On the rail again: KiwiRail reopens Picton-Christchurch freight service
Reduced costs and less risk as heavy trucks come off the road.
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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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