On the rail again: KiwiRail reopens Picton-Christchurch freight service
Reduced costs and less risk as heavy trucks come off the road.
Reopening the rail freight service between Picton and Christchurch can’t come soon enough for Tony Bascik, who runs a nationwide freight forwarding company.
“We were doing 300,000km of heavy truck haulage a month through the Lewis Pass,” he says. That’s 12 truck and trailers return tripping
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Duncan Bridgeman
Wed, 13 Sep 2017
Wed, 13 Sep 2017
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On the rail again: KiwiRail reopens Picton-Christchurch freight service
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