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Are you ready for ICS2?
Left to right: Lydia Gwynne, Kelly Hobson, Robbie Morris, Georgia Gibson, Alice Walsh and Joel Amado.
BIFA hosted an online seminar on 1 February on the topic of ICS2. The presentation, by Martin Meacock, VP product development at systems provider Descartes, was attended by over 250 BIFA Members seeking to understand the requirements of Phases 2 (March 2023) and 3 (March 2024) of this EU-wide system impacting UK forwarders consigning goods through EU countries. During the 45-minute session Martin covered the following: • An overview of the ICS legislation as detailed in the UCC, • An overview of ICS as a system, • An outline of the legal responsibilities of individual parties in the supply chain, • An explanation of the data that individual supply chain parties might be in a position to submit, • An understanding of how this data may be submitted, and relevant information passed to other players, • Suggestions to help traders to prepare for ICS2, including new systems, etc. A FAQ document, answering questions raised by attendees, has been published and is available to download from bifa.org/information/ICS-2
Great turn out for first YFN 2023 event
Despite a national rail strike on the day, 21 delegates were not deterred from getting into the centre of Manchester for what was an interesting event to kick off 2023. Our guest speaker was the fabulous Kelly Hobson who gave attendees some thoughts on leadership and how it is evolving. She spoke about your ‘sphere of Influence’ and how leaders have to motivate the people around them and the importance of empathy. Kelly began her international logistics career back in 2005 as a marketing manager and has become a respected female leader within the industry, most recently as marketing director for Ligentia. Kelly also regularly lectures at the University of Leeds and is an active supporter of their Leaders in Residence and Mentor programme. Georgia Gibson, chair of the YFN Northwest, said:
“This was a great start to the year; to have someone with Kelly’s wide-ranging experience give her time to us was fabulous. I am proud to see how this region is developing; each event we are seeing new faces as well as building on existing friendships made purely thanks to the YFN! “We have big plans for the rest of the year. It was also nice to talk about Transaid and the potential opportunities that young people could get involved with outside of work.” You can find out more about future YFN events at www.bifa.org/events Volunteer appeal BIFA is looking for young people to join its various YFN committees. If you have a young colleague that you think will be interested, please get in touch with Nezda Leigh at n.leigh@bifa.org for more information.
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By sea – Hague Visby rules (2 SDR): £2.22 per kg £739.21 per package
BIFA STC: (2 SDR): £2.22 per kg
By road – CMR (8.33 SDR): £9.24 per kg
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