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$30M Aeroklas Distribution Facility Begins Operations
Words by Cameron McLachlan, Australian Automotive Aftermarket To substantially shorten lead times and increase service to customers, distributors, independent stores and original equipment manufacturers in Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania and South Australia, Aeroklas Asia Pacific Group (“AAPG”) has opened a new state-of -the-art distribution and warehousing facility forty minutes’ drive north of Melbourne in Merrifield. The 13,000m2 greenfield facility is the third distribution centre AAPG has opened in Australia and the organisation’s largest to date. The site has enabled AAPG to close its Campbellfield and Tullamarine centres and increases warehousing capacity in Victoria by up to 57 percent. The […]
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Construction Begins on Crucial NSW Inland Rail Section
Words by Marisa Wikramanayake, The Urban Developer Work has begun on a 170km section of the Inland Rail mega-project. Under way is the line the line between Stockinbingal and Parkes in New South Wales. The work is being under taken by Martinus Rail. The section includes infrastructure to allow the use of double-stacked freight trains. Despite many infrastructure projects being paused and assessed as part of a national infrastructure review, the Inland Rail project is going ahead. Its priority is to complete the line and connection between the Beveridge Intermodal Freight Terminal in Victoria and the Parkes terminal in NSW. […]
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Fords re-manufactured in Mickleham
Words by Gerald Lynch, Northern Star Weekly Ford Australia, along with engineering specialists RMA Automotive, have begun re-manufacturing right-hand drive F-150 trucks for Australian customers at a production facility in Mickleham. Star Weekly was invited to a tour of the impressive 21,000 square metre facility, where the team, composed mainly of locals, was wasting no time on getting to work on the re-manufacturing of Ford’s iconic trucks. The level of detail and care being put into the trucks was fascinating, with an assembly line boasting 65 individual stations. The facility has the capacity of both space and labour to complete […]
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KFC coming to Merrifield
A KFC restaurant is coming soon to Merrifield Business Park. Its position at the corner of Donnybrook Road and Aitken Boulevard, near the upcoming Bunnings Warehouse, offers easy access for Merrifield employees and residents alike. KFC will open in late 2024.
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Merrifield Business Park launch to provide sought-after industrial land
Featured in The Industrialist An additional 23 hectares of industrial land is being released at Merrifield Business Park by MAB Corporation and Gibson Property Corporation, amid an ongoing shortage of warehouse space and industrial land in Melbourne’s north. CBRE’s Daniel Eramo and Joe Brzezek have been exclusively appointed to market the next stage of development, which paves the way for approximately 126,500sqm of additional industrial warehousing to be developed in Melbourne’s northern growth corridor. With an investment of $1.2 billion and sitting across 415 hectares, Merrifield Business Park is set to be Victoria’s largest master-planned business and employment precinct, specifically […]
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Plans Filed for Inland Rail Section Upgrades
Words by Marisa Wikramanayake, The Urban Developer Part of the massive Inland Rail project are rolling along with plans filed for upgrades to sections of the line in Victoria. The Australian Rail Track Corporation Inland Rail has filed two planning applications with the state planning department for proposed buildings and works. The plans involve a section of the Inland Rail project from Beveridge to Albury. Double-stacked freight trains are planned for the Inland Rail project, which will run from Queensland to Victoria with a section branching off at Parkes in New South Wales to connect to a line for Western […]
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NSW, Victoria Inland Rail Sections Steam Ahead
Words by Marisa Wikramanayake, The Urban Developer Despite the review under way into what infrastructure projects remain viable and feasible, sections of the Inland Rail project are moving ahead. When it announced the review earlier this year, the Federal government said work on certain sections of the project would continue, subject to relevant planning approvals . This included track connections in Beveridge in Victoria and Parkes in NSW, which are scheduled to be completed by 2027. Martinus Rail has now been awarded a $403.5-million contract to provide the rail line between Albury and Illabo, and Stockinbingal and Parkes. The sections […]
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Melbourne is experiencing short-term shortages of speculative supply across all industrial precincts
Words by Australian Property Markets News After being the most active industrial city in the country in recent years, take-up for industrial warehouses has slowed substantially in the first half of 2023 across the Melbourne market, down 45% from the same point in 2022. However, despite softening demand, Colliers industrial experts anticipate that vacancy for future supply across all markets in Victoria will hover between 2% and 0% by 2026, which will preserve the last two years of gains in effective rents despite more challenging economic conditions. Colliers’ data reveals that speculative supply across Melbourne will jump by 42% in […]
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Sod turned at Somerton terminal
Words by Ray Chan, Rail Express Image: Victorian ports and freight minister Melissa Horne (left), Broadmeadows state member Kathleen Matthews-Ward and Mishkel Maharaj at the terminal site. The Victorian and Federal Governments have welcomed the start of major works at the Somerton intermodal freight terminal in Melbourne’s north, which will create jobs and take thousands of trucks off suburban roads. Intermodal Terminal Company chief executive officer Mishkel Maharaj was joined by ports and freight minister Melissa Horne at the site – a key hub in both the Labor Governments’ $58 million Port Rail Shuttle Network – for a sod-turning ceremony […]
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