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BIFA says its is backing a call by the Global Sjhippers' forum to end seafreightsurcharges. “Forwarders do not like shipping line surcharges and we have been challenging their legitimacy on behalf of our members – and their customers – for many years,” explained director general, Robert Keen.
Forwarders do all they can to minimise the effects of the surcharges but in the end at least some of the costs need to ...
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British International Freight Association (BIFA) director general, Robert Keen is urging the new transport secretary and new secretary of state for international trade Government to stop procrastinating over the expansion of UK aviation capacity “and move forward with the recommendations made by the Airports Commission by building more capacity at ...
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The British International Freight Association - www.bifa.org - is seeking entries for its 28th annual Freight Service Awards competition.
Sponsored by blue chip companies, winning one of the 11 awards has become more coveted year-on-year. The deadline for entry registration is 23 September, with written submissions due by 7 October.
The awards ...
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BIFA asays it is concerned that the UK's political turmoil will lead to further procrastination. Director general Robert Keen said that following the earlier postponement of a decsion in December to, allegedly, summer 2016, , “with last week's developments, we are now entering a period of great uncertainty on the ...
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The British International Freight Association (BIFA) has added its voice to growing criticism of government plans to build a huge lorry park in Kent as an alternative solution to Operation Stack. It said that the government had not clearly demonstrated what options have been evaluated and that the decision to ...
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The British International Freight Association is urging freight forwarders not to be complacent about new Verified Gross Mass (VGM) rules, despite a recent IMO circular urging ‘practical and pragmatic' enforcement by authorities in the first three months after 1 July.
BIFA director general Robert Keen, director general said the grace period ...
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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 ...
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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.
BIFA ...
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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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