ARA Chief Executive Caroline Wilkie said: “While the road sector has received a respite from government with the removal of the heavy vehicle road user charge, the rail industry is trying to manage the impact of these costs with customers.

“The current fuel crisis has highlighted structural weaknesses in our national freight system that have led to an overreliance on road freight. We need to be moving more freight on rail to reduce the use of diesel.

A single train on the east-west corridor: could save about 200,000 litres of diesel compared to the equivalent truck transport, while also generating16 times less carbon pollution compared to the road and reducing road accident costs.

Read the story in The Australian here.