2025 Workforce Plans
Lifting Transport Supply Chain productivity through skills
Building Australia’s future-ready Transport Supply Chain workforce
Industry Skills Australia (ISA) has released the 2025 Workforce Plans for the nation’s Aviation, Maritime, Rail, Transport & Logistics industries.
This year’s Plans have a newfound importance. With productivity now firmly in the national spotlight, a more skilled and efficient transport supply chain workforce will help every industry that depends on the movement of goods to become more competitive and profitable.
What’s in the Plans?
Developed through extensive research and national consultation, each Plan combines the latest workforce data with grassroots intelligence from employers, unions, industry organisations, training providers, industry regulators, and government representatives.
Shaped by the Strategic Workforce Planning Committee for each industry and prepared by ISA, each Workforce Plan includes:
- A detailed snapshot of the current workforce
- Analysis of current and emerging workforce challenges
- Practical, forward-thinking actions to address priority workforce issues.
Why they matter
The scale of upskilling and reskilling needed to support the workforce through rapid change sits beyond the remit or resources of any single organisation. It demands coordinated effort and genuine collaboration across industry, governments, unions, and the training system.
The Workforce Plans provide a clear, shared roadmap to guide that collaboration – ensuring Australia’s transport supply chain industries remain productive, resilient and ready for the future.
Download the Workforce Plans
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We want to hear from you
Industry Skills Australia invites you to provide feedback on current and emerging workforce challenges and priorities, as well as the high-impact solutions you would like to see in place for your industry.
Your feedback will assist us in shaping our current program of work, and future development of the 2026 Workforce Plans.
If you have any queries or would like to provide feedback on any of the Workforce Plans, please contact our Industry Engagement Managers:
| Aviation | Mori Hajizadeh | 0400 737 983 |
| Maritime | Anna Jerrems | 0459 031 101 |
| Rail | Carly Grigg | 0456 360 785 |
| Transport and Logistics | Camilla Elmes | 0484 821 888 |