his very excellent chairmanship of the Local Impacts Committee, which has caused great improvements to local roads in his electorate. An opposition member interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I thought that the member might want to hear an update on the six-point plan. We developed a strategy in 2002 to develop a six-point plan that would enable us to manage freight more efficiently through the metropolitan area. That is unlike the previous government, which drew a line on a plan and somehow or other thought that drawing a line on a plan, rather than actually building any roads, would do something. We put in place very practical mechanisms to ensure that we could manage freight through the metropolitan area. One of the key strategies was getting containers back onto rail. When we came into government, the percentage of containers was slightly over two per cent. I will give members the very good news. In 2002, 7 000 containers, or 20-foot equivalent units, came into the port by rail. Working on figures to date, we estimate that this year that figure will be 84 000. We have increased the percentage on rail by more than 1 000 per cent. In the space of five years that is a very good result. It brings the percentage of containers on rail to about 14.5 per cent. Next year we expect an increase to around 100 000 containers. The estimated 84 000 containers will effectively take 65 000 trucks per annum off those roads feeding into the port. There is no doubt that the community, environmental and economic benefits associated with removing this number of trucks off those roads is estimated to be worth around $2 million, which is the cost of the subsidy that we are paying to build up these figures. We have shown that our six-point plan can work. It will always be a challenge to have a sustainable freight network. In this day and age, with the increased cost of fuel and carbon pricing coming into play, we have to be more creative. We cannot simply keep mowing down suburbs and building more roads. We have to continue to take the measures such that we have taken. As I said, an increase in the number of containers coming into the port of Fremantle of more than 1 000 per cent in five years is a pretty good outcome.
An opposition member interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I thought that the member might want to hear an update on the six-point plan. We developed a strategy in 2002 to develop a six-point plan that would enable us to manage freight more efficiently through the metropolitan area. That is unlike the previous government, which drew a line on a plan and somehow or other thought that drawing a line on a plan, rather than actually building any roads, would do something. We put in place very practical mechanisms to ensure that we could manage freight through the metropolitan area. One of the key strategies was getting containers back onto rail. When we came into government, the percentage of containers was slightly over two per cent. I will give members the very good news. In 2002, 7 000 containers, or 20-foot equivalent units, came into the port by rail. Working on figures to date, we estimate that this year that figure will be 84 000. We have increased the percentage on rail by more than 1 000 per cent. In the space of five years that is a very good result. It brings the percentage of containers on rail to about 14.5 per cent. Next year we expect an increase to around 100 000 containers. The estimated 84 000 containers will effectively take 65 000 trucks per annum off those roads feeding into the port. There is no doubt that the community, environmental and economic benefits associated with removing this number of trucks off those roads is estimated to be worth around $2 million, which is the cost of the subsidy that we are paying to build up these figures. We have shown that our six-point plan can work. It will always be a challenge to have a sustainable freight network. In this day and age, with the increased cost of fuel and carbon pricing coming into play, we have to be more creative. We cannot simply keep mowing down suburbs and building more roads. We have to continue to take the measures such that we have taken. As I said, an increase in the number of containers coming into the port of Fremantle of more than 1 000 per cent in five years is a pretty good outcome.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : I thought that the member might want to hear an update on the six-point plan. We developed a strategy in 2002 to develop a six-point plan that would enable us to manage freight more efficiently through the metropolitan area. That is unlike the previous government, which drew a line on a plan and somehow or other thought that drawing a line on a plan, rather than actually building any roads, would do something. We put in place very practical mechanisms to ensure that we could manage freight through the metropolitan area. One of the key strategies was getting containers back onto rail. When we came into government, the percentage of containers was slightly over two per cent. I will give members the very good news. In 2002, 7 000 containers, or 20-foot equivalent units, came into the port by rail. Working on figures to date, we estimate that this year that figure will be 84 000. We have increased the percentage on rail by more than 1 000 per cent. In the space of five years that is a very good result. It brings the percentage of containers on rail to about 14.5 per cent. Next year we expect an increase to around 100 000 containers. The estimated 84 000 containers will effectively take 65 000 trucks per annum off those roads feeding into the port. There is no doubt that the community, environmental and economic benefits associated with removing this number of trucks off those roads is estimated to be worth around $2 million, which is the cost of the subsidy that we are paying to build up these figures. We have shown that our six-point plan can work. It will always be a challenge to have a sustainable freight network. In this day and age, with the increased cost of fuel and carbon pricing coming into play, we have to be more creative. We cannot simply keep mowing down suburbs and building more roads. We have to continue to take the measures such that we have taken. As I said, an increase in the number of containers coming into the port of Fremantle of more than 1 000 per cent in five years is a pretty good outcome.
We developed a strategy in 2002 to develop a six-point plan that would enable us to manage freight more efficiently through the metropolitan area. That is unlike the previous government, which drew a line on a plan and somehow or other thought that drawing a line on a plan, rather than actually building any roads, would do something. We put in place very practical mechanisms to ensure that we could manage freight through the metropolitan area. One of the key strategies was getting containers back onto rail. When we came into government, the percentage of containers was slightly over two per cent. I will give members the very good news. In 2002, 7 000 containers, or 20-foot equivalent units, came into the port by rail. Working on figures to date, we estimate that this year that figure will be 84 000. We have increased the percentage on rail by more than 1 000 per cent. In the space of five years that is a very good result. It brings the percentage of containers on rail to about 14.5 per cent. Next year we expect an increase to around 100 000 containers. The estimated 84 000 containers will effectively take 65 000 trucks per annum off those roads feeding into the port. There is no doubt that the community, environmental and economic benefits associated with removing this number of trucks off those roads is estimated to be worth around $2 million, which is the cost of the subsidy that we are paying to build up these figures. We have shown that our six-point plan can work. It will always be a challenge to have a sustainable freight network. In this day and age, with the increased cost of fuel and carbon pricing coming into play, we have to be more creative. We cannot simply keep mowing down suburbs and building more roads. We have to continue to take the measures such that we have taken. As I said, an increase in the number of containers coming into the port of Fremantle of more than 1 000 per cent in five years is a pretty good outcome.
I will give members the very good news. In 2002, 7 000 containers, or 20-foot equivalent units, came into the port by rail. Working on figures to date, we estimate that this year that figure will be 84 000. We have increased the percentage on rail by more than 1 000 per cent. In the space of five years that is a very good result. It brings the percentage of containers on rail to about 14.5 per cent. Next year we expect an increase to around 100 000 containers. The estimated 84 000 containers will effectively take 65 000 trucks per annum off those roads feeding into the port. There is no doubt that the community, environmental and economic benefits associated with removing this number of trucks off those roads is estimated to be worth around $2 million, which is the cost of the subsidy that we are paying to build up these figures. We have shown that our six-point plan can work. It will always be a challenge to have a sustainable freight network. In this day and age, with the increased cost of fuel and carbon pricing coming into play, we have to be more creative. We cannot simply keep mowing down suburbs and building more roads. We have to continue to take the measures such that we have taken. As I said, an increase in the number of containers coming into the port of Fremantle of more than 1 000 per cent in five years is a pretty good outcome.
We have shown that our six-point plan can work. It will always be a challenge to have a sustainable freight network. In this day and age, with the increased cost of fuel and carbon pricing coming into play, we have to be more creative. We cannot simply keep mowing down suburbs and building more roads. We have to continue to take the measures such that we have taken. As I said, an increase in the number of containers coming into the port of Fremantle of more than 1 000 per cent in five years is a pretty good outcome.
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