SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — Riding three straight years of bumper crops in Australia, GrainCorp and Pacific National have extended for another five years their partnership to move grain across the southeast Australia states of New South Wales and Victoria.

The longtime partnership is a key pillar of GrainCorp’s integrated value chain, said Robert Spurway, managing director and chief executive officer of GrainCorp, a diversified global agribusiness and processing company based in Sydney, Australia. 

“GrainCorp and Pacific National have worked together through the challenges of COVID-19 restrictions and weather impacts to the network over the last few years to deliver a strong supply chain performance for the industry,” Spurway said. “We are looking forward to the next five years of collaboration.”

GrainCorp has the largest regional accumulation, storage and handling network on the east coast of Australia. The company operates more than 160 regional receival sites and seven bulk ports, connected by road and rail infrastructure.

Over the past three years, GrainCorp has moved 7.6 million tonnes of grain, with trains covering over 3.6 million kilometers (2.23 million miles) to complete the shipments.

“Pacific National has deep and unrivaled experience, expertise and capacity in hauling large volumes of grain safely and efficiently,” said Paul Scurrah, CEO of Pacific National. “This includes being able to call on the resources of 300 highly trained and skilled essential frontline freight workers and a rolling stock fleet of more than 50 locomotives and 1,400 grain wagons.