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Aurizon Holdings Limited is a publicly listed rail freight company in Australia. Formerly owned by the Government of Queensland, its assets were transferred to a new company, QR National Limited, in July 2010 in preparation for it being floated on the Australian Securities Exchange in November 2010. Aurizon is Australia's largest rail freight company. QR National was established in the 2004/05 financial year when Queensland Rail's coal, bulk and containerised business units were brought under one banner. It was formed with the charter to operate freight services in Queensland and around Australia, expanding though the winning of contracts and the acquisition of other companies. QR National was rebranded as Aurizon in December 2012. Each day the company moves on average more than 700,000 tonnes of coal, iron ore and other minerals as well as agricultural products and general freight across the nation. With operations across five states, Aurizon manages the 2,670 kilometre Central Queensland coal network that links mines to coal ports at Bowen, Gladstone and Mackay and is the largest haulier of iron ore outside the Pilbara. ==History== The QR National brand was established in the 2004/05 financial year when Queensland Rail's coal, bulk and containerised business units were brought under one banner. It also incorporated subsidiaries Interail, which had been acquired in March 2002 and operated services in New South Wales,〔("QR moves into NSW with Northern Rivers Railroad buy" ) ''Rail Express'' 12 March 2002〕〔("QR National push" ) WorldCargo News March 2002〕 and logistics company CRT Group, for which QR National already provided line haulage and purchased outright in June 2005.〔("Queensland Rail sorts logistics for acquisition" ) ''The Age'' 25 June 2005〕 In June 2006 QR National acquired Australian Railroad Group (ARG) which had operations in New South Wales, South Australia and Western Australia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title =Qld Rail 'goes national' with freight expansion )〕〔("Qld Rail buys into freight market" ) ''The Age'' 14 February 2006〕〔(Annual Report ) QR Limited 30 June 2007〕 ARG remained a separate subsidiary operation until it was rebranded as QR National in July 2011. In Queensland, the major traffic is coal, both for export and domestic power generation.〔(Coal ) QR National〕 In 2005 QR National commenced running export coal services in the New South Wales Hunter Valley〔(Hunter Valley Coal System ) QR National October 2011〕 and by November 2007 the QR National network covered the entire mainland (except the Northern Territory) with the operation of their first Melbourne to Perth intermodal container service. In August 2008 QR National took over the operation of Melbourne - Horsham container service for Wimmera Container Line, after Pacific National withdrew its service. Following a vote by its shareholders, QR National was rebranded as Aurizon in December 2012.〔(QR National - Results of AGM ) Aurizon 21 November 2012〕〔(QR National Limited - Change of name to Aurizon Holdings Limited and adoption of replacement Constitution ) Aurizon 3 December 2012〕 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「Aurizon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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