Western Australia-based grain haulage company Cooperative Bulk Handling (CBH) is to submit its Grain Express proposal to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).
The proposal, if successful, would enable CBH to control the state’s entire grain transport, storage and handling facilities in the wheat market without regulation.
Under the proposal, all grain would be transported via rail, and the company is seeking the ACCC’s support to implement the system before harvest season, CBH’s logistics manager Tim Collins told the ABC.
Mr Collins was quoted as saying: “Everything hinges around the bundling of freight with the storage and handling.
“That’s the critical question they’re here to consider…and we’ve got a very convincing argument about why everything with Grains Express hangs off that.”