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Parent | ComfortDelGro Australia |
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Founded | May 1988 |
Headquarters | Berrimah |
Service area | Alice Springs Bathchelor Darwin Humpty Doo Jabiru Palmerston |
Service type | Bus services |
Depots | 10 |
Fleet | 208 (December 2022) [1] |
Chief executive | Mick Hannon |
Website | www |
CDC Northern Territory is a bus operator providing services in Alice Springs, Bathchelor, Darwin, Palmerston, Jabiru and Humpty Doo. It is the largest operator in the Northern Territory and the sole operator of the Darwinbus network. [2]
CDC Northern Territory is a subsidiary of ComfortDelGro Australia (CDC) since November 2018, and was rebranded from Buslink in July 2022. [3] The Buslink brand was also used in bus operations in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria until 2020 when these operations were also rebranded to CDC.
Buslink was formed in May 1988 when Darwin operator Ace Bus Service purchased the business of Matilda Tours from Ansett Trailways and merged both operations under the Buslink brand with a fleet of 25 buses. [4] [5]
In 1990 Buslink began operating services from Casuarina to Darwin and Palmerston previously provided by Darwin Bus Service. [6] In July 1992 Buslink took over the Alice Springs services previously provided by Alice Bus Company. [7] [8]
In 1994 the Katherine school services of Travel North were purchased with six buses. [9] In July 2007 Shuker Bus Service was purchased.
In 1999, with the purchase of Gladstone Bus & Coach, Buslink began operating bus services in Queensland under the Buslink Queensland brand. [10] In 2013, it held a 50% shareholding in Buslink Vivo. [11] [12] [13]
In February 2017 Buslink took over Murton's City Bus of Broken Hill. [14] [15] [16]
In November 2018 Buslink was purchased by ComfortDelGro Australia. [17] [18]
On 1 March 2020, Buslink Sunraysia and Buslink Broken Hill were rebranded CDC Mildura and CDC Broken Hill respectively. [19] On 1 October 2020, Buslink Queensland was rebranded CDC Queensland, with Sunshine Coast operations rebranded CDC Sunshine Coast and Gladstone operations rebranded CDC Gladstone. [20] [21]
In June 2022, the Northern Territory Government awarded Buslink a new six-year bus contract to operate all of Darwin's bus services following a competitive tender. [2] Buslink commenced the contract on 1 July 2022 under a new CDC Northern Territory branding and took over services previously operated by Territory Transit. [3] [22]
From August to September 2022, CDC Northern Territory briefly operated a shuttle service for the German Armed Forces exercise "Rapid Pacific 2022" in Darwin. [23]
CDC Northern Territory operates: [24]
Under its previous Buslink branding, it also used to operate:
Buslink also operated employee bus services in Darwin as a joint venture with Transdev called Buslink Vivo. The bus service ceased in July 2019. [28] [29] In January 2022, it took over the operation of school services in Alice Springs and Bathchelor from Australian Transit Group. [30]
Buslink operated in Gladstone and Sunshine Coast as Buslink Queensland. It was rebranded as CDC Queensland in October 2020. [20] [21]
Buslink operated in Broken Hill as Buslink Broken Hill, taking over Murton's City Bus in February 2017. It was rebranded as CDC Broken Hill in March 2020. [19] [31]
Buslink operated in Mildura and Wentworth as Buslink Sunraysia. It operated as a partnership with Transit South West, an operator in Victoria. [32] The operation was previously known as Sunraysia Bus Lines. It was rebranded as CDC Mildura in March 2020. [19]
As at December 2022, the fleet consisted of 208 buses. [1] Fleet livery is white with blue signwriting.
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