The Sunshine Coast region serves as a vibrant hub for tourism, hospitality, retail, construction, education, health services, and creative sectors. The unparelled population increase since 2020 has created an opportunistic environment for business entrepreneurs and established companies to thrive and explore new ways of reaching customers, bending retail activites with online stores offering shipping Australia-wide and to international destinations.

For small and medium Sunshine Coast businesses easy access to freight and shipping lanes has opened-up excellent freight service delivery opportunities. The Coast’s close proximity to major transportation routes, notably the Bruce Highway, ensures convenient access to key locations in Queensland such as Brisbane to Mackay, Rockhampton, Gladstone and Cairns, south to the Gold Coast and even access to fast connection highways out west to Ipswich and the major freight hub high on the Toowoomba range.

The region’s well-established infrastructure and transportation links contribute to the ease of delivery on the Sunshine Coast. Smooth road networks and access to reliable courier services help businesses to quickly send and receive shipments, both within the region and beyond. Making it even easier to organise sending and receiving freight is the One World Courier freight booking platform, which connects Sunshine Coast courier companies to deliver in and around the Sunshine Coast as well as further afield to every corner of Australia and the world.

Calculating freight delivery times is all part of the One World Courier Freight Management Platform functionality. For those who wish to familiarise themeselves with the distance freight can travel, the Sunshine Coast is approximately 100 kilometres north of Brisbane CBD. Moving fast freight from the Sunshine Coast to Townsville means a travel of approximately 1,200 kilometres via the Bruce Highway and can be covered within 13-14 hours by road freight operations.

 The distance from the Sunshine Coast to Rockhampton is approximately 720 kilometres and can be covered in around 8 hours. The distance to Mackay is about 1,000 kilometres and can be reached in approximately 11 hours, whereas the coastal city of Gladstone is roughly 580 kilometres away and will take about 6 or 7 hours depending on road conditions. Although there is a dedicated road network along the Bruce Highway, given the undeveloped nature of the highway, accidents can occur, causing delays to some freight services. However, any road blockages are usual cleared fast, and freight services are rarely affected.