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ASCLA Partners with Healthy Heads in Trucks & Sheds to Support Mental Health Across the Supply Chain
Healthy Heads in Trucks & Sheds (Healthy Heads) and the Australasian Supply Chain & Logistics Association (ASCLA) have formalised a new partnership aimed at improving mental health and wellbeing outcomes across Australia’s supply chain and logistics workforce. The partnership brings together ASCLA’s extensive network of supply chain and logistics professionals with Healthy Heads’ expertise in…
Cleared for Take-Off: What Western Sydney Airport Means for Freight
By Steven Ballerini | CEO of Australasian Supply Chain & Logistics Association (ASCLA) After fifteen years of planning and seven years of construction, Australia’s first major new airport in more than half a century is about to open its doors. Western Sydney International (Nancy-Bird Walton) Airport, built on Commonwealth land at Badgerys Creek and Luddenham…
Running out of Road: The Great Logistics Shakeout
By Steven Ballerini | CEO of Australasian Supply Chain & Logistics Association (ASCLA) The Australian logistics sector has spent the past three years talking about resilience. The conversation has fixed on disruption, labour shortages, geopolitical risk and the growing complexity of global trade. Beneath all of it sits a simpler and more uncomfortable reality. Too…
The Four Questions Defining Intralogistics in 2026
By Steven Ballerini | CEO of Australasian Supply Chain & Logistics Association (ASCLA) In under a fortnight, the Australian materials handling and intralogistics calendar reaches its centrepiece. CeMAT Australia 2026, hosted by Hannover Fairs, runs from 23 to 25 June at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, bringing together the technologies, operators and thinkers shaping…
Last Mile Leaders – Eye on the Last Mile 6.0 – APAC Report
Last Mile Convergence: What APAC Last Mile Leaders Must Do Next APAC is not one Last Mile it is many, twenty-four economies, island networks, vast and sparse distances, and carrier ecosystems that fragment country by country. The last mile in our part of the world does not behave like the last mile anywhere else, most…
Offshore Investors Back Western Sydney Logistics Again
By Steven Ballerini | CEO of Australasian Supply Chain & Logistics Association (ASCLA) Two of the region’s largest property investors have placed a fresh bet on Australian industrial property. On 1 June 2026, Singapore-based ESR and Mitsubishi Estate Asia, the regional investment arm of one of Japan’s largest developers, announced a new development partnership to…
NSW Opens the Door to Serious Fuel Security Investment
By Steven Ballerini | CEO of Australasian Supply Chain & Logistics Association (ASCLA) The NSW Government has signalled a significant shift in how it intends to address one of the most quietly persistent risks sitting underneath the Australian supply chain: the country’s heavy dependence on imported liquid fuels and the long, exposed sea lanes that…
Zero-Emission Trucks: The Global Memorandum and Australia’s Position
By Steven Ballerini | CEO of Australasian Supply Chain & Logistics Association (ASCLA) On 11 May 2026, the Victorian Government endorsed the Global Memorandum of Understanding on Zero-Emission Medium and Heavy-Duty Vehicles, joining the Australian Capital Territory as the second Australian subnational signatory. The Memorandum is the principal international coordination instrument on heavy-vehicle decarbonisation, with…
What the Federal Budget Means for Australian Supply Chains
By Steven Ballerini | CEO of Australasian Supply Chain & Logistics Association (ASCLA) On Tuesday 12 May 2026, Treasurer Jim Chalmers handed down a Federal Budget that, for the first time in years, places supply chain and freight at the centre of the national economic conversation. The $14.8 billion Strengthening Australia’s Fuel Resilience package, $1.75…
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