Australia in this industry is a smaller port-adjacent network at Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane, plus a separate cold chain and a regional store network. It is not a U.S. inland-empire fulfillment market. A China stop removes China-linked trade from the port sheds. The container table does not say how many of those TEU are China-origin. Domestic store replenishment continues on the labor that is already employed.
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In 2024-25 the five container ports exchanged 9,118,980 TEU. Melbourne was 3,385,743, Sydney 2,814,905, Brisbane 1,619,956, Fremantle 885,720, and Adelaide 412,656. Melbourne was 37.1 percent of the five-port total, calculated from 3,385,743 and 9,118,980. The yearbook chapter rounds the same five terminals to 9.1 million TEU. The table is not an origin split. Sources on the sheet are BITRE Waterline 71, forthcoming, and BITRE estimates.
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Warehousing labor is a sector inside a larger division, and the sectors are not a firm census. Jobs and Skills Australia, February 2026 trend, prints Warehousing and Storage Services employment at 122,300. Road Freight Transport, which is not warehousing, is 201,400. The division Transport, Postal and Warehousing is 754,500. The workbook says the sum of sectoral employment may not equal the industry total because the series are trended separately and not-further-defined classes are excluded.
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The handling occupation is larger than the warehousing sector because storepersons also work in retail and wholesale. Storepersons employed 166,600 people in their main job. The overview box prints a median of 1,328 dollars. Part-time share is 32 percent. The page lists Transport, Postal and Warehousing, Retail Trade, and Wholesale Trade, and it suppresses industries under 5 percent. It does not print the three shares. State shares, February 2026 trend, are New South Wales 30.8 percent, Victoria 30.4 percent, and Queensland 20.7 percent. Those three figures are not added here.
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Space starts full and the leases are multi-year. In the Goodman FY26 results, the Australia column of the total portfolio table is A$35.3 billion, 184 properties, occupancy of 96 percent, and a weighted average lease expiry of 4.6 years. Footnote 2 says occupancy and lease expiry are partnership industrial and warehouse assets and exclude properties earmarked for sale or redevelopment. GMG co-investment on that column is 30.0 percent and A$9.0 billion. Partnership gearing on the column is 19.3 percent and weighted average debt expiry is 3.3 years.
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China exposure that is printed is national trade, and it is demand context, not warehouse revenue. DFAT says total two-way goods and services trade with China was $326 billion in 2025, representing 25 percent of Australia's total goods and services trade. Goods and services exports to China were $196 billion, representing 29 percent of exports. The page does not print goods-only imports. A residual of 326 minus 196 is not a warehouse inbound figure and is not calculated.
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The short outage analog is a named logistics operator, not a national rent index. Toll Group was hit on 31 January 2020. On 18 March 2020 iTnews reported that core services had returned to normal for the majority of customers, more than six weeks after the Mailto ransomware attack. The calculated span is 47 days from 31 January 2020 to 18 March 2020. An ACS account in that window says logistics warehouse operations around the world were among the activities described as essentially normal, and that the shutdown involved up to 500 applications across 25 countries.
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China trade stopping removes the China-linked piece of Australian goods and services trade. That piece is demand context: $326 billion and 25 percent of Australia's total goods and services trade in 2025, with exports of $196 billion and 29 percent of exports. The container sheds feel that stop only to the extent the unpublished origin mix of the 9,118,980 TEU was China. The TEU table does not print the mix.
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East-coast container doors keep a counted exchange even before any origin is known. Melbourne was 3,385,743 TEU, Sydney 2,814,905, and Brisbane 1,619,956 in 2024-25. The yearbook chapter states 9.1 million TEU at Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Fremantle, and Adelaide. Non-China origins are inside those totals and are not separately printed.
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Regional store replenishment is a labor fact, not a second port. Storepersons receive, handle, and despatch goods in stores and warehouses. Employed 166,600. New South Wales is 30.8 percent, Victoria 30.4 percent, and Queensland 20.7 percent of that occupation. Retail Trade and Wholesale Trade are listed beside Transport, Postal and Warehousing, so the occupation is not a pure 3PL headcount.
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The building starts occupied and leased out. Goodman Australia occupancy of 96 percent and a weighted average lease expiry of 4.6 years mean the rent roll does not reset when a ship misses a berth. Partnership gearing on the Australia column is 19.3 percent and weighted average debt expiry is 3.3 years. Those are the lender prints on the page. A covenant floor was not extracted.
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The week-1 break inside the operator is the logistics system. Toll took systems offline after the 31 January 2020 attack. A notice dated 19 February, reported by ACS, still had MyToll coming back, while warehouse operations were described as essentially normal for many customers. By 18 March 2020 core services had returned to normal for the majority, and MyToll bookings and track-and-trace were operational. The calculated span is 47 days. The printed phrase on that date is more than six weeks.
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Cold chain is named as a separate network because the port TEU table is dry and reefer boxes counted together as TEU, and no cold-storage occupancy or pallet series was on the pages opened. Goodman occupancy of 96 percent is industrial and warehouse assets in the footnote, not a cold-chamber census. This note does not import a cold-storage vacancy from any other industry file.
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