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The British International Freight Association (BIFA) is carrying out a survey to find out what sort of skill development the sector wants in advance of developing a professional qualification.
It has also appointed Carl Hobbis, formerly in charge of public relations at DB Schenker, as training development manager.
Hobbis explained that BIFA is first planning to survey its members and the forwarding industry in general to find out what they are looking ...
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The UK's international trade continued to flow on 3 May despite the introduction of the first major changes to EU customs legislation in a quarter of a century, a BIFA expert told a Multimodal seminar.
Addressing a workshop session on the new Union Customs Code yesterday (Wednesday 11 May), Robert Windsor, ...
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The British International Freight Association (BIFA) notes that HMRC is placing more emphasis on compliance, with stricter enforcement the inevitable outcome.
VAT fraud is a particular concern is VAT fraud and the forthcoming Union Customs Code (UCC from 1 May includes legislation that can be used to tighten up certain regimes.
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The British International Freight Association (BIFA) has urged the Unite union and Forth Ports, the owner of Grangemouth port in Scotland to meet and quickly resolve their industrial dispute.
The current action has halted all shipside activity at the port's container terminal since Tuesday of this week. BIFA says the strike ...
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The British International Freight Association (BIFA) says that there was little in today's Budget that was relevant to the freight and logistics industries.
However, director general Robert Keen said he was concerned by Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne's warning that storm clouds are gathering over the global economy. “Any softening ...
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Two significant dates later this year will demonstrate the importance to forwarders of Authorised Economic Operator (AEO) status, says the British International Freight Association (BIFA).
The Union Customs Code (UCC) is being introduced across the European Union (EU) on 1 May. There will be a number of changes to how goods ...
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BIFA has formally wound up its mutual insurance arm. The company ceased to operate about 14 years ago and the latest move is to release final funds to shareholders. It was set up to provide deferment bonds for forwarders who became shareholders in the mutual company. At the time it ...
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The British International Freight Association (BIFA) revealed the winners of its Freight Service Awards competition 2015 at a ceremony in London on 21 January.
The winners of the ten General, Modal and Specialist categories in the awards were: Greenshields Cowie & Co; Dynamic International Freight Services; 512 (Sheffield); The Woodland ...
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BIFA sees a tough year ahead in 2016 with many of the difficulties caused by the government and the European Union rather than the economy.
Director general Robert Keen says two of the biggest impacts on freight forwarding will be implementation of the Union Customs Code and the new SOLAS rules ...
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BIFA (the British International Freight Association) has running further one-day conferences on important impending changes to freight legislation. They are at Middlesbrough on 8 December, Leeds on 9 December and Chelmsford on 28 January.
BIFA director general Robert Keen said that November's event had sold out.
The seminars will cover introduction ...
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