LINK TO THE FUTURE OF TRANSPORT AND LOGISTICS

2 From its earliest beginnings, the concept of a thriving transport and logistics hub in the heart of has been logical, feasible and highly attractive. As Victoria’s food bowl, a major manufacturing centre and the gateway to and from northern Victoria and beyond, the has long enjoyed strategic importance for Victoria’s economy. Today that concept has a sound business case, a complete facility design and the government backing and regulatory approval to make it happen. GV Link is now inviting serious investors to stake a claim in one of the most exciting economic development projects undertaken in this region. GV Link will connect industries within the Goulburn Valley to export markets around the globe. GV LINK IS TAKING SHAPE 1

a a GOULBURN VALLEY HWY RD TO INLAND NSW AND QLD

TO ADELAIDE - 740KM Future Goulburn a Valley Route and MIDLAND HWY - TO - 60km Inland TO - 730KM Rail Reserve

MOOROOPNA Mooroopna Freight Rail Terminal

Melbourne/ a Railway Line

MIDLAND HWY TO - 120KM

GOULBURN RIVER

toolamba road simson road

GV LINK BROKEN RIVER

pyke road GOULBURN VALLEY HWY TO MELBOURNE - 180 km

MELBOURNE/SHEPPARTON a RAIL LINE 2 3 ECONOMIC SENSE INVESTMENT POTENTIAL

As a modern transport and logistics centre, GV Link offers an exciting opportunity for GV Link has the potential to provide investors and companies interested in: significant benefits for Victoria and the • Relocating all or significant parts of their Goulburn Valley, including: business to GV Link • A more efficient supply chain for regional • Partnering to build and develop GV Link industries and commercial distributors through the staged construction plan • Reduced congestion on roads into and • Investing capital in this valuable around Melbourne infrastructure for Victoria. • Direct rail access to the Port of Melbourne • Easier access to national and global Why invest in GV Link? markets for regional businesses Image courtesy of Fleur Baldi GV Link is a thoroughly researched, • Promotion of urban renewal multi-faceted investment opportunity likely to realise returns on investment through: • Improving the competitiveness of regional exporters in the marketplace • Its capacity to handle significant freight volumes • Economic growth and prosperity. • The efficiencies and opportunities of In recognition of the project’s importance consolidation and co-location with other to one of ’s most productive, businesses export-driven regions, the Victorian and Australian Governments have already • Its access to rural and regional committed $2 million and $3 million communities and markets respectively to the development of • Its streamlined movement in and out of Stage One of GV Link. Melbourne • Strategic positioning for future growth. Staged investment opportunities, a flexible approach and attractive, negotiable terms for early and significant investment aim to meet investors’ individual business needs and objectives, whatever they may be. GV Link is investment ready now.

GV LINK - GOULBURN VALLEY FREIGHT AND LOGISTICS CENTRE 4 A39 Your business Regional fit 19 18 Barooga at GV Link 20 21 B400 B400 Yarrawonga

Nathalia A39

Imagine the possibilities for your business The Goulburn Valley enjoys growth with 22 B400 Moama 5 at GV Link. stability. It has a strong, dynamic community, 4 Echuca a diversified economy and a workforce skilled 3 2 1 The centre will support a range of commercial B400 B400 to meet the future employment needs of B75 activities related to and vital for manufacturing 7 GV Link and local industry. 8 and food processing, including: 9 A39 GV Link complements other major economic 10 Congupna • Secure, long-term storage for commodities 11 24 development initiatives underway in the 6 Rochester such as fresh fruit, empty cans, processed Merigum 25 26 27 12 Mooroopna Shepparton Goulburn Valley. These projects will create Girgarre 23 28 29 30 fruit and finished goods A300 B75 A300 reciprocal opportunities with GV Link, to 14 Stanhope 16 A39 • consolidation of packaging, labelling and the ultimate benefit of industry and the A300 13 15 A300 other production processes community in this region. Benalla

• centralised warehousing, reducing product GV Link is Greater Shepparton City Council’s B75 Rushworth

handling and transport costs, and saving highest priority project for its Economic M31 Murchison time Development Strategy 2009-2012, and A39 commits Council and its government partners B75 • Quicker, easier freight distribution by truck A300 to driving this and other major economic and/or rail to the ports of Melbourne and development projects in the region. A39 of export-ready product Nagabmie M31 17 • Tenancy for and co-location with upstream Food Bowl Modernisation Project or downstream services, including container servicing and truck maintenance. This Victorian Government project is manufacturers in supported by Council and involves a $2 Goulburn Valley The Goulburn Valley business community has billion modernisation of the irrigated farm embraced GV Link and can be confident that sector by upgrading the water supply 1. Heinz Wattie Echuca 16. Unilever Tatura planning is on track and well underway. infrastructure in the Goulburn Valley Irrigation 2. Riverside Meats Echuca 17. Oz-Taste District. It aims to expand agricultural activity 3. Nestlé Echuca 18. Bega Strathmerton by boosting sector confidence in water GV Link is located at the junction of two major 4. Cedenco Echuca 19. Murray Goulburn Cobram security and future farm productivity. freight routes that service Victoria’s Food Bowl 5. Simplot Echuca 20. Meiji-MGC Cobram and Southern NSW www.nvirp.com.au www.victoriasfoodbowl.com.au 6. Murray Goulburn Rochester 21. Vodusek Meats Cobram • Victoria accounts for 25% of Australia’s total food exports 7. Nestlé Tongala 22. Riverland Oilseed Numurkah

• 85% of canned fruit production occurs in Improved passenger and rail 8. HW Greenham Tongala 23. SPC-Ardmona Mooroopna the Food Bowl region of Shepparton and the freight services 9. CopRice Feeds Tongala 24. Campbell’s Soups Lemnos Riverina in NSW Improvements to passenger and freight rail 10. SPC-A (IXL) Kyabram 25. SPC-Ardmona Shepparton • Goods from wider NSW border region and into and out of the Goulburn Valley have been Murrumbidgee irrigation area also move into 11. Amcor Cans Kyabram 26. VisyPak Shepparton realised through recent rail track upgrades. Victoria for packaging and export 12. Heinz Girgare 27. Visy Board Shepparton Greater Shepparton City Council will continue to play a lead role in advocating for a 13. Fonterra (Bonlac) Stanhope 28. Pental Soaps Shepparton *statistics souced from Freight Futures, 2008 significant stake in Australia’s long-term rail 14. Tatura Milk Tatura 29. Geoff Thompson Shepparton infrastructure. 15. Snow Brand Tatura 30. Amcor Fibre Pack Shepparton

5 GV LINK - GOULBURN VALLEY FREIGHT AND LOGISTICS CENTRE Image courtesy of Port of Melbourne Corporation 6 key economic activities in Greater Shepparton

Manufacturing Construction Output: $2.36b Output: $568m Jobs: 3,468 Jobs: 1,500

Agriculture Output: $500m Jobs: 2,453

Retail Output: $500m Jobs: 4,374

Property & business services Output: $495m Jobs: 1,544 Shepparton City Council 2009 Data supplied by Greater

7 REGIONAL ECONOMY

Cost of building work in the municipality to end of February 2010 $175,844,071 $169,708,097 $160,104,358 $148,595,303 $142,841,258 $127,904,946 $117,114,742 $113,000,000 $109,636,281 $106,521,296 $99,899,368 $87,711,582 Y 2009 Y 2010 1999/2000 2000/2001 2001/2002 2002/2003 2003/2004 2004/2005 2005/2006 2006/2007 2007/2008 2008/2009 E N D OF F EB R U AR E N D OF F EB R U AR

8 9 GOULBURN VALLEY SNAPSHOT Facilitating Partnerships

• Shepparton’s population increased by • Retail floorspace has significantly increased Greater Shepparton City Council has Greater Shepparton City Council is working 2.3% between 2008 and 2009, which from 144,000m2 in 1996 to approximately assumed leadership as project developer in partnership with other levels and key is amongst the highest growth rates in 200,000m2 in 2010 of this landmark venture to ensure: agencies of government, including: regional Victoria. the Australian Government, Victorian • Higher share of manufacturing jobs than • Its timely, efficient delivery in compliance Government and the four neighbouring local • Resident population of more than 61,000 regional Victoria generally (13.3 per cent with Council’s robust planning, building, government municipalities. is forecast to grow by 10,000, or more than vs 10.8 per cent) environmental and associated regulations 16 per cent, by 2026 GV Link has the firm support of government • More than half of manufacturing jobs • Responsible financial management and at all levels because it fits within and meets • Vibrant community and economic activity associated with food manufacture sound, long-term investment secured from a range of key and long-term policy across a 2,421 square kilometre area multiple, viable sources • Existing transport and logistics industry objectives for economic development, • central location within Victoria: base with dedicated workforce, 73 per • A development that addresses the broader transport, regional revitalisation, population 180 kilometres north of Melbourne and cent of which is employed in road transport economic needs of the region and of the growth and the environment. 72 kilometres south of the New South transport and logistics industry locally • Nearly one in four trucks registered in Wales border at Echuca Victoria is from the region • Design values and standards that meet • Produces nearly $2 billion worth of goods the needs of business investors that are • Significant local demand exists for and services each year also harmonious with the surrounding warehousing and logistics, particularly environment • Agricultural production worth $500 million for seasonal produce. in 2008 dollar terms, or 25 per cent of • On-going consultation with all who have the total value of Victoria’s agricultural * Data supplied by Greater Shepparton a stake or potential stake in GV Link’s production City Council 2009 success • $100 million building investment per year • The vision that has captured the on average over the past decade and imagination of the Goulburn Valley for $130 million in 2006 and 2007 over a decade is finally realised. • commercial building approvals at record high in 2008/2009

GV LINK - GOULBURN VALLEY FREIGHT AND LOGISTICS CENTRE 10 11 GV LINK WILL STREAMLINE FREIGHT MOVEMENT IN AND OUT OF THE GOULBURN VALLEY

12 Strategic site location

GV Link is being built on a superb 331 Rail access hectare greenfield site on Toolamba Road, • The rail terminal at Mooroopna, located two kilometres south of the Midland Highway just one kilometre north of GV Link, at Mooroopna, 4.7 kilometres south-west of provides some broad gauge rail siding Shepparton. facilities to existing businesses in the region • Stage 3 of GV Link envisions a true Road access intermodal terminal, with freight seamlessly GV Link is virtually at the crossroads of arriving at the western side of the facility two major central Victorian road systems: by road and leaving to the east by rail from the and the modern new purpose-built rail siding Midland Highway. • GV Link complements plans for the Major roadworks in the planning phase or Donnybrook/Beveridge Interstate Freight already underway in the Goulburn Valley are Terminal under the Victorian Transport Plan, expected to streamline access to GV Link easing large truck congestion and freight and cut travel times in and out of the region. delays through metropolitan Melbourne, and forming part of a new network of major • The proposed route for the Goulburn intermodal freight terminals outside the Valley Highway bypass of Shepparton, Port of Melbourne. anticipated within the decade, will take the highway to the west through Toolamba and directly past GV Link Key Reference Documents: • The Nagambie bypass on the Goulburn Valley Highway has now been funded Freight Futures: Victorian Freight Network and the five-year construction program Strategy, State of Victoria, 2008. will commence in 2010. It will extend the four-lane freeway route for 17 kilometres Northern Victoria Regional Transport Strategy, 2009. to Nagambie’s east • The Midland Highway, just two kilometres north of GV Link, offers easy east-west road connections through to Benalla and Bendigo. Image courtesy of Port of Melbourne Corporation

13 GV LINK - GOULBURN VALLEY FREIGHT AND LOGISTICS CENTRE

GV LINK LOCATION

Mildura City of Greater Shepparton TO ADELAIDE GV Link Melbourne & Geelong Road Rail

TO INLAND AND QUEENSLAND

TO SYDNEY

Albury/ Echuca

SHEPPARTON

GV LINK Benalla

Horsham Bendigo

Melbourne Airport Ballarat

PORT OF MELBOURNE

GEELONG PORT

14 15 DESIGN AT ITS VERY BEST SECURE, PLANNED DEVELOPMENT

GV Link will be a place where optimal • Good solar orientation for environmental GV Link is being developed as a multi-stage functionality meets beautiful industrial design. and occupancy benefit yet highly integrated construction project. The built environment will be innovative, • Building envelopes attuned to the site Stage 1: a general freight and logistics area ecologically sustainable and contemporary. and local environs, including harmonious comprising four allotments. building colours, materials, signage and It will encompass Environmentally Sustainable Stage 2: an additional freight and logistics quality fencing area comprising five allotments. Design (ESD) principles that set a new benchmark for future industrial development • Safe, efficient truck and car parking Stage 3: a true intermodal terminal in the Greater Shepparton region. areas with minimal visual impact on the connecting GV Link businesses to streetscape streamlined road transport access and a high These best practice urban design principles capacity modern rail terminal. are embedded in the design process from the • Landscaping that balances functional, outset and will include: industrial needs with a natural outlook Key milestones The following project milestones have • Energy efficiency in design, construction, • Toolamba Road re-routed and landscaped already been achieved within the timeline materials and landscaping to form an attractive boulevard main and budget: entrance to the site • Water efficiency and management to 2007 conserve and maximise usage of the • Traffic planning and management that • Economic Review completed region’s precious water resources addresses the needs of both site users and the local community • $3 million Australian Government • An on-site stormwater treatment facility to commitment manage site run-off and rural drainage • The site will be fully serviced, with 2008 allotments designed to accommodate the • All industrial and storage functions planned • Planning Scheme Amendment gazetted growth of GV Link businesses, so there’s to minimise the visual and noise impacts • Land acquired for development no risk of being encroached upon. for business and site neighbours • Design EOI concluded GV Link is positioned to become an industrial • Architecture that is responsive to the • $2 million Victorian Government centre of great pride to the Goulburn Valley environment in terms of the scale of commitment region and one of national repute. envelopes, storage areas and building • Planning permit issued proportions 2009 • Shipping container storage areas located, • Landscape Design Report completed wherever possible, out of public view 2010 and the communal container stacking • Detailed design plans complete area located alongside the Melbourne- Shepparton railway line Next Steps: • Industry commitment • Site preparation (12 months) • New tenants relocated and operational • Commitment of GV Highway Shepparton Bypass • Funding sought for next stages of GV Link

GV LINK - GOULBURN VALLEY FREIGHT AND LOGISTICS CENTRE 16 GV LINK IS SITUATED AT THE CROSSROADS OF TWO MAJOR CENTRAL VICTORIAN ROAD SYSTEMS

17 18 MASTER PLAN

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TOOLAMB

SIMSON ROAD

5 1 2.7 ha 2 3.1 ha 5.4 ha 7.4 ha 5 24 23 9.4 ha 11.7 ha 1

10.7 ha 5.2 ha 6.4 ha

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3.9 ha MI 26 R 3.8 ha 3 2.6 ha 9.1 ha 4.2 ha 8 9 4 RAIL TE 21 4.9 ha

2.2 ha 2.6 ha 3.2 ha 14 5.5 ha 10

FUTURE GOULBURN V 27 15 4 2.9 ha 4.3 ha 11 3.4 ha 16 TOOLAMBA ROAD DEVIATION 28 3 12 6 2.1 ha 9.1 ha ALLEY FREEWAY 13.8 ha 17 WATER DETENTION BASIN 29 1.5 ha WETLANDS 18 3.9 ha OUTFALL 2.6 ha 30 19

3.3 ha 31 13 2

8.6 ha This map is for information purposes only as the 6.4 ha Plan of Subdivision has not been finalised and may be subject to change. 20 D 32 2 OA The intermodal terminal is expected to be constructed as part of Stage 3 of GV Link however PYKE ROAD BA R M may commence earlier with market demand.

TOOLA

19 STAGE ONE

D

ROA A SIMSON ROAD EXISTING GMW DETENTION BASIN 66.54 349.43 1 14.14 TOOLAMB 1 ROAD 2.7 ha A210.90

164.44 14.14 SIMSON ROAD

218.03 A60.82 26.96 1 A227.49

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24 23 21.40

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MI 26 R 90 3 386.02 376.02 8 9 RAIL TE 4 TOOLAMBA ROAD DEVIATION 21 4 ha 2 86.50 385.94 14 10 14.14

FUTURE GOULBURN 27 15

100 11 3.9 ha 16 TOOLAMBA ROAD DEVIATION 365.87 3 28 12 4

VALLEY FREEWAY EXISTING SEYMOUR-TOCUMWAL RAIL LINE 17 WATER DETENTION BASIN 14.15 29 86.50

WETLANDS TOOLAMBA ROAD 18 OUTFALL

30 19

31 13

20 D 32 OA

PYKE ROAD BA R M This map is for information purposes only as the Plan of Subdivision has not been finalised and may be subject to change. The intermodal terminal is expected to be constructed as part of Stage 3 of GV Link however GOULBURN RIVER may commence earlier with market demand.

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20 TAKE THE NEXT STEP

GV Link awaits your serious consideration and investment. If you would like to learn more about GV Link or discuss your business opportunity on a confidential basis, contact:

Economic Development Manager Greater Shepparton City Council Locked Bag 100, Shepparton Vic 3632 Telephone (03) 5832 9847 Email [email protected] You can also visit the GV Link website at www.gvlink.com.au for regular project news and updates.

21 22 Greater Shepparton City Council Telephone (03) 5832 9847 Email [email protected] Website www.gvlink.com.au

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