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ASCLA Mag September 2026
The September 2026 edition of ASCLA Mag explores how sustainability is becoming a practical business advantage across Australasia’s supply chain and logistics industry. As AI, data and operational innovation reshape how goods are planned, moved and delivered, this edition examines the strategies helping organisations reduce waste, improve efficiency, strengthen freight resilience and build the workforce…
Read MoreData Centres and the Squeeze on Logistics Land
By Steven Ballerini | CEO of Australasian Supply Chain & Logistics Association (ASCLA) For most of the past decade, the competition for industrial land on the fringes of Sydney and Melbourne was a contest between logistics operators, manufacturers and the developers who built for them. That contest has acquired a new and considerably better-funded participant.…
Read MoreCelebrating an Industry That Rarely Celebrates Itself
By Steven Ballerini | CEO of Australasian Supply Chain & Logistics Association (ASCLA) On Friday 23 October the industry will gather at Brisbane City Hall for the ASCLA Industry Awards, and for the first time in more than six decades of the awards the night will be held in Brisbane. Six decades is a long…
Read MoreHumanoids Are Coming to the Warehouse
By Steven Ballerini | CEO of Australasian Supply Chain & Logistics Association (ASCLA) Humanoid robots have spent the past few years doing plenty of impressive things. They have walked across stages, carried boxes at technology conferences, performed backflips and appeared in a steady stream of promotional videos promising to transform the way we work. What…
Read MoreTwo Hours, Four Thousand Workers — What the FedEx Stoppage Is Really About
By Steven Ballerini | CEO of Australasian Supply Chain & Logistics Association (ASCLA) This Friday, close to 4,000 FedEx workers across the country will down tools for two hours. Two hours will not break anybody’s supply chain. A stoppage that short is a signal, not a siege, and if it were only about the hours…
Read MoreThe Mental Health Debt Building Across Australia’s Supply Chains
By Steven Ballerini | CEO of Australasian Supply Chain & Logistics Association (ASCLA) Australia’s transport, postal and warehousing sector leads on physical safety. Incidents are tracked, hazards are controlled, and near-miss reporting is embedded across the industry. That culture has taken decades to build and the sector is right to be proud of it. On…
Read MoreBig Boxes, Thin Margins — Inside the Collapse of ACFS Port Logistics
By Steven Ballerini | CEO of Australasian Supply Chain & Logistics Association (ASCLA) Every so often a name falls that stops the sector mid-sentence. This month it was ACFS Port Logistics — the country’s largest privately owned container logistics operator, a business built over two decades to a half billion-dollar scale — placed into administration…
Read MoreSmaller Baskets, Bigger Task — Inside the $21.9 Billion eCommerce Quarter
By Steven Ballerini | CEO of Australasian Supply Chain & Logistics Association (ASCLA) Another quarter, another record. Australians spent $21.9 billion online in the final three months of the financial year, up 14 per cent on the same period a year ago, and the coverage has dutifully reported the growth. For most readers that is…
Read MoreThe Industry’s Biggest Night Comes to Brisbane — and Why You Can’t Miss It
By Steven Ballerini | CEO of Australasian Supply Chain & Logistics Association (ASCLA) Supply chain is the most important job most people never think about. When it works, nobody notices. The shelves are stocked, the freight moves, the order lands on the doorstep, and the country goes about its day with no idea of the…
Read MoreSixteen Cents: What the 3 August Fuel Reset Means for Supply Chains
By Steven Ballerini | CEO of Australasian Supply Chain & Logistics Association (ASCLA) On Monday 3 August, the emergency fuel settings that have carried the freight task through the past five months come to an end. Fuel excise returns from 36.6 cents per litre to 52.6 cents. The Heavy Vehicle Road User Charge returns from…
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