The deal will combine the two operators’ first- and last-mile rail services and terminal infrastructure businesses across Canada and the United States.
The initiative replaces more than 1,400 annual truck journeys with rail transport, equivalent to 1.2 million road kilometres and 1,500 tonnes of CO₂ savings each year.
Linfox has been “let down” by the fragility of Australia’s rail networks and some of the logistic group’s customers now refuse to put goods on trains despite the benefit of lower carbon emissions, says chief executive Mark Mazurek.
