Industry News
Protection of secure cargo If you are an aviation security regulated agent, you will have been contacted by the Department for Transport concerning Variation Direction & Guidance – Protection of Secure Cargo & Mail. The new provisions come into force on 1 June 2024, allowing a proportionate lead-time as agreed in consultation with the industry. Your aviation security manager should have received the communication. The new provisions will form part of your Aviation Security Programme and must be reflected therein. If you have any questions on the measures prescribed in the Variation Direction, including in relation to interpretation that may not be answered through referral to the guidance document, please direct these in the first instance to the CAA – neil.williams@avsec.caa.co. uk. Dates for your diary In addition to the regular Regional Member meetings (see page 22), BIFA is planning a number of events this year. Events coming up in the next three months are listed right.
Promoting logistics apprenticeships
Last month, in honour of National Apprenticeship Week, Steve Parker, Carl Hobbis, and BIFA apprentices Shelby Merchant and Brooke Neilson attended the Generation Logistics
Parliamentary Reception. The reception was an opportunity to hear from representatives about the dedicated work that Generation Logistics is doing to promote the industry and the various career pathways
that logistics provides. BIFA is a proud supporter
and trade partner of Generation Logistics.
To find out more about the campaign, visit the website at: https://generationlogistics.org
CMA rules against consortia exemption
A regular concern of the BIFA Membership and wider trade over many years has been the conduct of shipping lines who, it had been argued, have exploited a dominant market position. On 9 February the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) wrote to BIFA
confirming that, after a two- stage review, it had published its final decision that it will not recommend to the Secretary of State for Business and Trade that the Consortia Block Exemption Regulation (CBER) be replaced with a UK block exemption, when the CBER expires on 25 April 2024.
A copy of the decision is available on our website: Liner Shipping Consortia Block Exemption Regulation – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). BIFA will review what is a complex text and update Members in the next edition of BIFAlink with further relevant information.
DATE
EVENT
REGISTER
Member Webinar: BIFA STCs: an overview
10 April
See https://bifa.org/events/list/
and practical application
to register
Member Webinar: Rules and proof of origin for preferential trade schemes and agreements
15 May
See https://bifa.org/events/list/
to register
including DCTS
BIFA Business Leaders Forum
16 May
Scan the QR
Central London
code to register
11-13 June Multimodal 24
Scan the QR
NEC Birmingham
code to register
Reporting Freight Related Crime to Border Force – Operations Pegasus and Pandora
Air Contact Numbers Tel: 0203 196 2456 (0700-2000) Tel: 0203 014 5604 (24-hours) Crimestoppers: 0800 555111 or 101 quoting reference Pegasus
Ocean Contact Numbers Tel: 01394 303 116 (Office hours) Tel: 07920 587808 (24-hours) Quoting the reference Pandora.
Please note that there are different numbers for air and ocean. Border Force has confirmed that all reports will be treated in the strictest confidence.
6 | March 2024
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