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Staff Development Award – sponsored by Albacore Systems – Winner: Dachser. Recruiting bright, dedicated and motivated young people, and then nurturing and developing their talent in a highly supportive environment to release their fullest potential, is at the heart of Dachser’s strategy and once again Dachser’s commitment to the logistics industry has been recognised by BIFA.


Supply Chain Management Award – sponsored by BoxTop Technologies – Winner: B&H Worldwide. B&H Worldwide’s purpose-built visibility tool has streamlined its customers’ time- critical supply chains and delivered substantial cost savings.


INDIVIDUAL CATEGORY Young Freight Forwarder Award – sponsored by Virgin Atlantic Cargo – Winner: Louis Perrin of Hemisphere Freight Services. Shipping and logistics is in Louis’s blood and his interest in the industry began in childhood when he would accompany his father on port visits and business trips overseas. Determined to understand the shipping world from the ground up, Louis began his career in the warehouse whilst studying a degree course in Logistics and Transport. In the relatively short period of ten years, Louis has worked his way up to director level within Hemisphere Freight Services.


MODAL CATEGORIES Air Cargo Services Award – sponsored by IAG Cargo – Winner: Metro Shipping. Metro led a successful collaborative approach with Birmingham Airport that demonstrated material benefits to the supply chain: reducing costs, reducing transit times, reducing carbon footprint and growing Birmingham Airport as an air freight centre. This winning submission is a shining example of the benefits of airfreight.


Ocean Services Award – sponsored by CLECAT – Winner: Moto Freight. The winner of the Ocean Services category presented an innovative solution addressing the needs of a niche market. Moto Freight demonstrated sound knowledge and expertise in its field, recognising the need for best practice in the stowage and shipping of a challenging cargo.


SPECIALIST CATEGORIES Cool Award – sponsored by American Airlines – Winner: Pharmafreight. Pharmafreight has


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consistently proven to be an innovator and leader in providing logistics solutions to the pharmaceutical business. Its collaborative approach, involving suppliers, clients and end- users has resulted in leading-edge technologies and processes.


Extra Mile Award – sponsored by Descartes – Winner: Morgan Cargo. Morgan Cargo worked extremely closely with its customer and the customer’s suppliers to deliver better quality


products to the CIS market, improving sales and profitability. Managing the UK operations completely, it also saved miles in unnecessary transit movements.


LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD In addition to the regular awards, this year BIFA made the decision to recognise a stalwart of the freight forwarding industry with a Lifetime Achievement Award. This was announced by Kevin King of ceremony sponsor the TT Club and awarded to Colin Joyce of Stansted Training Services. Having found himself redundant following the demise of the forwarder Thomas Meadows, Colin set up Stansted Training Services specialising in the delivery of training in the areas of freight forwarding, exports, imports and Customs procedures. For over 30 years, Colin has delivered courses on behalf of BIFA. He retires this year having trained hundreds of individuals and leaving a huge legacy of knowledge.


February 2018


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