BIFA has appointed Steve Murray as regional representative for a newly created Central Region to strengthen regional engagement and better support the trade association’s corporate members across the Midlands. The boundary of the new Central Region encompasses members based in the home counties...

The UK’s leading freight association has warned air cargo operators and logistics firms to tighten due diligence procedures amid growing concerns about fraud within the supply chain. In a statement, senior policy and compliance adviser Robert Windsor of the British International Freight Associati...

The Transported Asset Protection Association (TAPA EMEA) and BIFA, the British International Freight Association, are developing their collaboration to help protect their member companies against rising freight crime in the United Kingdom. In the two years to 30 September 2025, the TAPA EMEA Inte...

After a remarkable 26-year career with the British International Freight Association (BIFA), Robert Keen officially fully retired from the association at the end of October 2025. Robert – known to many as Bob – has been a familiar and respected figure across the UK freight forwarding communit...

The British International Freight Association welcomes the UK Government’s decision to pause the implementation of additional import controls on EU and EFTA goods, announced in the wake of the UK-EU Summit held in May. This move — part of ongoing negotiations towards a Sanitary and Phytosanit...

The British International Freight Association (BIFA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ethiopian Freight Forwarders and Shipping Agents Association (EFFSAA), aimed at modernising and strengthening Ethiopia’s freight forwarding and logistics industry. The official signing c...

Keith Baguley has succeeded Charles Hogg as the elected national chair of BIFA – the British International Freight Association – for a two-year period. Baguley, senior manager at BIFA member company Grimaldi Group, has been the trade association’s vice chair for the last two years, as well ...

The British International Freight Association (BIFA) has launched an advisory body, which will undertake a lot of the activity previously covered by the CCS UK User Group. The first task of the working group will be to focus on the impact of the planned massive redevelopment of the cargo village ...

As a result of the retirement of David Stroud as BIFA’s policy and compliance adviser – Air, the trade association is reorganising its policy and compliance team. David’s role is becoming the responsibility of Pawel Jarza, who is well known to many BIFA members as a result of his work in th...

Australia has joined the US and Canada in introducing heightened security measures for air cargo originating from Europe and Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries. Starting September 26, cargo bound for Australia on passenger flights must only be tendered by shippers with whom forwar...

At the end of 2022, Mr Parker retired from his position as Head of Customs UK at DHL Global Forwarding, and commenced his new role with BIFA from the start of the new year. Parker’s career spans over four decades in freight and logistics. Having secured a position with Pandair in the early 1970s,...