GRAIN exporter Peter Cremer Australia is planning to establish a transport depot at Ettamogah close to Albury Council’s Nexus industrial hub.
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The Melbourne-based company has lodged a development application with the council to build a $3.7 million freight transport facility on the corner of Gerogery Road and Hub Road.
It will be located about 1.3 kilometres from the Ettamogah rail terminal and occupy about 8.4 hectares.
The proposed development will include large-scale silos and a road-to-rail distribution depot with grain collected at the site distributed by rail to major sea ports.
It exports grain to South-East Asia and the Middle East.
Existing businesses Overall Forge and Norske Skog are also located nearby.
Once completed, the freight transport facility will operate “24/7” during the harvest period, but Monday to Friday and some Saturdays during off-peak times.
It is expected to employ six people when established.
Trucks will access the facility from the Hume Highway and Wagga Road.
Reticulated water, electricity, and telecommunications services are available to the site.
The council’s draft budget handed down earlier this month includes an initial $4 million investment in stage one of the nearby Nexus industrial hub.
The 55 hectares of land on which the hub will be developed was formerly known as Kenilworth and was acquired by the council from the now defunct Albury-Wodonga Development Corporation in 2006. It is also located near the privately operated Ettamogah rail facility on the opposite side of Gerogery Road to where the Cremer freight transport facility is proposed on land formerly owned by Overall Forge.
Two councillors opposed the draft budget on the basis ratepayers could be forced to force to bankroll the remaining $7 million required to upgrade the Davey Road interchange.
The federal government has contributed $7 million, but a further federal funding application for $7 million failed last week.
A submission has been made to the NSW government.