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Road extension to improve Port Botany access

Work has begun on a road project to improve heavy vehicle access to freight precincts around Port Botany and Sydney Airport.

Thorpe named 2010 Asphalt Institute chairman

The Asphalt Institute named William L. (Bill) Thorpe, Jr. of ALON USA/Paramount Petroleum Corporation as 2010 chairman of the board of directors at the Institute’s annual meeting in Bonita Springs, Florida.

29th Bauma biggest yet

Bauma, the biggest exhibition of anything in the world, happens every three years witth the next one, the 29th, to run from from April 19 to 25.

Germany's face is more than a veneer

Lonely Planet says Germany is more than Mercedes Benzes and shampooed poodles. Indeed it is. Having just spent most of the last week in the Bavarian capital city of Munich to attend a media preview for the forthcoming bauma (see news item), it is easy I suppose to make conclusions that maybe don't apply to the rest of the country. But here goes.

Crucial WA grain rail network decision looms

The Western Australian Government is expected to reveal its course of action for the state’s decaying grain freight network within the next two weeks.