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The Mental Health Debt Building Across Australia’s Supply Chains
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 workplace mental health and wellbeing, the sector ranks last out of 19 Australian…
Big 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…
ASCLA Welcomes New Platinum Partner – Ofload
Australia’s most efficient road freight partner. Launched in 2019, Ofload is an end-to-end digital freight partner, leveraging technology to move freight across the country with increased visibility, efficiency and reliability, connecting shippers with a trusted network of carriers to remove waste from Australian road transport. Solving a fragmented industry The Australian road freight industry is…
Smaller 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…
The 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…
ASCLA Welcomes New Gold Partner – PDP Foods
PDP Fine Foods is Australia’s market-leading chilled dessert manufacturer, producing the Wicked Sister brand from its state-of-the-art facility in Ingleburn, Southwest Sydney. The site produces up to 18 tonnes of chilled desserts per shift, backed by a $13 million investment in fully automated production technology. Founded by Paul Polly, PDP has grown from a single-pot…
Sixteen 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…
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…
ASCLA Mag June 2026
The June 2026 edition of ASCLA Mag explores how technology, resilience, and leadership are reshaping supply chain and logistics across Australasia. As businesses navigate economic uncertainty, geopolitical pressures, and rising customer expectations, this edition focuses on the practical strategies helping organisations build safer, smarter, and more resilient operations.
