BIFA calls for “clarity and transparency” amid Brexit
The director general of British International Freight Association has called for transparency ahead of the UK’s departure from the European Union.
The director general of British International Freight Association has called for transparency ahead of the UK’s departure from the European Union.
British International Freight Association has appointed David Stroud as its policy and compliance advisor, with the responsibility for logistics issues relating to air freight, security and sustainable logistics.
The UK government is to extend the deadline for businesses to apply for funding towards training courses that help them to complete customs declarations to May 31 2019.
HMRC is extending the Transitional Simplified Procedures in the event of no-deal Brexit, so that the date the first supplementary customs declarations must be submitted, and any import duties must be paid, is 4th October.
The British International Freight Association is urging its members to respond to the government’s aviation policy consultation.
The British International Freight Association is launching a networking group, the BIFA Young Forwarders Network (YFN).
The British International Freight Association has welcomed news of an £8 million government funding scheme to support customs intermediaries and traders completing customs declarations, aiming to support training and the upgrade of IT systems associated with the UK’s departure from the EU.
Plans by shipping lines to introduce a “sulphur surcharge” are “unjustified and blatant profiteering”, according to the British International Freight Association.
Freight forwarders that encountered operational damage and additional costs due to disrupted operations at port of Felixstowe, after a new operating system was introduced in June, have been warned that they are unlikely to receive compensation from the port’s owners.
The British International Freight Association has repeated its call for an end to surcharges imposed by shipping lines, following the decision by a number of lines to levy emergency bunker surcharges in response to rising fuel costs.