Pacific National Rail


Pacific National Rail is Australia’s largest Intermodal rail provider and a major provider of bulk haulage rail services.  

Pacific National Rail provides interstate rail freight services to freight forwarders, end users and steel manufacturers, as well as intrastate container and bulk commodity rail solutions.

Through our Intermodal operations, we are the market leader on the East-West and long haul North-South corridors, operating 180 services a week across mainland Australia. We are also responsible for hauling 95% of all steel transported domestically by rail and have proven experience in moving bulk commodities such as grain, magnetite and aggregates.

Key Statistics at at 30 June 2011:

National network of freight terminals in major capital cities

Locomotives = 317

Wagons  = 6,813

Average maturity of contract = 5 years

Revenue = $1.2 billion or 36.6% of Asciano's total revenue

EBITDA = $275.78 million

EBIT = $173.1 million

Total tonnes - Bulk = 13.7 million per annum

Volume NTK - Bulk and Intermodal = 26.116 billion per annum

Total capacity - Intermodal = 700,000 TEUs (Twentyfoot Equivalent Unit) per annum