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Forwarder Pods are back for Multimodal 2022
Igor Popovics welcomed to policy and compliance team The Association is very pleased to advise Members that Igor Popovics has been appointed as Policy and Compliance Advisor with responsibility for Customs and frontier-related issues. Igor joins BIFA at a challenging time for those engaged in Customs and related matters, with the new procedures and IT systems designed to facilitate the UK’s departure from the EU still being ‘bedded in’ or implemented. At the same time, the programme to replace CHIEF with CDS is being rolled out and government is looking at implementing the Single Trade Window.
The Multimodal exhibition returns to the traditional summer slot this year and BIFA will again be at the centre of a forwarder village. Around our stand there will be 36 ‘log pods’ available
from the organiser, Clarion Events, for £950. These were very popular last year and we
understand that over half have already been sold for June 2022. If you do book one, please note your contract is with Clarion and you should read its terms before committing as BIFA cannot intercede should there be any dispute. If you decide not to take this low-cost route to exhibiting, hopefully you can come and meet the BIFA team at the NEC in Birmingham between 14-16 June. For details of log pods, please contact Robert Jervis
at Robert.Jervis@clarionevents.com or visit www.multimodal.org.uk
Industry socialising returns to normal
With life in the UK beginning to return to some sort of normality, it is good to see industry socialising groups meeting again. Socialising with industry colleagues has taken a dip in many sectors, with a massive expansion of televised sport, more TV channels and longer pub opening hours; but these clubs continue to provide easy-to-get-to venues and top- quality events. In Scotland, the Glasgow Freight Club holds lunches, golf and snooker competitions and a top- class dinner and dance each year. In London there are seven lunches each year and a golf society. These clubs are entirely member
(pictured) who is the honorary Secretary of the London Freight Club. He is a man who gives up his time to make sure hundreds of freight professionals can meet regularly and have a good time. The London Freight Club met a few times in the second half of 2021 and has a full programme planned for 2022. Meanwhile the Glasgow Freight Club hopes to hold the Raymond Clarkson Lunch on 20 May at the Crowne Plaza. For more information about these events, please contact either Gordon Day at londonfreightclub@hotmail.com or Craig Fyffe at craig@theglasgowfreightclub.org
driven and raise huge amounts for charity every year. At the BIFA Awards ceremony in January 2022, we were pleased to present a special recognition award to Gordon Day
Containerline reliability hits record low
Prior to joining BIFA, Igor held a position at the London Chamber of Commerce. Whilst primarily fulfilling a Customs role, he did gain valuable knowledge of Rules of Origin and Carnets. This experience will benefit both the Association and membership. We hope that BIFA Members will welcome Igor to the Association and we wish him all the best in his role. You can contact Igor at i.popovics@bifa.org
Containerline schedule reliability has fallen again, this time by 1.2 percentage points on a month- to-month basis to 32%, according to the latest report from maritime analyst Sea Intelligence, which included figures up to December 2021. This was the worst global schedule reliability recorded since Sea-Intelligence started the measurement in 2011. On a year-to-year basis, schedule reliability was 12.5 percentage
points lower. Despite the low schedule reliability in 2021, there has not been much fluctuation, with the global scores hovering between 32% and 40% for the most part. The average delay for late vessel arrivals increased to 7.33 days, the fifth consecutive month with the delay figure above seven days. Among the world’s 14 largest container lines, Maersk had the highest reliability, with 46.2%. Maersk-owned Hamburg Süd came
in second with 41%. MSC is third, followed by Hapag- Lloyd. Five carriers had schedule reliability of under 20%, with Evergreen recording the lowest December 2021 schedule reliability figure of 14.3%. Asian container lines usually have lower reliability rates as a large part of their business takes place on the route to the US via the Pacific Ocean, which is the most strained route of all.
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