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popular Project Forwarding Award category. Chartered accountants Menzies LLP is the latest company to join the sponsorship team, becoming the sponsor of the hugely popular Apprentice of the Year Award in 2023. Port Express, the Felixstowe- based UK container haulage company, recognised an affinity with the ocean freight sector and pledged its support for the Ocean Services Award in 2019. Irish software supplier Thyme IT became the sponsor of the Specialist Services Award, for Members providing services beyond the traditional repertoire of the freight forwarder, in 2022. TT Club is the second longest- serving sponsor, having been supporting the BIFA Freight Service Awards since 1990. For the past 15 years TT Club has sponsored the European Logistics Award open to those Members offering short-sea and overland services between the UK and continental Europe. Virgin Atlantic Cargo picked up the baton as sponsor of the Young Freight Forwarder (YFF) of the Year Award 12 years ago in 2011 and has generously included a behind-the- scenes tour of Virgin Atlantic Cargo facilities for the YFF category finalists. Independent judging BIFA is proud to say that judging of individuals representing each of the sponsor companies who meet in November each year to review the finalists’ submissions and select the winners. Did you know? the awards is carried out, independently of BIFA, by Previously known as Forwarder of the Year Awards, the BIFA Freight Service Awards were launched in September 1989 following the creation of the British International Freight Association in 1988, and are now in their 35th year. Winners The winners of the 2023 BIFA Freight Service Awards will be announced by the sponsors at the ceremony this month and a full report will be published in the February issue of BIFAlink.
A thank you to our category sponsors
Without BIFA’s loyal category sponsors the awards would not exist in their current hugely successful format
T his month sees the competition with the sold-out ceremony and luncheon taking place at the Brewery in central London on Thursday 18 January. Among the 570 guests present will be the category sponsors, without whom the BIFA Awards would not exist in the format they do. BIFA acknowledges the contribution of the following companies that have supported the BIFA Awards 2023: culmination of the BIFA Freight Service Awards 2023
Believing that people are a company’s greatest asset, software and IT systems provider Albacore Systems has sponsored the Staff Development Award since 2009. American Airlines Cargo joined the line-up in 2015, initially sponsoring the Cool Award. For 2023 it has given its backing to the new Sustainable Logistics and the Environment Award, which attracted a great deal of interest from Members. BoxTop Technologies began its sponsorship run in 2005 with the Special Services and Technology Awards before switching to the Supply Chain Management Award in 2009. With a mission to improve logistics and supply chain productivity, performance and security, Descartes proposed the Extra Mile Award in 2015 and has continued to sponsor this award ever since. The name of IAG Cargo first appeared as sponsor of the Air Cargo Services Award in 2012, but the category was previously sponsored by British Airways since the first year of the BIFA Freight Service Awards in 1989. Macbeth Insurance Brokers acquired Peter Lole Insurance Brokers in April 2021 and continued in its footsteps to support the BIFA Awards with sponsorship of the
“ BIFA is proud to say that judging of the awards is carried out, independ- ently of BIFA, by individuals representing each of the sponsor companies
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