{"id":681148,"date":"2026-05-19T16:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T16:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/681148\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T16:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T16:42:08","slug":"somerton-intermodal-one-of-australias-largest-freight-terminals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/681148\/","title":{"rendered":"Somerton Intermodal &#8211; One of Australia\u2019s largest Freight Terminals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Somerton Intermodal Terminal in Melbourne is one of Australia\u2019s largest freight infrastructure projects, designed to transform how freight moves across Victoria and the national network.<\/p>\n<p>Delivered by ACCIONA for the Intermodal Terminal Company, the facility strengthens connectivity between road, rail and port, while enabling more efficient and sustainable freight movement.<\/p>\n<p>At full capacity, the terminal is expected to remove up to 500,000 truck trips from Melbourne\u2019s roads each year, significantly reducing congestion, fuel use and carbon emissions.<\/p>\n<p>Supporting this outcome, ACCIONA partnered with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salixproducts.com.au\/\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Salix <\/a>to design and deliver complex turnout and trackwork solutions, along with integrated crane rail systems to support terminal operations.<\/p>\n<p>The project highlights the value of collaboration in delivering complex rail infrastructure and positions Somerton as a key enabler of more reliable, efficient and sustainable freight movement.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the Somerton Intermodal Terminal in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/collaboration-on-track-delivering-the-somerton-intermodal-terminal\/\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Rail Express feature.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Somerton Intermodal Terminal in Melbourne is one of Australia\u2019s largest freight infrastructure projects, designed to transform how&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,328464,44,328463],"class_list":["post-681148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-designed-to-transform-how-freight-moves-across-victoria-and-the-national-network","tag-news","tag-the-somerton-intermodal-terminal-in-melbourne-is-one-of-australias-largest-freight-infrastructure-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}