❓ Mr Sprigg questions the Minister about rail freight targets to Fremantle, current rail freight percentage, subsidised companies, and subsidy amounts. The Minister acknowledges the subsidy and promises to provide the requested information as a question on notice.
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RAIL CONTAINER FREIGHT TRAFFIC
Point 2 of the minister’s metropolitan freight network strategy’s six-point plan was to put more freight to Fremantle on rail and the target for containers carried by rail has been set at 15 per cent by 2006 and 30 per cent by 2013. Given that Fremantle port’s 2005-06 annual report states that seven per cent of container freight traffic is on rail - (1) What is the current percentage of freight traffic to Fremantle carried by rail? (2) Which companies are being subsidised to send containers by rail from Kewdale to Fremantle? (3) What is the quantum of those subsidies? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN
Point 2 of the minister’s metropolitan freight network strategy’s six-point plan was to put more freight to Fremantle on rail and the target for containers carried by rail has been set at 15 per cent by 2006 and 30 per cent by 2013. Given that Fremantle port’s 2005-06 annual report states that seven per cent of container freight traffic is on rail - (1) What is the current percentage of freight traffic to Fremantle carried by rail? (2) Which companies are being subsidised to send containers by rail from Kewdale to Fremantle? (3) What is the quantum of those subsidies? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN
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I am happy to provide that information to the member if I may take this as a question on notice. It is true that we are providing a subsidy to do that. Our assessment is that that is indeed at this point in time an efficient way of ensuring the proper distribution and use of our infrastructure in this state and certainly a far cheaper option than spending hundreds of millions of dollars more on providing the road infrastructure that would be necessary to carry those volumes. I am happy to get the member the information on the precise percentages that are currently being carried and the names of the companies that are receiving those subsidies at this stage.
(1) What is the current percentage of freight traffic to Fremantle carried by rail? (2) Which companies are being subsidised to send containers by rail from Kewdale to Fremantle? (3) What is the quantum of those subsidies? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: I am happy to provide that information to the member if I may take this as a question on notice. It is true that we are providing a subsidy to do that. Our assessment is that that is indeed at this point in time an efficient way of ensuring the proper distribution and use of our infrastructure in this state and certainly a far cheaper option than spending hundreds of millions of dollars more on providing the road infrastructure that would be necessary to carry those volumes. I am happy to get the member the information on the precise percentages that are currently being carried and the names of the companies that are receiving those subsidies at this stage.
(2) Which companies are being subsidised to send containers by rail from Kewdale to Fremantle? (3) What is the quantum of those subsidies? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: I am happy to provide that information to the member if I may take this as a question on notice. It is true that we are providing a subsidy to do that. Our assessment is that that is indeed at this point in time an efficient way of ensuring the proper distribution and use of our infrastructure in this state and certainly a far cheaper option than spending hundreds of millions of dollars more on providing the road infrastructure that would be necessary to carry those volumes. I am happy to get the member the information on the precise percentages that are currently being carried and the names of the companies that are receiving those subsidies at this stage.
(3) What is the quantum of those subsidies? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: I am happy to provide that information to the member if I may take this as a question on notice. It is true that we are providing a subsidy to do that. Our assessment is that that is indeed at this point in time an efficient way of ensuring the proper distribution and use of our infrastructure in this state and certainly a far cheaper option than spending hundreds of millions of dollars more on providing the road infrastructure that would be necessary to carry those volumes. I am happy to get the member the information on the precise percentages that are currently being carried and the names of the companies that are receiving those subsidies at this stage.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: I am happy to provide that information to the member if I may take this as a question on notice. It is true that we are providing a subsidy to do that. Our assessment is that that is indeed at this point in time an efficient way of ensuring the proper distribution and use of our infrastructure in this state and certainly a far cheaper option than spending hundreds of millions of dollars more on providing the road infrastructure that would be necessary to carry those volumes. I am happy to get the member the information on the precise percentages that are currently being carried and the names of the companies that are receiving those subsidies at this stage.
I am happy to provide that information to the member if I may take this as a question on notice. It is true that we are providing a subsidy to do that. Our assessment is that that is indeed at this point in time an efficient way of ensuring the proper distribution and use of our infrastructure in this state and certainly a far cheaper option than spending hundreds of millions of dollars more on providing the road infrastructure that would be necessary to carry those volumes. I am happy to get the member the information on the precise percentages that are currently being carried and the names of the companies that are receiving those subsidies at this stage.
(1) What is the current percentage of freight traffic to Fremantle carried by rail? (2) Which companies are being subsidised to send containers by rail from Kewdale to Fremantle? (3) What is the quantum of those subsidies? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: I am happy to provide that information to the member if I may take this as a question on notice. It is true that we are providing a subsidy to do that. Our assessment is that that is indeed at this point in time an efficient way of ensuring the proper distribution and use of our infrastructure in this state and certainly a far cheaper option than spending hundreds of millions of dollars more on providing the road infrastructure that would be necessary to carry those volumes. I am happy to get the member the information on the precise percentages that are currently being carried and the names of the companies that are receiving those subsidies at this stage.
(2) Which companies are being subsidised to send containers by rail from Kewdale to Fremantle? (3) What is the quantum of those subsidies? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: I am happy to provide that information to the member if I may take this as a question on notice. It is true that we are providing a subsidy to do that. Our assessment is that that is indeed at this point in time an efficient way of ensuring the proper distribution and use of our infrastructure in this state and certainly a far cheaper option than spending hundreds of millions of dollars more on providing the road infrastructure that would be necessary to carry those volumes. I am happy to get the member the information on the precise percentages that are currently being carried and the names of the companies that are receiving those subsidies at this stage.
(3) What is the quantum of those subsidies? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: I am happy to provide that information to the member if I may take this as a question on notice. It is true that we are providing a subsidy to do that. Our assessment is that that is indeed at this point in time an efficient way of ensuring the proper distribution and use of our infrastructure in this state and certainly a far cheaper option than spending hundreds of millions of dollars more on providing the road infrastructure that would be necessary to carry those volumes. I am happy to get the member the information on the precise percentages that are currently being carried and the names of the companies that are receiving those subsidies at this stage.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: I am happy to provide that information to the member if I may take this as a question on notice. It is true that we are providing a subsidy to do that. Our assessment is that that is indeed at this point in time an efficient way of ensuring the proper distribution and use of our infrastructure in this state and certainly a far cheaper option than spending hundreds of millions of dollars more on providing the road infrastructure that would be necessary to carry those volumes. I am happy to get the member the information on the precise percentages that are currently being carried and the names of the companies that are receiving those subsidies at this stage.
I am happy to provide that information to the member if I may take this as a question on notice. It is true that we are providing a subsidy to do that. Our assessment is that that is indeed at this point in time an efficient way of ensuring the proper distribution and use of our infrastructure in this state and certainly a far cheaper option than spending hundreds of millions of dollars more on providing the road infrastructure that would be necessary to carry those volumes. I am happy to get the member the information on the precise percentages that are currently being carried and the names of the companies that are receiving those subsidies at this stage.
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