NEWS\\\


The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) - the professional body for people involved in freight, logistics and transport - is set to invigorate the sector a newly relaunched freight forwarding forum. It aims to raise the profile of


an industry which, although it employs an estimated 138,000 people nationwide, contributes over £13 billion to the economy and is an essential part of the nation’s


supply chain, is little


known outside its practitioners and customers. CILT’s involvement in the


sector dates back over a decade when


individual members


were transferred from the then Institute of Freight Forwarders (IFF), which was transformed into a trade association – the British International Freight Association (BIFA). Now, the new CILT Freight


Forwarding Forum aims to raise awareness of the freight forwarding sector, the value it adds to the nations supply chain and the professionalism of its members. It is being chaired by Actualis Marketing founder and chartered CILT member, Paul Kelly.


Other committee members


are: Jonathan Hornby, MD, In Time Wholesale Express; Jason Mutton, operations director, PSL Group; Michael Medden, general director, ICT Logistics A/S; Graham Cross, MD, GXD Logistics; Neil Gould, MD, Bibby International Logistics; Sullivan,


Brian Logistics London Insurance


Director, TT Club; Charles Measby, director,


Gateway


(DP World); Susan Morley, MD; Morley Consulting; and Mark Rowbotham, MD, Portcullis. The forum has launched


an awareness and feedback campaign with individual and corporate CILT members and will invite forwarders, shippers and logistics members to highlight their contribution to the nation’s supply chain, demonstrating how they integrate with forwarding operations, to help raise awareness of the industry. Paul Kelly told FBJ that, of the


CILT’s 18,000 members, around 1,000 are involved in forwarding. “However, only about 20 of those are at managing director level and, given the professional benchmarking provided by chartered status, it really should be higher than that.”


Ace on a high


Ace Express Freight won the Best Freight Forwarding Company of the Year award at the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) on 19 March. The family-owned North County Dublin Company fought off competition from the likes of DHL, Crane Worldwide Logistics and Expeditors.


A key forum objective is to


promote forwarding as a career and engage with forwarding CILT members and young forwarding professionals, to raise awareness of the chartered status they could all


aspire to achieve through


academic achievement or experience. He added that while he was willing to chair the Forum to


Issue 3 2015 - Freight Business Journal


3 Freight forwarding ready to raise its game


get it off the ground, “it really is something for the freight industry to manage, and I would like to hand it back to someone actively involved in freight forwarding at some stage.” He stressed that there should


be no conflict with BIFA, pointing out that CILT was the professional body for individuals while BIFA was the trade association.


However, he hoped that the two organisations would be able to work together to increase understanding


of freight


forwarding and increase its attractiveness to young people as a career. “When we have analysed the feedback from the awareness campaign, we hope to then have a dialogue with BIFA.” Kelly


concluded: “Freight


forwarders are actually very professional people – a lot more professional than many realise. But perhaps we need to celebrate their ability more – and this could be the first step to achieving this.” CILT’s new freight forwarding


forum will be officially launched at 12.00 on Wednesday 29 April at the Multimodal show. It will be hosted by DP World in its VIP bar.


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