10 questions to ask your offsetting partner

Guest Blog Post | BIFA is cooperating with Pledge, an integrated carbon measurement and offsetting platform, to help its members better understand and address the environmental issues that affect how they manage international supply chains.

Five shipping bodies join forces in bid to make transport of lithium-ion batteries safer

The five organisations – Cargo Incident Notification System (CINS), Confidential Human Factors Incident Reporting Programme (CHIRP), Container Owners Association (COA), International Cargo Handling Coordination Association (ICHCA), and Ship Message Design Group (SMDG) – say they will take advantage of unified information and data sources to bring greater awareness and understanding of issues with the goal of producing preventative output.

CDS Issue Update - Declaration issues and potential double charging

HMRC is currently conducting a thorough review to assess what happened during the recent major incident that caused some import declarations in the Customs Declaration Service to become stuck.

Spring Budget 2023 - Changes To Customs Measures

Find out what yesterday's announcements as part of the Spring Budget mean for BIFA Members

CDS Issue Update - Message from HMRC 15/03/23

BIFA has received the following update from HMRC relating to the ongoing CDS issues. Please see the verbatim message below.

The barriers stopping you from taking climate action and how to overcome them

Guest Blog Post | BIFA is cooperating with Pledge, an integrated carbon measurement and offsetting platform, to help its members better understand and address the environmental issues that affect how they manage international supply chains.

HMRC Provides Update On Current CDS Issues

Further to our earlier communications this week, HMRC has provided BIFA with an update on the progress so far in restoring a normal service on CDS.

European Commission releases ICS2 resources for Members

The European Commission has released new ICS2 resources for Members, to support with implementing the changes that came into effect on the 1st March.

CDS Imports - Commodity Code Update

HMRC has provided the following update on the ongoing issue affecting some import declarations that are being made through the Customs Declaration Service.

FIATA calls for reasonable free time for container usage

FIATA (International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations) urges shipping lines to review and reinstate the current free time periods back to no less than feasible, pre-pandemic levels.