Business Employer-Led Education
A career option in logistics is invisible at GCSE level and existing courses aren’t addressing the skills employers say they need. We discuss why employer-led education for future logistics professionals, is a good idea, and how it’s well underway for the Liverpool City Region. Kirsty Adams reports.
Logistics isn’t
exciting. Says who?
ogistics just isn’t exciting, and it isn’t really a career. It’s a low level service provision for more important functions. Right? There is no career progression. It’s not even that valuable to the economy. It’s an industry full of middle-aged white men. And it’s a bit grubby, isn’t it? Except for the part about middle-aged white men, and maybe the bit about career progression, the above is far from the truth. But it is how our industry is perceived by young people, according to industry employers trying to recruit bright young talent. The pool of skills available in the logistics sector is shrinking. Partly due to its poor image, which so far we’ve failed to adapt. We have a good case against it
L 20 September 2014
-– because logistics is incredibly exciting. SKILLS FOR LIVERPOOL
One of the UK’s largest logistics hubs, which will change the shape of the UK supply chain, right now, is Liverpool’s SuperPort. SuperPort is the key to rebalancing the UK economy, according to Bernard Malloy, Unipart’s global industrial logistics director and chair of the Liverpool City Region SuperPort Committee. Large investments are being ploughed into Liverpool City Region’s SuperPort which includes a new deep water container facility for two 13,500 TEU ships. In total, £1bn of infrastructure investment is underway. Crucially the new terminal is future proofed and will have the capability to take the Triple E class vessels when demand dictates. In 2015 the new £350 million
www.shdlogistics.com
‘Liverpool2’ deep water container terminal will go-live, opening up access to a market of over 19 million people within 100 miles of Liverpool, under two hours by road. The SuperPort sector faces a severe challenge through an ageing workforce. Many occupations (e.g. drivers, warehouse managers) will have to meet high levels of growth demand on top of high levels of replacement demand. Better promotion of the sector to young people is key in meeting this demographic challenge.
AN INVISIBLE FIELD
Show me a 16 year old who is aware that a career supporting this future-proof SuperPort even exists? There is an acute lack of awareness, of careers in the transport, logistics and supply chain sectors. Young people don’t
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