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03/09/2026

Global Freight Update: September 2026 🌍

Peak season pricing is holding at high altitude, and carriers are cutting capacity to keep it there.

🌊 Ocean Freight
Drewry's World Container Index held at US$4,465 per 40ft on 3 September. Shanghai to Los Angeles rose 5 per cent to US$7,185 and Shanghai to New York 3 per cent to US$9,587, while Shanghai to Rotterdam fell 5 per cent to US$4,092. Carriers are lining up Golden Week blank sailings on both lanes and Panama Canal transits drop to 32 a day later this month. Drewry expects the Transpacific to hold and Asia to Europe to keep easing.

✈️ Air Freight
Xeneta's July global average spot rate was US$3.12 per kg, 28 per cent above last year but 6 per cent down on June, with almost no interest in peak season charters. Rates are expected to keep easing through Q4.

⛽ Fuel
The full 53.7 cents per litre excise has applied since 3 August. Terminal gate diesel sat around 237 cents per litre in the eastern capitals on 2 September, down from about 245 a fortnight ago. The FWC fuel cost recovery obligations remain non-operative while the TWU and ARTIO trigger variation is still before the Commission.

📦 What this means
✔️ Budget on Transpacific rates staying high through Q4. Asia to Europe is the lane to push on price.
✔️ Golden Week runs 1 to 7 October. Stock for November shelves needs bookings locked this week.
✔️ Build the restored excise into landed cost and check fuel levies moved with the diesel dip.
✔️ Watch the FWC fuel case. Any change hits transport levies fast.

At Bluestar Global Logistics (BGL), we're helping customers hold space, manage cost exposure and get Q4 stock moving on time.

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28/08/2026

Parcels. It’s coming.

But this isn’t simply about adding another service.

Behind the scenes, we’re building the infrastructure to do it properly, brand-new modern facilities, a truly national network and end-to-end visibility powered by the latest technology.

Every parcel. Every movement. More visibility. More control.

We’ve built networks before. We understand what it takes to deliver at scale.
Now we’re building it again — the Bluestar way.

The pieces are coming together, and we are nearing the finish line!!!

Not long now.

Stay tuned.

26/08/2026

Count the companies that touch your freight between the factory floor and your customer.

A forwarder at origin. A customs broker. A wharf carrier. A 3PL. A linehaul operator. A local delivery fleet. Six providers, and every join between them is where visibility drops, margin leaks and accountability gets fuzzy.

When something breaks, fragmentation turns a two-hour fix into a two-day email chain. Nobody owns the outcome. Everybody owns a segment.

The cost never shows up as a line item. It shows up as your operations team playing traffic controller, as stock arriving late without warning, as three different invoices with three different fuel levies nobody can reconcile.

Consolidating with fewer partners is a commercial decision, and the case is strongest for businesses moving freight across states or borders every week. One operations team seeing the whole chain finds problems while they are still cheap.

At Bluestar Global Logistics (BGL), forwarding, customs clearance, warehousing and national transport run under one roof. Since 1987, that has been the point.

How many providers currently touch your freight between origin and your customer?

20/08/2026

THE NETWORK IS TAKING SHAPE.

This isn’t just about delivering parcels.

It’s about building a new national parcel network from the ground up — backed by brand-new modern infrastructure, the latest technology and real-time visibility across the journey.

National reach. Smarter infrastructure. Total visibility.

We’ve built it before.

Now we’re building it again — the Bluestar way.

More to come.

19/08/2026

Global Freight Update: August 2026 🌍

The 16 cent fuel excise cut ended on 2 August. Domestic transport costs moved within days, and ocean rates have started climbing again on the Transpacific.

⛽ Fuel
Full excise resumed at 53.7 cents per litre from 3 August. Average retail diesel across the five largest capitals sat at 241.6 cents per litre in the week to 12 August, with terminal gate prices at 230.7 cents. Terminal gate is up 6.5 cents since the excise reset even after a softer week on global crude. Carrier levies have already followed. DFE is publishing 44 per cent across Brisbane, Sydney and Adelaide, its highest since April.

⚖️ Fuel cost recovery
Worth correcting a common assumption. The Fair Work Commission's fuel cost recovery obligations under the Road Transport Contractual Chain Order stopped applying on 7 June when diesel fell below $2 per litre. As the order currently stands, they do not switch back on now that diesel has passed $2.30. The TWU has applied to change that trigger.

🌊 Ocean Freight
Drewry's World Container Index rose 1 per cent to US$4,339 per 40ft container on 13 August, 85 per cent higher than this time last year. The movement is all Transpacific. Shanghai to Los Angeles climbed 6 per cent to US$6,244 and Shanghai to New York jumped 10 per cent to US$8,706, while Asia to Europe softened with Shanghai to Rotterdam down 5 per cent to US$4,425.

✈️ Air Freight
Global average spot rates eased to US$2.95 per kg in the week to 9 August, still around 22 per cent above last year. Xeneta reports almost no shipper interest in peak season charters, pointing to a softer second half.

📦 What this means
✔️ Build the higher fuel base into your landed cost now. The excise reset is a permanent step up in cost.
✔️ Review any contract that references FWC fuel cost recovery. The obligations are not currently operative.
✔️ Book Transpacific early. Rates are rising and capacity is being pulled.
✔️ Air has room to negotiate for time critical cargo through the back half of the year.

At Bluestar Global Logistics (BGL), we're helping customers plan bookings, manage cost exposure and keep freight moving through the back half of peak season.

13/08/2026

Parcels. It’s coming. The build is near completion!!!

We’ve built it before. We know what it takes. And now, we’re preparing to build it again.

Backed by brand-new, modern infrastructure across our national network, smart technology and end-to-end visibility designed to light up the network in real time, we’re building something for the future — not the past.

A new chapter for is taking shape.

National. Connected. Visible. Built to deliver.

Stay tuned. This is just the beginning.

05/08/2026

Christmas retail is decided in August.

Stock landing on Australian shelves in November is being ordered, packed and shipped over the next eight weeks. By the time the decorations go up, the freight decisions that shaped December were locked in months earlier.

The numbers make the stakes plain. Container rates are running roughly 60% higher than this time last year, and carriers are still pulling sailings to keep space tight. Importers who treat that as background noise find out about it in October, when stock gets rolled at origin.

The operators who have a calm December share one habit. They treat peak season freight as a forecasting problem and work it early with their forwarder. Firefighting in November is what happens when nobody did.

Volumes forecast by week. Bookings placed ahead of the rush. A backup plan agreed before anyone needs it.

At Bluestar Global Logistics (BGL), we build these plans with importers every winter, and the gap between planned and unplanned shows up on shelves in December.

How early does your business lock in its Christmas freight plan?

30/07/2026

Interstate freight is a chain of promises.

A pickup window in Melbourne. A linehaul departure. An arrival scan in Perth. A delivery window with your customer's name on it. Break one link and the whole promise breaks, usually in front of the person you least want to disappoint.

This is why we run our national network on presence. Bluestar Global Logistics (BGL) operates across all five mainland states with our own people, depots and fleet capability, connected by one operations team and one Track & Trace view from pickup to proof of delivery.

When a corridor closes, and in Australia one always does, rerouting happens inside our network. There's no waiting on a partner three handoffs away to answer the phone.

Since 1987 our formula has stayed the same. Relationships + Reliability = Results.

If interstate freight keeps landing on your desk as a problem, it might be time for a network that treats it as the job.

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22/07/2026

11,200 pallet locations. Installed in eight weeks. Inside a live warehouse.

Earlier this year we completed a major racking installation at one of our 3PL facilities, adding selective pallet racking with mesh decks and full rack protection across the site.

The build ran while the warehouse kept operating. Stock was backfilled as each section was handed over, and priority zones were brought online first so both client operations could start moving as early as possible.

Investment like this rarely makes headlines, and it decides what we can say yes to. Warehouse capacity is the difference between a 3PL partner who can absorb your growth and one who puts you on a waitlist.

We build ahead of demand so our customers never wait for space.

If your business is outgrowing its current warehousing setup, talk to us.

Big thanks to Premier Pallet Racking and BORACK | Warehouse Installations for bringing this to life.

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09/07/2026

Global Freight Update: July 2026 🌍

Peak season is here, and ocean rates are moving fast.

🌊 Ocean Freight
Drewry's World Container Index jumped 9% in the first week of July to US$4,530 per 40ft container. Blank sailings are tightening Transpacific capacity, and carriers are pushing peak season surcharges of up to US$3,000 per container from mid month.

✈️ Air Freight
The calmer story this month. Rates have levelled off, though the global benchmark still sits around 40% above this time last year.

⛽ Fuel
Relief at home. Terminal gate diesel is back under $2 per litre and the 16 cent excise cut runs through July. The FWC's fuel cost recovery order has lapsed, with a decision on reinstatement due soon.

📦 What this means
Book ocean freight early. Rates are climbing week on week and space is no longer guaranteed.
Air is worth pricing for urgent cargo
Watch the FWC decision on fuel surcharge obligations

At Bluestar Global Logistics (BGL), we're helping our customers secure space early, manage cost exposure and keep freight moving through the peak.

If you have freight moving in the next eight weeks, now is the time to lock in your plan.

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