{"id":4693,"date":"2016-08-04T10:37:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T09:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2016\/08\/04\/melbourne-truck-efficiency-targeted\/"},"modified":"2016-08-04T10:37:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T09:37:00","slug":"melbourne-truck-efficiency-targeted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2016\/08\/04\/melbourne-truck-efficiency-targeted\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne truck efficiency targeted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arguing for a more efficient system for moving freight in the state, he said truck utilisation for port containers is just over 1.2 teu per truck, involving about 1.6m truck movements a year to and from the port. With the forecast increase in container volumes, this could balloon out to four million truck movements by 2035.<\/p>\n<p>However, by improving truck utilisation to two teu per truck by 2035, annual truck movements would be at a more manageable three million annually. This made it imperative to target truck efficiency, with high-productivity vehicles the principal focus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe recognise that a growing freight task in Victoria \u2013 and perhaps more importantly, a growing export freight task \u2013 means we have to find smarter ways to move more freight more efficiently,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria Ports Minister Luke Donnellan has backed the use of high-productivity trucks to boost the movement of freight to and from the Port of Melbourne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-4693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oceania"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4693"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=4693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}