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15/10/2026

Parcel Deliveries. Made Easy with BGL. 📦

Your cartons sorted fast, with visibility at every scan nationwide.

Get started at 👉 bluestarglobal.com.au/contact-us

13/10/2026

With Christmas peak fast approaching, is your parcel network ready?🎄📦

We’ve recently invested in new parcel sortation technology and increased capacity across Australia to help keep your freight moving through peak and beyond.

Whether you need peak support, overflow capacity or an ongoing parcel solution, our team is here to help.

Let’s get your peak plan sorted 👉 https://bluestarglobal.com.au/contact-us/

01/10/2026

Global Freight Update: October 2026 🌍

October opens with two pressures for Australian shippers: diesel still near its highs, and Golden Week closing factories across China until 7 October.

⛽ Fuel at home
Terminal gate diesel sat between $2.63 and $2.67 per litre across the eastern capitals on 30 September, with Perth at $2.57. That is off the peak of $2.75 in the week to 23 September but still well above early September levels, with the Middle East conflict keeping refined diesel benchmarks high. The Fair Work Commission has declined to switch its fuel cost recovery obligations back on, so for now recovery runs on whatever your transport contracts say.

🚢 The Australia lane
Shanghai to Australia spot rates were around US$2,432 per TEU in early September and climbing into the pre-Golden Week rush. Carriers have pulled capacity on the trade through suspended services and blank sailings, and some rotations into Sydney and Fremantle are running well behind schedule. Space either side of Golden Week is the tightest of the quarter. Bookings restart from 8 October and the fortnight after fills fast.

🌏 The wider market
Drewry's World Container Index eased 1 per cent to US$4,468 per 40ft on 24 September. The Transpacific stayed firm at US$7,838 Shanghai to Los Angeles while Asia to Europe kept sliding, down 4 per cent to US$3,485 into Rotterdam. Air freight averaged US$3.13 per kg globally in August, 24 per cent above last year and easing slowly, with demand into Australia up 7 per cent.

📦 What this means
✔️ Lock post-Golden Week sailings this week. November shelf dates depend on the 8 to 20 October window.
✔️ Check your fuel levies both ways. They should reflect the September spike and ease as terminal gate prices come off the peak.
✔️ With FWC obligations dormant, fuel recovery is a contract question. Know your terms.
✔️ Build buffer into November delivery promises where your service is running behind rotation.

At Bluestar Global Logistics (BGL), we're helping customers hold space on the Australia trade and manage fuel exposure through peak season.

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23/09/2026

Grand Final week is here.

Brisbane are chasing three in a row. Fremantle are chasing their first ever flag. One of those stories finishes with a premiership on Saturday afternoon at the MCG.

Whoever you're backing, enjoy every minute of it. From all of us at Bluestar, have a great long weekend.

10/09/2026

The last realistic sailing for Christmas stock is closer than the calendar suggests.

Count backwards from a November shelf date. Distribution to stores takes a week or more. Receiving and putaway at the DC takes another. Customs clearance and wharf transport add days, more if anything gets inspected. Ocean transit from Asia runs two to four weeks depending on port and routing. Then add Golden Week in early October, when many factories in China shut down and bookings pile up either side of it.

Work it through honestly and mid October sailings are the last comfortable window for pre-Christmas stock, and space around Golden Week is already selling.

Carriers are managing capacity hard this peak season, with blank sailings still coming out of the Transpacific schedule. A booking made this fortnight beats a premium rate chased in October.

At Bluestar Global Logistics (BGL), our forwarding team is locking Q4 sailings with customers now, with clearance and delivery planned in the same conversation.

If Christmas stock is still sitting on a purchase order, this is the fortnight to move. 📧 [email protected]

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.

📧 [email protected]

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.

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