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ANNUAL REPORT 2020 CONTENTS CONTENTS About Us ..............................................................................4 ALC Members ......................................................................5 Message From ALC Chair, Philip Davies .............................6 Message From CEO, Kirk Coningham, OAM ......................8 Board Members ...................................................................12 Our Values ...........................................................................14 ALC Team Members ............................................................14 Committees .........................................................................15 Strategic Plan ......................................................................18 COVID-19 ............................................................................20 @AustLogistics Key Policy & Advocacy Achievements ................................22 Key Safety Achievements ....................................................24 linkedin.com/company/australian-logistics-council Appendix .............................................................................26 Policies ..........................................................................27 Suite 17B, National Press Club Building Submissions ..................................................................27 16 National Circuit, BARTON, ACT 2611 P: +61 2 6273 0755 Media Releases .............................................................28 E: [email protected] Financials .......................................................................30 www.austlogistics.com.au © Australian Logistics Council, March 2021 2 3 ABOUT US ALCALC MEMBERS MEMBERS The Australian Logistics Council (ALC) is the peak national body representing major companies participating in the freight logistics CorporateCorporate Membersmembers industry. ALC’s policy focus is on delivering enhanced end-to-end supply chain efficiency and safety. AssociatesAssociates The broad industry experience of our members gives ALC a unique capacity to proactively The broad industry experience advocate on a wide-range of policy matters, and means we are recognised as an authoritative of our members gives ALC a industry voice by governments and the media unique capacity to proactively alike. advocate on a wide-range The interests of ALC’s members are interests shared by all Australians - because we all have of policy matters. an interest as consumers, customers, businesses and employees in creating more efficient and safe supply chains to reduce unnecessary A practical, nationally consistent approach to costs, strengthen our economy and improve the regulation that avoids wasteful duplication and National Sponsors Strategic Partners liveability of our communities. the imposition of needless costs on freight National sponsors Strategic partners logistics operators is a key aim of ALC advocacy. ALC works with governments at all levels to ensure they consider freight logistics in their All of ALC’s advocacy activities are underpinned approach to infrastructure investment planning by a desire to reduce the human and economic and other policy decisions that will contribute costs of unsafe industry practices by equipping to more efficient national supply chains which industry participants with the information and maximise benefits to the national economy. tools they need to meet their safety obligations. ResearchResearch &and Universities universities HonoraryHonorary Fellows fellows Andrew Ethell, March 2017 Paul Little AO, February 2011 Don Telford, March 2016 Peter Gunn AM, February 2011 Ingilby Dickson, March 2015 Ivan Backman AM, May 2010 LastLast updated updated November March 20202020 Ian Murray AM, March 2012 David Williams OAM, May 2010 4 5 At the time of writing, we are seeing the roll out of Our long-term commitment and focus remains on the the first batch of vaccines, and we will slowly begin implementation of the National Freight and Supply the journey to a new normal. What is clear is that the Chain Strategy (NFSC) and ensuring governments MESSAGE future will not revert back to the past and the ALC will take an end-to-end and long term approach to work to retain some of the positive changes for our planning, including the protection of freight lands FROM members and supply chain industry. and critical infrastructure corridors. We will continue to track progress through our NFSC scorecard, The ALC Board has reviewed and updated the ALC ALC CHAIR, and hold governments accountable to a process of Strategy in the last quarter of 2020, incorporating continuous improvement. Philip Davies some of the progress and opportunities presented by the pandemic. COVID-19 has tested our individual and corporate technologies. The ALC, through the technology Safety remains as our number one priority, and committee, will continue to work with members on I would like to take this opportunity to thank the reviewing and benchmarking our performance against secretariat and the safety committee for their ongoing international supply chain sustainability practices. leadership and focus on the safety of our supply chains and industry. As we continue our transition to the new normal, ALC will return to holding hybrid events, and providing Our producers, exporters and importers have the opportunities to connect policy makers and our experienced significant disruptions to air freight members to continue to lead the dialogue on those during 2020 and the Federal Government had to issues and priorities your business needs. step in with the International Freight Assistance Mechanism, established in Austrade, to support our On behalf of the ALC Board, I would like to thank industry and producers. This has amplified the critical you for your continued support, and the critical work Who would have thought at the beginning of 2020 role we play in supporting Australian producers in your organisations do keeping Australia moving, and that we would be ending the year, with many of our The ALC has played a key the export of high-value produce to markets in South supporting the economic growth of our regions and communities in lockdown, using computer screens role through 2020, working East Asia and beyond. Delivering high quality produce cities. We will continue to work hard on your behalf as the main means of communicating with our and world leading provenance so valued by those in 2021 to ensure the heightened awareness of with all governments to customers, colleagues and suppliers, and that supply markets. ALC will use this platform to work with Australia’s supply chains remains as a priority to our keep borders open and chains would have finally, and rightly, become a topic government and members, throughout the policy makers and appreciated by the communities being discussed at the family barbeque. operationally efficient for end-to-end supply chains, to support the export and we serve. our industry. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact import of produce across Australia. I look forward to working with you all in achieving that on our every-day lives and the ways in which we think objective. about our communities, our health and the places we work. The ALC has played a key role through 2020, working with all governments to keep borders open and Philip Davies, Chair operationally efficient for our industry, in removing the burden of curfews on the delivery of consumer goods Australian Logistics Council. and essential services and most importantly, having our teams classified as essential workers. 6 7 The pressure on supply chains was immediate and ALC staunchly advocated the essential nature of all extraordinary. But it had a significant and early freight in direct discussions with ministers and in positive for our industry. Conversations with Federal roundtable/plenary sessions convened by ministers. MESSAGE Minister for Home Affairs, the Hon Peter Dutton, MP, ALC’s position was that governments should avoid showed the Commonwealth was acutely aware of the lengthy lists of what was or was not essential freight, FROM CEO, risk to the social fabric of Australian communities if or which freight-related tasks and personnel should grocery shortages were not addressed as a matter of be deemed as essential workers. We submitted that Kirk Coningham, urgency. a broad application of the exemption would allow industry to appropriately prioritise movements and The Minister stood up a national taskforce enlisting minimise disruptions. OAM the wisdom of supermarket CEOs and other senior executives in the initial twice weekly meetings. The The Commonwealth quickly agreed to this approach, ALC joined the senior leadership team dedicated to which greatly assisted ALC’s direct engagement with monitoring and immediately responding to shortages state and territory governments, some of whom were as they emerged. initially inclined to pursue a prescriptive, list-based, approach. The response from our industry shaped the reaction from governments throughout the crisis. The calm, focused, leadership demonstrated by the taskforce showed the industry at its best – effectively winning Recognising the potential this the unambiguous support and trust of governments at all levels. would have for disruption, ALC converted this good will into practical policy. ALC identified and pursued Australia closed its borders on 20 March. This was three overarching policy quickly followed by the closure of several state and imperatives that were It will be a rare 2020 annual report