Transport & Logistics

Cabcharge is working frantically to get its taxi payment app off the ground in the next six months.

Logistics company Qube Holdings has written down the value of its port assets at Utah Point and Dampier by $38.5 million, after reviewing the outlook for the iron ore and oil and gas sectors.

Emeco Holdings managing director Ken Lewsey has resigned as the company continues to push towards profitability.

Passengers have been evacuated from a bus in Perth's CBD, after smoke started billowing from the rear of the vehicle.

Local technology firm DTI Group has won a contract to supply its video surveillance systems for new buses in the US, for an undisclosed amount.

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Rideshare giant Uber has announced it will increase fares 10 per cent while it battles the Australian Taxation Office’s recent GST ruling in the Federal Court.

Transport Minister Dean Nalder said today the government was still working out how it would handle an expected doubling in truck movements around Fremantle, but has ruled out one option – sinking a tunnel under the Swan River.

Services on the famed Perth-to-Sydney train, the Indian Pacific, will be cut and pensioner ticket prices hiked as its operator tries to make up for a $9 million federal budget cut.

Raw Hire will close its Pilbara vehicle hire operations in response to the mining slow down.

Fremantle-based marine services company MMA Offshore has announced that it expects to make a $120 million non-cash impairment for the 2015 financial year.

Mining giant BHP Billiton has announced plans to construct a new eight-pen tug harbour at Hunt Point in Port Hedland, as well as purchase six additional tugs, for $US240 million ($A326 million).

Taxi and Uber drivers are set to compete on a level playing field after Transport Minister Dean Nalder revealed the state government’s green paper into the industry.

A blaze on the same model of bus involved in a spate of fires in Perth two years ago was an isolated incident, the Public Transport Authority says.

The state government is softening its stance on ride-sharing service Uber, but won't drop prosecutions against drivers accused of breaking the law, Premier Colin Barnett says.

Solutions to Perth's growing traffic congestion look set to be a main theme of the 2017 state election, with the WA government changing its tune on the MAX light rail project.

Brookfield Asset Management is seeking to add ports and rail operator Asciano to its expansive Australian interests, which already include Brookfield Rail, construction giant Brookfield Multiplex, half of oil and gas producer Quadrant Energy, and multiple city office towers.

Sadleirs Logistics, a subsidiary of Western Australia’s oldest family-owned business, has won a contract to supply mainland transport services to Chevron’s operations in the Pilbara for an undisclosed sum.

The state government has announced plans to construct 15 new passing lanes along the Great Eastern Highway, with the project to cost $48 million.

Plans by Emeco Holdings to diversify and accelerate its growth through M&A deals have come to naught, after the mining equipment supplier announced today its agreed takeover of Perth company RentCo and its merger discussions with Queensland competitor Orionstone had both been terminated.

MMA Offshore has won a contract to supply its marine logistics and supply base services for Chevron’s operations in the north-west, in a deal worth $100 million.

A change of leadership at Swan Taxis is part of a strategy to shake up the company’s image, but there will be a tough fight ahead.

The state government is providing $10 million to fast-track the replacement of a traffic bridge over the Murray River south of Pinjarra.

Shipbuilder Austal has won a $26 million contract to build a high-speed catamaran crew boat for an unnamed operator based in South-East Asia.

West Perth-based trucking company CTI Logistics has acquired an unlisted Sydney-based logistics business with national reach, in exchange for a cash and share package worth $27 million.

Conflict of interest concerns have again been raised about Transport Minister Dean Nalder, this time regarding the contentious $1.6 billion Perth Freight Link.

With apprenticeship completion rates below 30 per cent in some industries, the business sector is continuing to push for reforms to vocational education and training.

Adelaide-based York Civil has won its fourth substantial project in Western Australia since opening its Perth office in 2012, after teaming up with an Italian contractor new to the WA market to win

Shares in logistics and infrastructure company Qube have hit a seven-month low as it warned tough trading conditions are unlikely to improve in the next 12 months.

Ride sharing service Uber is facing increased regulatory battles, with the WA government prosecuting more drivers and the Queensland government moving to protect the taxi industry, which Uber describes as a protected monopoly market.

Uber is considering legal action to challenge a tax office ruling that requires its drivers to pay GST in line with taxi operators.

Having taken Perth by storm in the past year, Uber is planning a new car pooling product that could cut traffic congestion and transportation costs if the experience in other cities is repeated, general manager (Australia) Simon Rossi told a Business News Success & Leadership breakfast this morning.