page_title: ComfortDelGro
section_title: Australia
hierarchical_section_title: ComfortDelGro / Overseas operations / Australia
caption_attribution_description: English: 2012-2015 Toyota Camry (ASV50R) Atara S sedan, Swan Taxis. Photographed in Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia.
context_page_description: ComfortDelGro Corporation is a multi-national land transport company listed on the Singapore Exchange, operating 41,600 vehicles in seven countries. It was formed on 29 March 2003 through a merger of Singapore-based land transport companies Comfort Group and DelGro Corporation.
  On 17 September 2019, ComfortDelGro announced that it is listed on the Dow Jones Sustainability Asia Pacific Index in recognition of its sustainability efforts, thus becoming the first transport company in Singapore to do so.
context_section_description: ComfortDelGro Australia is ComfortDelGro's Australian subsidiary, and operates buses in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory.  The subsidiary started out in 2005 as a joint venture between ComfortDelGro (51%) and Australian taxi company Cabcharge (49%) known as ComfortDelGro Cabcharge (CDC), to purchase Westbus and Hillsbus in Sydney and Hunter Valley Buses from National Express.
  In August 2006 ComfortDelGro Cabcharge expanded purchasing the Western Sydney services of Baxter's Bus Lines followed in August 2007 by Morisett Bus Service, Sugar Valley Coachlines and Toronto Bus Service.
  In November 2008 Kefford Corporation in Victoria was purchased followed in September 2012 by Queanbeyan-based Deane's Buslines and Transborder Express, the Melbourne bus services of Driver Group in July 2013 and the Blue Mountains Bus Company in August 2014. In February 2017, ComfortDelGro purchased Cabcharge's shares in the business with it rebranded ComfortDelGro Australia.
  In 2018, ComfortDelGro acquired Tullamarine Bus Lines, National Patient Transport, Coastal Liner, Forest Coach Lines and Buslink. In May 2019 ComfortDelGro acquired Blanch's Bus Company and Brunswick Valley Coaches in the Northern Rivers region.
  Additionally, Swan Taxis based in Perth became wholly owned by ComfortDelGro in 2010. Swan Taxis later acquired Metro WA Taxi in October 2017. Being wholly owned by ComfortDelGro since acquisition, Swan Taxis was never part of CDC.
caption: Swan Taxis
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