With Brexit talks due to get underway in Brussels later today, the British International Freight Association – www.bifa.org – is calling for the UK negotiators to push for a deal that keeps the UK in the European customs union.
Commenting ahead of news about whether there will be a Queen’s Speech and start of Brexit negotiations next Monday, British International Freight Association (BIFA) director general, Robert Keen says:
Birmingham, UK, Thursday, 6th April 2017 – Nobody really knows what the Brexit implications are for trade, Robert Keen, Director General, BIFA, told delegates at the Brexit Briefing at Multimodal 2017. And he brought along a crystal ball to emphasise the point.
On the day that UK Prime Minister, Theresa May invokes Article 50 and begin negotiations for Britain’s exit from the European Union, the trade body that represents the UK’s freight forwarding companies says it is still too soon to make speculative statements with so many unknowns.
Once again, BIFA – the British International Freight Association – will be exhibiting at the forthcoming Multimodal 2017 exhibition and conference and will use the event to outline some of the work it is doing on behalf of its members that are facing significant challenges to the provision of freight and logistics services for international trade.
In just over a month, the UK and Ireland’s premier freight transport, logistics and supply chain management event, Multimodal opens its doors.
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The British International Freight Association (BIFA) is encouraging its members to carefully consider the options when seeking advice on the likely implications to their business and services of the UK’s decision to leave the EU.
The British International Freight Association (BIFA), which has been encouraging an employer group that is behind a specific Apprenticeship Standard for an International Freight Forwarding Operative, now calls on the wider freight community to provide broader support for the initiative.
The British International Freight Association (BIFA) has given a broad welcome to yesterday’s announcement by UK Prime Minister Theresa May that the Government intends to build an industrial strategy to deliver a high-skilled, competitive economy that benefits people throughout the country.
The British International Freight Association (BIFA) says that whilst Prime Minister Theresa May’s much anticipated speech today has delivered some clarity on the UK’s plans to leave the European Union’s single market, it remains short on the details that will assist its members as they go about their business of managing much of the UK’s visible international trade.
The British International Freight Association (BIFA) has raised concerns that the implementation of this new procedure will cause issues because the new on-line form was not available at the time that it was introduced.
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