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Issue 8 2014 - Freight Business Journal
Young forwarder title goes to South Africa
Miss Fortunate Nompumelelo Mboweni of South Africa won the 2014 Young International Freight Forwarder of the Year Award, presented at the FIATA Annual Congress in Istanbul on 21 October. She was chosen from a shortlist of four finalists; the others were The four regional finalists who proudly represented the future of the international freight forwarding industry in Istanbul were Douglas Whitlock of Canada; Saiful Ridhwan Bin Zulkifli, Singapore; and Christian Hensen, Germany. The process began earlier
this year when entrants from all over the world submitted papers about a wide variety of transport and logistics projects, ranging
BIFA unveils Freight Service Awards shortlist
The British International Freight Association (BIFA) has revealed the finalists of the 26th BIFA Freight Service Awards. The winners will be revealed at a luncheon to on Thursday 22 January 2015 at The Brewery, Chiswell Street, London, EC1. Tickets are available from the BIFA Awards website:
www.bifa.org/awards
Environment Award, sponsored by Red Recruit: Atlantic Pacific Global Logistics; Freight Systems Express (Wales); Samskip; Uniserve Group
Project Forwarding Award, sponsored by Peter Lole & Co: Arbour Shipping; Greenshields Cowie & Co; Panalpina World Transport; Sound Moves (UK)
Special Services Award, sponsored by Forward Computers: James Cargo Services; Schenker; Uniserve Group; UTi Worldwide (UK)
Staff Development Award, sponsored by Albacore Systems: Customs Clearance; Schenker; Unsworth Global Logistics; Woodland Group
Supply Chain Management Award, sponsored by BoxTop Technologies:
Allport Cargo Services; MIQ Logistics; RIF Worldwide; Uniserve Group
Air Freight Award, sponsored by IAG Cargo: Brunel Shipping & Liner Services (London); DSV Air & Sea; MOL Logistics (UK); Uniserve Group
European Logistics Award, sponsored by TT Club: Brunel Shipping & Liner Services (London); Damco UK; Freightex; UFS
Ocean Freight Award, sponsored by Cargoguide International: Brunel Shipping & Liner Services (London); Estuary Logistics; Moto Freight; Westbound Shipping Services
Young Freight Forwarder Award, sponsored by Virgin Atlantic Cargo: Jefferson Inniss, Hellmann Worldwide Logistics; Jenifer Taylor, Santova Logistics; Charlotte Wild, Tudor International Freight; Kathy Wood, Moto Freight.
from the transportation of tunnel drilling equipment to Bolivia to the delivery of a catamaran in Indonesia and from a project moving radioactive isotopes from South Africa to Namibia to
the expedited deployment of a Disaster Assistance Response Team in the Philippines. The awards, now in their 16th
year, are sponsored by London- based insurers, the TT Club.
///NEWS
Ready to welcome giants of the sea
Associated British Ports Southampton says it is ready to handle the biggest ships in the world aſter completion of its £40million dredging project. Ships with a draught of up to 15.5m – the biggest container vessels currently in service – can now access the port’s container terminal. The
dredging at is container the final
piece of the project to enhance capability operated
the DP World- terminal.
The SCT 5 berth has a 500m long deep-water quay and is purpose
built to cater for the largest ships in the world. As well as deep- water access, it is also equipped
with the latest cranes, capable of reaching across vessels 24 containers wide.
Study urges caution on cabotage
A study by the European Parliament calls for more harmonisation of social and work conditions in road transport before allowing further liberalisation of road cabotage. Without it, there is a serious risk that the success of hauliers would depend not on their efficiency, but their ability to get access, legally or illegally, to the most favourable
labour provisions, says the report, which was presented to the Transport Committee on 3 November. It points out that the wide variation in drivers’ employment and work conditions in the EU has led to a spate of ‘letterbox companies’ and false self-employment conditions for drivers. Opening up of cabotage should be a gradual, managed
process where liberalisation
and harmonisation of the rules are carried out together says the reporting adding that more effort should be made to fight fraud and ensuring that rules are obeyed. The report says that more liberalisation
thorough of
road haulage would however improve efficiency and cut transport costs.
Calm before the storm
The European road freight sector endured another year of weak growth and anaemic profits, according to the latest market report from Transport Intelligence (Ti), European Road Freight Transport 2014. Overall growth was just 1.0% in
2013, weighed down by stagnation in the Eurozone. Only markets in Central and Eastern Europe prospered, with Poland, the largest market
in the region growing
by 5.8%. The UK was the best performing of the larger markets in Western Europe, with growth of 2.0% mostly due to its economic recovery. Across Europe operating
margins remained low, hampered by weak volumes. UK hauliers had the best margins, but at 2.5% they were hardly exciting. However, according to one of the
report’s authors, Ti analyst David Buckby, the stagnation disguises a
looming upheaval in the industry. Increasing automation of trucks, liberalisation of cabotage and environmental
legislation will
create new challenges and opportunities for the industry. New technologies and increased access to domestic markets by lower cost operators, especially those based in Central and Eastern Europe will result in a root and branch change to the road freight market environment.
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