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Driver Safety & Freight Security


training course BIFA supports NaVCIS (The National Vehicle Crime Intelligence Service) which is a national police unit that works to protect communities in the UK from vehicle finance crime and associated serious and organised crime. There is a Driver Safety & Freight


Incentive payments available to help hiring of new apprentices


Extra funding is available as part of the government’s employment support scheme for both training and apprenticeships in response to the unprecedented times. Businesses are being offered


£2,000 for each new apprentice they hire under the age of 25 starting employment between 1 August 2020 and 31 January 2021. This is in addition to the existing


£1,000 payment the government already provides for new 16-18- year-old apprentices and those


aged under 25 with an education, health and care plan. For apprentices aged 25 and over, you can receive £1,500 in total. You get the payment in two equal


for each new apprentice under the age of 25


£2,000 £1,500


for each new apprentice over the age of 25


instalments, after the apprentices completes 90 and 365 days of their apprenticeship. You can spend the payment on


anything to support your organisation’s costs, from facilities and travel to uniforms and salaries. For more information visit:


https://engage.apprenticeships.gov. uk/Incentives_ApplyNow


Security course for HGV/LGV drivers that has been approved and endorsed by NaVCIS as the unit responsible for coordinating the policing of freight theft in the UK. Upon passing the CPD accredited course, drivers can evidence they are fit, safe and competent to be entrusted with all types of freight with a certification to prove it. The course is designed to


prevent the common mistakes that can sometimes result in harm or loss; it is completed online. This is not a BIFA course, being


provided by NaVCIS approved supplier Antevorte – www.antevortegroup.com Contact: Andrew.Vaughn@ antevortegroup.com


Don’t keep it


to yourself Remember to circulate BIFAlink to your colleagues. Not your copy of BIFAlink? – register for your own copy by contacting membership@bifa.org. BIFAlink is the magazine of the British International Freight Association and is distributed free to Members.


By sea – Hague Visby rules (2 SDR): £2.18 per kg £725.71 per package


By road – CMR (8.33 SDR): £9.07 per kg


By air –Montreal Convention (22 SDR): £23.95 per kg


November 2020


By air –Warsaw Convention (17 SDR): £18.51 per kg


BIFA STC: (2 SDR): £2.18 per kg


(The SDR rate on 19 October 2020, according to the IMF website, was 1.08856)


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