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Preaching to the converted

The biggest player in Australian rail freight had some interesting things to say about our sector at the inaugural Australasian Rail Association (ARA) Rail Freight conference in Brisbane in October.

Pacific National COO Patrick O’Donnell delivered the keynote address and made some points strongly in favour of rail over road.

Patrick said that a major strength of rail at the height of the pandemic was its ability to

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