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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 Group; Unsworth Global Logistics; Transglobal Freight Management; PSL Freight; Panalpina World Transport; Kuehne + Nagel; and, Moto Freight.
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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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Truckers’ friend Sally Boazman is to host the British International Freight Association’s Freight Service Awards 2015 Ceremony in London next year. Better known to drivers the length and breadth of Britain as ‘Sally Traffic’, her BBC Radio 2 travel reports have helped keep the country moving since she became the ...
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BIFA is organising a conference on 26 November to bring together its members, HMRC and other stakeholders to discuss the impending changes, together with an assessment of the current situation concerning the EU’s Authorised Economic Operator (AEO) programme.
The conference will also discuss the new container weighing rules.
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The European Commission says that its long-awaited and heavily delayed Union Customs Code will come into force on 1 May next year. It aims to usher in “a simpler, more modern and integrated EU customs system to support cross-border trade and provide for more EU-wide cooperation in customs matters. The ...
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The British International Freight Association's annual Freight Service Awards competition is now open for entries.
All of the category sponsors from last year are supporting the awards once again, and they are joined by two new sponsors supporting two new categories. The Cool Award is open to providers of specialist refrigerated ...
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With the Chancellor due to unveil his emergency budget tomorrow, (Weds 8 July), British International Freight Association (BIFA) chief Robert Keen is calling for real investment in UK logistics.
While road traffic - passenger and freight - has surged over the past three decades, the capacity of the network has scarcely ...
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Fred Osborn is to succeed Carson McMullan as British International Freight Association (BIFA) national chairman, with Mark Bromley becoming vice chairman. Osborn has been the co-owner of X-Pand International Freight since 2000 and has been BIFA's vice chairman for the past two years and was previously chair of BIFA's air ...
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A surge in illegal immigrants trying to stow away on trucks passing at Calais Eurotunnel terminal and ferry port could put cross channel trailer services at risk, says BIFA.
Director general Robert Keen says that the trade association’s members - who tend to be truck hirers, rather than operators says: ...
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