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www.bifa.org The magazine of the British International Freight Association November 2023 BIFA Acting as a sub-agent: What’s your exposure to risk?
October 2018 The magazine of the British International Freight Association BIFA link Issue: 338
An overview of the Brexit Technical Notices – See page 10
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6: News BIFA expands training team
9: Policy & Compliance GDPR and the BIFA Standard Trading Conditions
INSIDE: Liverpool Dinner • The impact of ETS on shipping • Can sustainability create value? • Award-winning Uniserve • A day to remember for YFN members • Know your BIFA STC: Clause 20
12: Profile Metro Shipping,
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Issue: 399
16: Policy & Compliance
Classification and safety data sheets
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BIFAlink celebrates 400 issues: The headlines and highlights The more things change, the more they stay the same
T he fi rst edition of BIFAlink appeared in September 1990 and 33 years later we are celebrating its 400th issue. It has been just over eight years since we marked the 300th edition of BIFAlink in the October 2015 issue with a detailed retrospective. This article will concentrate on the intervening eight years and some of the subject matter covered in the 100 issues since. Whilst some might say that the past is a foreign country, and they do things differently there, anyone flicking through the pages of the 100 issues since the 300th might come to the conclusion that there is some truth in the old adage that the more things change, the more they stay the same. Regularly recurring themes are a feature of many of the monthly issues. To name but a few: The BIFA Freight Service Awards; Changes to the UK’s Customs rules and systems; Health and Safety compliance issues;
Multimodal; Training; the Standard Trading Conditions (STC); Quality accreditation such as ISO and AEO; Technological advance across all modes; and vexatious issues in container shipping. Of course, almost every issue has had to provide coverage of the momentous changes to many working practices caused by the decision of the UK to leave the EU in 2016. Environmental policy 2015 saw an article on how to go about planning an environmental policy, which has been another recurring topic over the last 100 issues. It came to the fore this year with the appointment of a dedicated policy advisor to deal with the issues related to sustainable logistics; the establishment of a sustainable logistics policy group; and the partnership agreement with Pledge, which is seeing the latter
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