{"id":177173,"date":"2025-02-18T15:32:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T05:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=177173"},"modified":"2025-02-18T18:17:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T08:17:13","slug":"anl-and-aurizon-partner-on-landbridging-through-darwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=177173","title":{"rendered":"ANL and Aurizon partner on Landbridging through Darwin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ships from Asian Pacific ports to Darwin, then connects directly to Adelaide by rail.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Direct connection from major port hubs in Asia and the Indian Sub-Continent.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>New alternative service offers customers optimal transit time, saving up to 10 days.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>ANL, a renowned shipping company with a rich history in Australia and the Oceania region and Australia\u2019s largest rail freight company Aurizon have partnered on a landbridging supply chain solution for Asia Pacific container traffic through the Port of Darwin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new service offers customers shipping from Asian Pacific ports to Darwin, with direct rail connection to Adelaide and southern Australian destinations as required.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The integrated shipping-rail solution is available from a range of ports including direct connection from Singapore; and with the use of transshipment, Shanghai, Shekou and Qingdao (China), Port Kelang (Malaysia), Laem Chabang (Thailand), Mundra (India), Busan (Korea) and other Asian and Indian Sub-Continent ports. This service offers an average potential time saving of ten days for freight arriving into Adelaide across these ports.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every ANL sailing into Darwin since November 2024 has included landbridging containers for the southern states.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ANL\u2019s General Manager Intra Oceania Trades, Lincoln Dundas stated that&nbsp;<em>\u201cANL is pleased to partner with Aurizon on this new supply chain solution into Australia, we are committed to developing new options or routes for our customers in a mature market, in partnership with industry.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The ocean and rail supply chain provides our customers with optionality and the potential to deliver material time savings, with a reliable and efficient, alternate supply chain.\u201d&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aurizon developed the landbridging solution on the back of the acquisition in 2022 of the 2,200-kilometre Tarcoola to Darwin railway, a large-scale rail haulage business in South Australia and the Northern Territory, and terminal and stevedoring assets at the Port of Darwin.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cAurizon saw an opportunity to offer another service \u2013 an alternate supply chain for shippers and freight customers &#8211; in addition to the existing business that was already operating on this rail corridor,\u2019&nbsp;<\/em>said Gareth Long, Aurizon\u2019s Group Executive Containerised Freight.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cThis leverages the existing assets of efficient track infrastructure and double-stacked container freight trains, integrated with Aurizon\u2019s port and terminal facilities in Darwin.\u2019&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cAurizon is delighted to establish a regular schedule service with global shipping line ANL into Darwin, and we see strong opportunities to grow volumes as we demonstrate to customers the benefits of the ocean and rail service.\u201d&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every ANL sailing into Darwin since November 2024 has included landbridging containers for the southern states.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":177174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15419,6918,47],"tags":[15421,8726,15420,5898,7],"class_list":["post-177173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aurizon","category-darwin","category-rail-news","tag-anl","tag-darwin","tag-landbridging","tag-northern-territory","tag-transport"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177206,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177173\/revisions\/177206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/177174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}