First Australian national freight and supply chain strategy: making every government freight aware

Australia's first National Freight and Supply Chain Strategy (Freight Strategy) was recently released, setting goals and targets for the transportation industry to 2024.

In the third of our four-part series we take a step back to see where the Freight Strategy came from and examine the third critical action area that was identified: Better planning, coordination and regulation.

We also look at the implications in a local context, with a short commentary about NSW's freight requirements outlined at the end of this article.

Where did the Freight Strategy come from?

In March 2017, the Commonwealth Government initiated the Inquiry into National Freight and Supply Chain Priorities (Inquiry). This itself was influenced by a recommendation made by Infrastructure Australia in 2016 that governments and industry work together to develop a 'whole-of-network' strategy examining Australia's freight and supply chains.