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Peter and the BIFA Secretariat team enjoy a Christmas meal (December 2013)
OBITUARY: Peter Quantrill
Peter offers the Loyal Toast at
the BIFA Awards 2012
1947-2024 All at BIFA and many BIFA Members were sad to hear that Peter Quantrill had passed away in January. Peter was Director General of BIFA from 2007 to 2014, a fi tting fi nale to an outstanding career in freight forwarding. Peter was a lifelong jazz fan and it was his passion for music that influenced his career direction when leaving education. His prime goal when looking for a job was how it would enable him to get to Chicago and see his jazz heroes in one of the city’s legendary night spots. He joined Aer Lingus as a cargo sales representative, achieving his ambition with discounted air travel. However Peter soon moved into freight forwarding, rising to
Peter and BIFAlink publisher Peter Edwards at Multimodal 2011
become managing director of Mercury Airfreight by the mid- 1980s. Senior roles followed with Emery/Menlo and UPS, before moving to BIFA in 2007. At BIFA, Peter was a steady hand after the association had experienced some turbulence, immediately getting to grips with securing an opt-out for the forwarding sector from the Insurance Mediation Directive.
Negotiating with HM Treasury, against a backdrop of the global financial crisis, took endeavour and skill, but Peter achieved a great victory for the industry. Peter was a warm and generous man who left his mark on BIFA with many enhancements and successes. Our condolences go to his family.
The Limits of Liability for Carriers
In association with
By air – Warsaw Convention (17 SDR): £17.79 per kg
By sea – Hague Visby rules (2 SDR): £2.09 per kg £697.76 per package
BIFA STC: (2 SDR): £2.09 per kg
By road – CMR (8.33 SDR): £8.72 per kg
Insurance for the Marine & Logistics industries
(The SDR rate on 13 February 2024,
By air – Montreal Convention (22 SDR): £23.03 per kg
according to the IMF website, was 1.04664)
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