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.
Australians are spending more than $3,000 a year on their commute, with the cost of getting to work increasing by 52 per cent, or $1,039, over the past five years.
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.
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.
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.
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 th
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.
A privately owned transport group that started operations in 1996 after winning a Transperth contract to run bus services in Midland has secured a major new contract in Singapore.
Perth-based contractor NRW Holdings, which is best known for its work on Pilbara iron ore projects, is the only local company in three consortiums that have been short-listed to bid for the $2 billion Forrestfield-Airport rail link.
Emeco Holdings has entered merger discussions with Queensland-based Orionstone, three weeks after the rival mining equipment supplier proposed a nil-premium merger.