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BIFA director general Robert Keen said on 8 August that members still face significant problems at the port of Felixstowe despite a statement by the owners that its recently introduced new terminal operating system is now ‘stable’.
He said that shipping lines continue to cancel calls or operating a cut-and-run policy, where the ship leaves before all containers that are booked are loaded, or discharged.
Members are also experiencing knock-on effects at ...
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Olympic golden girl Dame Kelly Holmes is to host next year’s BIFA Freight Service Awards.
Entries to the awards, which are now in their 30th year, are now open and director general, Robert Keen says that any company looking to go for gold in these awards can have no finer example ...
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Susanne Oud has joined the BIFA board of directors, replacing Roy Baker who has stepped down having been on the trade association's Board since 2005. She is a director of member company, OIA Global, based at the company’s head office in London. Born in Perth, Australia, she emigrated from Australia ...
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BIFA said it had “mixed feelings” about the Brexit White Paper, published on 13 July.
Director general Robert Keen said it “ addresses some of the issues that BIFA has highlighted over the past two years, including retaining something as close to the Single Market and Customs Union as is possible, ...
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The remaining seminars on the new CDS computer system organised by HMRC, software firm ASM and BIFA are oversubscribed but more are planned in Heathrow, Southampton and Felixstowe
Hundreds of logistics businesses have been attending the roadshow to get up to speed on the new Customs Declaration Service coming into force ...
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BIFA has warned that freight forwarders that suffered operational problems and incurred additional costs as a result of the disruption at the port of Felixstowe due to problems with a new IT system were unlikely to receive any compensation from the port’s owners.
Director general Robert Keen said: “Having had a ...
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BIFA director-general Robert Keen has sounded a note of caution over the recent vote by MPs in favour of a third Heathrow runway. He said: “Whilst BIFA welcomes the positive news from Parliament…the obstacles that the project still faces leave me with a certain sense of foreboding whether the spades ...
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Speaking ahead of 25 June’s parliamentary vote on the National Policy Statement for Heathrow expansion, BIFA director general Robert Keen said he hoped it would “see the end of years of procrastination over the expansion of UK aviation capacity, with the UK Parliament voting in favour of a new runway ...
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HMRC’s 1980s-vintage Chief computer system has served the trade well in the quarter century since it was introduced in 1994, but now is the time to move on, BIFA policy and compliance advisor Pawel Jarza told a seminar on its replacement, CDS (Customs Declaration Service). The Union Customs Code (UCC), ...
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The Cabinet has approved plans for a third runway at Heathrow, paving the way for a vote by MPs on the controversial issue. However, a positive outcome can by no means be relied on.
Many MPs, along with one Cabinet Member, foreign secretary Boris Johnson, are vehemently opposed to the scheme, ...
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