Wayne James Email and Phone Number

Wayne’s professional interest and passion lies with identifying and exploring strategic rail transport initiatives that support and deliver ‘Value Add’ options to meet the needs of national supply chains, their logistic and service providers and the opportunities that enhance rail sustainability, it’s green credentials and resilience by unlocking it’s infrastructures capacity. This would increase service capability to make rail the Line Haul ‘mode of choice’ in an integrated bi-modal land transport service environment to meet current and future supply chain needs, contribute to under lying economic productivity and facilitate greater regional connectivity here in Australia and New Zealand.He has held senior executive and managerial positions in both the public and private enterprises over the past 40 years, experiences covering all facets of railway infrastructure planning, design, construction, track maintenance, railway operations, project delivery and business development involved in the running of freight and urban passenger railways across Australia.This background see that he is well placed and suited to identifying solutions that make rail competitive and increase its usage.During his career he has held the senior executive positions of Chief Operating Officer, Chief Executive Officer and the Commissioner of Railways and has been involved in running rail operations in all Australian mainland states.