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Pacific National is one of Australia's largest rail freight businesses. Formed in February 2002 as a joint venture between Patrick Corporation and Toll Holdings, it is now a subsidiary of Asciano Limited. ==History== In February 2002 National Rail's freight operations and rollingstock (owned by the Federal, New South Wales and Victorian Governments) were combined with FreightCorp (owned by the New South Wales Government)〔"FreightCorp for sale with National Rail" ''Railway Digest'' October 2000 page 17〕 and sold to a joint venture between Patrick Corporation and Toll Holdings as Pacific National.〔(Freightcorp and National Rail Corporation sold to National Rail Consortium for one billion dollars ) ''ABC News'' 31 January 2002〕 In February 2004 Pacific National purchased Australian Transport Network, operator of ATN Access and AN Tasrail.〔(Acquirer: Pacific National Pty Ltd; Target: Australian Transport Network Ltd ) Australian Competition & Consumer Competition 30 March 2004〕〔(Re: Pacific National - Australian Transport Network Ltd ) Toll Group 26 February 2004〕 In August 2004 Pacific National purchased Freight Australia, giving Pacific National control of the Victorian non-urban rail track, excluding the interstate network which is controlled by the Australian Rail Track Corporation.〔(Victorian Government grants consent to Pacific National acquisition of Freight Australia ) Toll Group 16 August 2004〕 As part of the sale conditions the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission attached special conditions to the sale to ensure competition in the rail freight industry.〔(Sydney Morning Herald: 'ACCC won't oppose Freight Australia takeover' - 2 July 2004 )〕 The company was required to provide a 'starter pack' of locomotives, wagons, train paths, and freight terminals for a third party rail operator on the east-west route across the Nullarbor Plain. To fulfill this Pacific National sold nine refurbished G class locomotives to competitor SCT Logistics to allow it to operate its own services〔("Toll boss bows to ACCC pressure" ) ''Courier Mail'' 13 December 2005〕 In March 2005 Pacific National Queensland became the first non-Queensland Rail narrow gauge commercial rail operation in Queensland, with the commencement of container services between Brisbane and Cairns.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Pacific National Queensland )〕 In November 2006 Pacific National entered into an agreement to sell the remainder of its Victorian rail lease of the network back to the Victorian Government.〔(Pacific National sells Victorian rail network to Government ) Toll Group 1 November 2006〕 The sale was completed in May 2007, with the government owned V/Line taking over management of the track.〔(Minister for Public Transport: "Rail Buy Back Deal Complete" 7 May 2007 )〕 In 2005 Toll Holdings launched a hostile takeover bid for its joint venture partner Patrick Corporation which was successful giving Toll Holdings 100% ownership of Pacific National.〔(Game over: Toll takes Patrick ) ''Sydney Morning Herald'' 14 April 2006〕 In 2007 Toll Holdings was restructured into two separately ASX listed companies: Toll Holdings and Asciano Limited. As part of this restructure, Pacific National became a wholly owned subsidiary of Asciano Limited.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Toll Holdings )〕 In 2009 Pacific National Queensland further expanded their narrow gauge operations, entering the export coal market dominated by incumbent Queensland Rail. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pacific National」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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