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Australia heads Asia-Pacific skills standardisation project

TLISC and federal government helping to build logistics skills in four key Asian markets

 

Australia’s transport and logistics industry is helping to develop regional standards that will apply in other Asia-Pacific markets.

The federal government is also contributing to a project that maps the availability of skills in the region with a view to increasing the mobility of labour between countries.

The Transport and Logistics Industry Skills Council (TLISC) is heading up the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Transport and Logistics project, working with industry and government training providers in China, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam.

It is developing regional occupational standards for several key logistics roles, including those of warehouse operators, freight forwarders, and supply chain managers.

“Part of TLISC’s ongoing project management role is to provide guidance on gaining industy engagement in the development and validation of these skill standards,” the latest project update from TLISC reveals.

Australia’s foreign affairs minister Julie Bishop announced the federal government’s support at the Global Skills Training Forum in Sydney this week.

“Transport and logistics are central to global supply chains which connect Australia to the region and the world,” she says.

“The APEC Transport and Logistics project will provide businesses operating within and across these economies with greater understanding and certainty of the core skills required and held by workers in these occupations.”

She says that will help to lift standards across markets and make it easier for workers to have their qualifications recognised across borders.

“Importantly, this project also provides opportunities for Australian providers to deliver high quality, industry-relevant training to more students overseas,” she says.

Assistant education minister Simon Birmingham says the federal government is providing $259,000 towards the project.

The project is similar to, but still distinct from, a memorandum of understanding between TLISC and its counterpart in India.

 

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