Forklift News - Next link in port’s logistics chain

The intermodal logistics centre will reach full capacity by 2016. Photo supplied courtesy of Sydney Ports Corporation

Sydney Ports Corporation has called for Registration of Interest for the design and technical advisory services of its AUD200 million intermodal logistics centre at Enfield, with construction due to begin in 2009.

Approved in September last year, the Enfield Intermodal Logistics Centre (EILC) project is expected to begin operating in 2011/12, and reach full capacity of 300,000 TEUs by 2016. The project will consist of:
• an intermodal facility where containers will be moved on and off trains and trucks;
• warehouses where containers from trains can be stored and unpacked for delivery and where freight coming into the centre can be packed into containers for export;
• empty container storage facilities ;
• a light industrial/commercial area; and
• an ecological/community area.

Once completed, the EILC will be one of the first custom-built terminals aimed at supporting the port’s target of moving 40% of its containers by rail to and from Port Botany. At present, only 21% of containers are transported by rail.

Container trade through Port Botany is expected to exceed 3.2 million TEUs (by 2025 (1.62 million in 2006/07). The facility at Enfield will form part of a network of existing and planned intermodal terminal facilities in Sydney and will service around a quarter of the total intermodal demand.

The ILC is forecast to create around 840 direct and indirect jobs during construction and approximately 850 direct and indirect jobs during operation.

Once the ILC is operating at capacity, an annual economic contribution of
AUD80 million would be generated.

The proposed layout of the Enfield Intermodal Logistics Centre. Photo supplied courtesy of Sydney Ports Corporation

The port aims to move 40% of its containers by rail to and from Port Botany. Photo supplied courtesy of Sydney Ports Corporation

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