Transport, postal and warehousing: company insolvencies in Australia
In Transport, postal and warehousing, 813 companies entered external administration in 2025-26, 5.7% of the year's total.
That was up 10.8% on 2024-25.
Source: ASIC, Australian insolvency statistics, Series 1, retrieved 26 Oct 2026. Grouped by industry and summarised by onestepright. No company is named. Series 1 to 4 Oct 2026, released 19 Oct 2026. Series 3.1 to 2024-25. Both change as ASIC publishes.
ASIC's statistics are not exhaustive. They are based on the information available to ASIC at the time of publication.
In 2024-25, administrators' reports in Transport, postal and warehousing most often named poor strategic management of business (55.2%) and inadequate cash flow or high cash use (54.0%).
- Poor strategic management of business: 55.2%
- Inadequate cash flow or high cash use: 54.0%
- Poor financial control including lack of records: 51.1%
- Other: 38.4%
- Trading losses: 38.2%
- Under capitalisation: 24.1%
- Poor economic conditions: 15.5%
- Poor management of accounts receivable: 9.8%
- Dispute among directors: 2.5%
- Fraud: 1.6%
- Business restructuring: 1.0%
- Industry restructuring: 1.0%
- Natural disaster: 0.6%
- DOCA failed: 0.2%
Source: ASIC, Australian insolvency statistics, Series 3.1, retrieved 26 Oct 2026. Grouped by industry and summarised by onestepright. No company is named. Series 1 to 4 Oct 2026, released 19 Oct 2026. Series 3.1 to 2024-25. Both change as ASIC publishes.
See business exits in Transport, postal and warehousing, every business that stopped trading, from ABS data.
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