{"id":19793,"date":"2024-03-14T13:49:11","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T03:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/?p=115627"},"modified":"2024-03-14T13:49:11","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T03:49:11","slug":"the-innovation-and-technology-driving-heavy-haul-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=19793","title":{"rendered":"The innovation and technology driving heavy haul sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Wabtec-Locomotive-181.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;\"><figcaption>Image\/Informa Australia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Wendy McMillan, Senior Regional Vice President (ANZ and SEA), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wabteccorp.com\/home\">Wabtec Corporation<\/a> spoke at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.informa.com.au\/event\/conference\/transport-logistics\/heavy-haul-rail\/\">Heavy Haul Rail<\/a> around Innovation &amp; Technology: Driving Heavy Haul Sustainability.<\/strong><span id=\"more-115627\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo \u00a0give you some idea of the scale of Wabtec, 20 per cent of world&#8217;s rail freight has moved by Wabtec, that gives us enormous potential to partner with our current customers around decarbonisation,\u201d McMillan said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;re not going to get to where we need to unless we partner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McMillan explained that she is looking forward to the Federal budget this year to see how the government is aiming to influence rail and decarbonisation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a pathway, by using partnerships from government, private enterprise and universities,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;re well aware in industry, of the issues of biofuels and the availability both in Australia and global context.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McMillan explained that railroads need to have the capability, flexibility to still run on diesel, potential hybrids when biofuels are unavailable and that it is imperative that industry takes a strong pathway to decarbonisation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery customer is different in the way they manage their assets and all of life,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, you&#8217;ve got to have that flexibility in pathway but you&#8217;ve also got to have scale and again, this is the crux of Australian manufacturing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McMillan said that many of her colleagues in the United States are asking how is Australia so progressive on 2050 targets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we all know that the answers are strong leadership, strong policy and investments in this new technology,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of us need to advocate together in partnership and get the rubber on the road, particularly with upcoming elections overseas and locally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/the-innovation-and-technology-driving-heavy-haul-sustainability\/\">The innovation and technology driving heavy haul sustainability<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/\">Rail Express<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wendy McMillan, Senior Regional Vice President (ANZ and SEA), Wabtec Corporation spoke at Heavy Haul Rail around Innovation &amp; Technology: \u2026 <\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/the-innovation-and-technology-driving-heavy-haul-sustainability\/\">The innovation and technology driving heavy haul sustainability<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/\">Rail Express<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"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":[5036,170,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conferences","category-freight-rail","category-rail-industry-news-australia-new-zealand"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19793","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19793"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19814,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19793\/revisions\/19814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}