What sort of vision for the year 2020 would not include a strategy for transport and logistics? Apparently, Kevin Rudd’s
What sort of vision for the year 2020 would not include a strategy for transport and logistics? Apparently, Kevin Rudd’s vision.
Rudd’s big ideas gabfest over the weekend had no idea about logistics.
Supply chain didn’t figure in Rudd’s 10 focus groups for the 2020 Summit. And with the exception of Lindsay Fox, a Labor mate, the logistics industry was scarcely represented at all.
The references to securing Australia’s logistics future were vague at best: talk of a national surface transport licensing system, a national approach to transport infrastructure to improve the state of rail freight, congestion pricing to improve city traffic.
But where were the big ideas on the next big productivity improvement in transport, the big ideas on harmonising costly regulation, the big ideas on better relationships between industry and logistics providers and developing leaner, greener supply chains?
The Australian Logistics Council (ALC) says the summit recommendations “aligned” with its logistics strategy for the future. But it would have to be disappointed by the lockout of any real representation for the supply chain sector.
It’s hard to imagine an idea bigger for the future of Australia’s prosperity than improving Australia’s supply chains.
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