Perth Freight Services
Perth is geographically isolated — 3400+ km from Melbourne by road — and freight into and out of WA moves on distinctly different lead times to the east-coast capitals. Fremantle Port sits on the west side, the Kewdale intermodal terminal on the east, and the Perth metro industrial belt runs through Welshpool, Canning Vale, Malaga, Bibra Lake, Forrestfield, Kwinana and Henderson. QFM coordinates daily movements across all four modes — road, rail, air and local.
Four outbound directions define WA freight: the Indian Pacific corridor east through Kewdale to Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane; the North West Coastal Highway up through the Pilbara to Karratha, Port Hedland and Newman (road-train country); the Great Eastern Highway out to Kalgoorlie and the Goldfields; and the South Western Highway down to Bunbury, Busselton and Margaret River. QFM runs semi linehaul on a 5-6 day transit to Melbourne, rail at 6-7 days on cost-sensitive palletised freight, and mining-support programmes into the Pilbara, Goldfields and Kimberley.
