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Australia Freight Transport Report Q1 2008
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The Australian freight industry continues to face strategic re-positioning. Most of 2006 was dominated by
Toll Holdings’ long battle to acquire its rival Patrick Corporation. In 2007, the takeover victors are
now restructuring around two main units, Toll and the newly-created Asciano, which groups rail and port
holdings. In August Toll reported a strong rise in profits and indicated it was interested in a possible
takeover bid for Brambles, a pallet and container supplier. It reported a four-fold increase in net profits in
the 2006/07 financial year, to AUD1.28bn (US$1.02bn). Managing director Paul Little said that Brambles
was a very attractive target for Toll, particularly because of its operations outside Australia. Toll had
already spent around AUD83mn to acquire a 0.5% shareholding in Brambles; separately, Asciano had a
3.79% stake in Brambles.
BMI’s newly-released Australia Freight Transport Report concludes that these developments will be
positive for the domestic industry in the long term. Toll’s new economies of scale and international
ambition will be a plus factor. BMI believes that this new alignment, together with a new round of
competition in airfreight, will support our forecast that freight carried, measured by million tonne-km
(mntkm), across all modes will grow by an annual average of 4.8% between 2007 and 2012.
With jet fuel prices now at more reasonable levels, we expect airfreight traffic growth of 6.8% per annum
over the next five years. Rail freight will grow vigorously, rising by 5.3% per annum, on the back of
strong mining exports and infrastructure development. Road haulage freight will achieve average annual
growth of 4.2%, with strong demand held back by capacity limits. New motorway investment will not be
enough to keep ahead of demand. Our shipping-freight forecast, boosted by commodity exports, is now
set for average annual growth of 4.7% in the forecast period.
These rates of growth are impressive for an OECD economy. It is important to underline that freight
growth will outstrip GDP expansion, a relatively unusual state of affairs for more developed economies.
Part of Australia’s attraction as a transport market is this combination of significant growth potential with
a strong and stable operating environment. BMI gives the Australian freight industry operating
environment a score of 49 out of a theoretical maximum of 70. This is significantly above the Asia Pacific
average of 44.5.
Our conclusion is that Australia can look forward to a particularly vibrant freight industry over the next
decade, with diversified growth across all modes, and with the overall value of transport and
communications growing to US$51.65bn by 2012, representing 5.7% of total GDP.
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