- CEO
- Andrew T. Harding
- Full Time Employees
- 6,057
- Sector
- Industrials
- Industry
- Railroads
- Address
- 900 Ann Street Fortitude Valley QLD Australia 4006
- IPO Date
- Feb 14, 2013
- Business
- Aurizon Holdings Limited is Australia's largest rail freight operator, providing integrated rail freight and logistics solutions across extensive national rail and road networks; its core segments include Network, which manages and provides access to the 2,670-kilometre Central Queensland Coal Network linking mines to ports at Bowen, Gladstone, and Mackay; Coal, hauling over 192 million tonnes annually of metallurgical and thermal coal primarily from Queensland and New South Wales; Bulk, transporting approximately 55 million tonnes per year of iron ore, grain, mineral sands, agricultural products, and other commodities; and Other, offering containerised freight, intermodal services, rail design, engineering, construction, maintenance, and supply chain solutions. Incorporated in 2010 and headquartered in Fortitude Valley, Queensland, the company, formerly QR National Limited, operates across five Australian states including Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia, and the Northern Territory, serving miners, primary producers, and industrial customers with a fleet exceeding 250 million tonnes of annual commodity transport. Recent developments include a landmark A$1.5 billion multi-year contract with BHP for integrated rail, road, and port logistics supporting copper operations in South Australia awarded in 2025; an agreement with Alcoa in October 2025 to trial Battery Electric Tender technology on the Kwinana-Pinjarra route aimed at reducing emissions, building on a 2024 ARENA grant; completion of a $300 million on-market share buy-back in FY2025 followed by announcement of a $150 million buy-back for FY2026; securing regulatory certainty for the Network business via a non-binding term sheet for a new Draft Amending Access Undertaking in July 2025; and a $60 million annualised cost-out program reshaping the organisation with approximately 200 role reductions to enhance agility.