QR Freight Intermodal services the freight forwarding, shipping and removalist markets. It provides a containerised freight transport service from Cairns to Perth, together with specialised customer solutions and value-added ones like rail-based warehousing.

The business has a network of more than 50 terminals and depots near major transport hubs, and access to train paths across Australia.

It also includes the wholly owned subsidiary CRT, a highly specialised national transport and logistics company based in Melbourne.

QR’s intermodal expertise and the quality of its resources helps it compete effectively on cost and provide reliable, on-time delivery. Its eastern seaboard freight service, for instance, delivers fresh produce from Cairns to Melbourne in just four days.

In 2008/09 the business hauled 2.5million tonnes of wholesale freight and 0.7 million tonnes of retail freight across its national network.

In the same period it embarked on major capital investments to help build its long term position in the national linehaul market. They included twelve new locomotives, leases for another nine, and a new $10 million terminal in Perth.

The market is forecast to grow from $1.2 billion to $2 billion by 2020.

More information about QR Intermodal Freight is available on 1300 137 212.