{"id":264635,"date":"2025-08-10T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T06:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=264635"},"modified":"2025-08-10T12:10:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T02:10:23","slug":"how-aurizons-bet-on-rail-was-a-bet-on-the-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=264635","title":{"rendered":"How Aurizon\u2019s bet on rail was a bet on the economy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Like Warren Buffett, Aurizon chief Andrew Harding sees the freight operator as an enabler of economies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=238000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"BHP Copper SA creates major logistics solution with Aurizon\">BHP was a deal that came together ahead of time<\/a>, and began when\u00a0<em>Aurizon acquired South Australia&#8217;s One Rail for $2.35bn<\/em>\u00a0in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The disappointing aspect of the BHP deal is the solution still relies on a trucking option rather than building a spur line to the mine site.  The site has over 50 years of business available that ought to be enough for any railway and the customer to build a spur line especially when goods and chemicals also need to go to the mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The catch? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Railroads eat capital and that is where governments should be assisting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Railroads eat capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":264636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[273,47],"tags":[5722],"class_list":["post-264635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-rail-news","tag-aurizon"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264635","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=264635"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264692,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264635\/revisions\/264692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/264636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}