At recent events in Sydney and Melbourne, the Logistics Association of Australia Ltd (LAA) and leading international supply chain and logistics management consultant, Logistics Bureau, released the second definitive report on the state of the logistics and supply chain industry in Australia.
“Once again, we are delighted to be working with Logistics Bureau in the production of this report which is the second in a series that will provide regular annual updates on the state of the supply chain and logistics industry,” says LAA President Brad Harrison.
Under the agreement with the LAA, Logistics Bureau is providing research content and analysis on its research findings once a year.
This second annual report comprises an economic update a market update; defines market participants and reviews Australian industry performance as well as giving an overview of the employment and regulatory environment within the industry.
Key findings include:
• In the year leading to March 2009, Service and Storage and Road transport are still the two major contributors to the overall industry gross product, generating 38.3% and 34.8% of the total industry gross product.
• Rail and Pipeline contributed a slightly bigger share in 2009 with 14.5% (up from 13.9%).
• Contribution of Air transport to gross product decreased from 13% to 12.4% in the latest year.
• While employment in Retail, Manufacturing, Construction, Education and Wholesale sectors has weakened, the employment in Transport and Storage has increased from 5.2% to 5.6% in May 09.
• As of May 2009, the Transport and Storage Industry directly employs approximately 600.000 people.
• Furthermore, it is anticipated that the industry employs more than 1.2M people in both direct and associated roles. Apelbaum Consulting Group
For the Year 2006-07, the only data available on Australia’s freight volume comes from the Australian Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE).
• Australia’s total freight volume has grown from 2.8 billion tonnes in 2002-03 to 3.6 billion tonnes in 2006-07.
• The 2006-07 freight volume increased 11.3% from the year earlier. This increase was mainly influenced by a surge in domestic freight volume (12.89%).
• Domestic trade accounted for 80% (2,868 million tonnes) while international trade represented 20 per cent (734 million tonnes) of total freight volume in 2006-07.
• In 2006-07, an estimate of 5.3 million TEUs were handled at Australia’s five capital city container ports.
• Melbourne and Sydney ports are categorised as medium throughput ports, when compared with other countries.
In 2006-07, domestic freight demand was responsible for 507 billion-tonnes kilometres, a year on year growth of 4.73%.
• Road has the largest share of domestic transport carrying 2,146 million tonnes or 75% of total cargo in 2006-07.
• Road freight volume increased at the fastest rate compared to other types of transport and realised 302 million tonnes or 16.38% higher than the previous year.
• In the same year, 665.6 million tonnes were transported by rail and 56.4 million tonnes of freight were transported by sea.
• The actual freight task to date compared with the projection proposed by BITRE shows that the total freight task already surpassed the level projected by BITRE. The main driver has been the higher than expected increase of rail freight task.
For more information, contact Joene Baker, Executive Manager Logistics Association of Australia Ltd Tel: 1300 651 911 / 02 9635 3422/ Mob: 0411 179 157 / Fax: 02 96353466 PO Box 1265, Parramatta NSW 2124 www.laa.asn.au