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Local Winner in YIFFA Competition
Ms. Silvia Valles Barrera, who completed the 2009 - 2010 FIATA Diploma in Freight Forwarding with IIFA, was last month announced the European Regional winner of the Young International Freight Forwarder Award 2011.
Silvia will now progress to the final stage of the competition with the regional winners from Africa/ Middle East, Americas and Asia/ Pacific and the overall winner will be announced at the 2011 FIATA World Congress in Cairo, Egypt during 16th - 21st October 2011.
Silvia, as reported in our May IIFA Newsletter, is an employee of IIFA Full Trading Member, Hawthorn Logistics who also promoted an entrant for this competition last year.
"We have every confidence that Silvia will do Europe and Ireland proud at the FIATA World Congress in October and look forward to the prospect of welcoming her home as the overall Young Freight Forwarder of the Year 2011," said IIFA CEO Colm Walsh.
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Geodis Ireland gains IEA Life Sciences
Ireland GDP Passport Certification
 | | Photograph Right to Left: David O'Brien MD Geodis Ireland, - Susan Lally Operations Director, John Whelan CEO Irish Exporters Association, Robert Cashman Sales Director and Derek Smith Quality Manager. |
 Geodis Ireland have been awarded by the Irish Exporters Association a GDP Passport for the Life Science Industry.
Pharmaceutical and medical technologies companies need best distribution practice when reaching exports markets - states the Irish Exporters Association, at a ceremony to award Geodis Ireland Ltd the IEA Life Sciences Ireland GDP Passport Certification
Three decades of continuous investment by multinational medical device and pharmaceutical companies and the growth and expansion of our indigenous medtech companies has helped make Ireland the European centre for the Life Science Industry.
With 9 of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies in the world based here, 7 of the top 10 blockbuster drugs manufactured here and 15 of the world's top 20 Medical Technology companies operating here, it is essential that Ireland can provide the associated services required by these companies to operate, grow and compete.
John Whelan, Chief Executive of the Irish Exporters Association (IEA) stated at the award ceremony:
"The strict requirements laid down by the IEA in order to be awarded a GDP (Good Distribution Practice) Passport are essential to ensure that the highest standards and quality is provided by supply chain and logistics companies to the pharmaceutical, medical device and biotechnology companies in Ireland.
Geodis Irelands' commitment to this sector is commendable. Geodis Ireland is an established leader and innovator in this sector, having received its Irish Medicines Board Wholesalers Licence in 2006 and today its GDP Passport. This demonstrates their huge commitment to their customers and to the Life Science industry in Ireland."
David O'Brien, Managing Director of Geodis Ireland stated:
"Geodis Ireland is delighted to be awarded the IEA Life Sciences Ireland GDP Passport. This industry recognised standard helps establish the integrity of supply chain and logistic suppliers to the Life Science Industry in Ireland.
At Geodis Ireland, we are very proud of our services, facilities and people. We believe in continuous training and improvement. Since our establishment in 2002, our warehouse has been TAPA approved, Irish Medicine Board Certified and our services have been ISO accredited. We have invested in key development programmes to support our customers, such as, Key Account Management and Six Sigma Training.
Being awarded the GDP Passport is another step in our continuous improvement plans.
We understand the challenges faced by pharmaceutical and medical device companies and believe our customer centric supply chain solutions will help them achieve competitive advantage".
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Aramex now Irish Medicine Board Approved
IIFA Full Trading Member Aramex is now Irish Medicine Board approved.
Aramex Dublin has been granted the Irish Medicines Board Wholesalers Authorisation for storage and distribution of Prescription only Medical Products and Medical Products for General Sale.
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Formal Application for 2011 - 2012 FIATA Diploma in Freight Forwarding now open
The IIFA Education Committee is pleased to announce that formal application for the 2011 - 2012 FIATA Diploma course is now open.
This new course will take blended learning a step further and will now be delivered Online. Participants will be able to attend tutorials via virtual classrooms delivered straight to their internet browsers*. This development saves participants much time by eliminating the need to travel and offers great flexibility for those who need to undertake international travel on a regular basis. We at the IIFA are very excited about this development as a web based system now allows us to offer training on a national scale and thereby offer a better service to all our member firms.
The details of the course are;
Start Date: Wednesday 21st September 2011**
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Location: Grand Hotel, Malahide, Co. Dublin
Price: €1,950.00
(a sliding scale does apply for Member firms of IIFA entering more than one applicant)
Prospective participants for this course should contact the IIFA office via telephone on 01-845-5411 or e-mail to iifa@eircom.net. It will be necessary for all applicants to complete a short telephone interview.
How the course works via the Internet
Course Leaders will deliver tutorials live through participant's internet browsers. There will be nine such online tutorials delivered from 6pm on Tuesday nights, with a four week break in-between each. Presentations and power-point images will be visible on screen with audio guiding participants through the tutorial. Interaction will be available via an instant message chat box for those who have questions.
For each module/ subject there will be a multiple-choice question test, which will take place at the beginning of the following tutorial. Participants will have timed access to the test and will be required to complete a set number of questions during that period. There will be one test per module (total of 9 modules) however there will occasionally also be assignments given that will also count towards a participant's module test result.
All multiple-choice questions will be based on the text for each training module listed in the course material (hardcopy) which will be provided by IIFA.
* - Apart from an initial induction evening and the final classroom examination.
** - Please note that the start date for physical registration may be changed to a Saturday morning depending on the volume of applicants from outside Dublin. This will be confirmed closer to the start date.
Want to meet the lecturers of the FIATA Diploma course?
The IIFA will be exhibiting at the Which Course Expo, Ireland's largest evening and adult education course fair, in the RDS, Dublin on Saturday 27th & Sunday 28th August from 11am - 6pm on both days.
Lecturers will have course manuals on hand to show prospective students the material available to study and what to expect from the course. This is an excellent opportunity for anyone thinking of doing the FIATA Diploma and the IIFA welcomes all enquirires from employees of Member firms.
For more information on the event click on the link below;
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Irish trucks being seized in UK ports
Irish lorries are being impounded in west coast UK ports by the government, which claims Irish hauliers are operating illegal cabotage.
A number of Irish companies send unaccompanied trailers to Liverpool, Fishguard, Pembroke and Holyhead, where they are collected by Irish drivers who have stayed overnight near the ports.
The UK government claims the trailers should be collected by British hauliers.
"Irish drivers often take a load across the Irish sea and then stay in Britain to collect more Irish trailers," explained Eoin Gavin, President of the Irish Road Haulage Association (IRHA).
"It doesn't make sense for them to keep going back and forth when they know they will have more loads for Britain. The stay in the UK also acts as an official break from working hours."
The IRHA is lobbying the Irish government to persuade Westminster to classify the four relevant ports as international, so that existing cabotage rules will not apply.
At the moment, an Irish haulier is allowed to make three journeys in the UK - but any trip involving a UK port is considered one of those three trips.
If the ports were classified as international, they wouldn't count, so collection from, and drop-off at, a port would not be seen as domestic movements.
"Our members do not want to take UK business away. We are only collecting Irish loads which we would be carrying anyway, added Gavin. "We believe the UK government is being protectionist."
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New €1.5 Million Dublin Port Rail Spur Gives Further Boost
to Rail Freight Business
 | | Minister for Transport Leo Varadkar, CEO of Irish Rail Dick Fearn and Derek D'Arcy of IWT "physically" supporting rail freight. |
Minister for Transport Leo Varadkar TD marked the opening of a new rail spur in Dublin Port, set to enhance the competitiveness of rail freight for Dublin Port and Iarnród Éireann customers, on 13th July 2011.
The expansion of the rail spur follows a €1.5 million investment made by Dublin Port Company. The spur is 1.6 kilometres long, and the project took six months to complete.
The new rail spur facilitates access for rail freight to ship side at the Ocean Pier, eliminating the need for loading and unloading on Alexandra Road , and will improve the competitiveness of rail freight to/from Dublin Port.
The first customer of the new facility was IIFA Member IWT (International Warehousing and Transport) and it is expected that the current IWT service will increase from 4 to 5 trains per week in each direction in the coming weeks as a result of this investment. IWT believe that the service will save up to 5.5million road kilometres every year and will reduce CO2 emissions by as much as 2,750 tonnes. The increased frequency in the service provides customers with a regular and reliable rail alternative delivering a superior product that will enhance Ireland's contribution to the European Union's modal shift aspirations from road to rail.
The project represents a true public private partnership between Dublin Port Company, Iarnród Éireann and IWT, and it is also open to other Shipping Companies or bulk carriers to avail of this new rail facility in Dublin Port. Iarnród Éireann will seek new rail freight customers for train load point to point business.
Speaking at the opening, Minister for Transport, Tourism & Sport Leo Varadkar TD said: 'I welcome this important investment by Dublin Port Company in its rail network. It will further enhance the attractiveness of the port as a destination for rail-based freight. The project represents a commitment on the part of Dublin Port Company and Iarnród Éireann to customers who want to move goods by rail'.
Mr. Eamonn O'Reilly, Chief Executive Dublin Port Company added: "This investment by Dublin Port Company underpins the rail freight operation started by IWT in August 2009. At this stage IWT is operating five round trips per week to Ballina and I am hopeful they will expand their service offerings to other locations around the country. The co-operation between Dublin Port Company, Iarnród Éireann and IWT shows how private sector and public sector companies can work together. Dublin Port has always had excellent connections to the national rail network and it is wonderful to see viable commercial container rail freight services linking Dublin to an ever expanding hinterland".
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DHL moves goalposts for UEFA
Europa League Final winners - FC Porto
DHL were at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin recently to collect a set of goalposts for FC Porto. The club, winners of this year's UEFA Europa League Final at the Aviva Stadium, decided to commemorate the win in a unique way. They have purchased the goalposts, measuring over seven metres in width and some 2.44m in height, from the end of the ground in which their striker, Falcao, scored his 44th minute winning goal in their victory over fellow Portuguese side Braga. The goalposts will feature in a new museum currently being developed by Porto.
DHL Global Forwarding moved the goalposts from Dublin, Ireland to Portugal on a direct truck.
Cian Nihill of the Irish Times reported that the fee for the post was an "undisclosed amount" although was later verified as being in the "not very much to be honest" ball park, roughly about the cost of a regular set of goalposts.
FC Porto achieved a 1 - 0 victory over Braga in the final and as no goal was scored in the second half of the match, the opposite set of goal posts will remain in Dublin.
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Food distributor 3663 rolls out first electric vehicle
The English wholesale food distributor 3663, based in High Wycombe, has launched its first electric vehicle, which will operate out of its south London depot. The 12 t Smith Newton electric vehicle can transport 3 t of goods, emits zero emissions and reduces noise pollution. The sustainable truck takes just seven hours to be fully charged and can be topped up when required for quick power boosts.
For more see:
www.3663.co.uk
www.smithelectricvehicles.com
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DB Schenker Logistics shows expertise
in handling Berlin Wall
An original piece of the world-famous Berlin Wall, a 3.6 m high segment weighing 2.7 t, has been placed in the garden of the former German chancellor Helmut Kohl, known as the "reunification chancellor", by DB Schenker Logistics to mark the 50th anniversary of the building of the wall on 13 August 2011. Specialists had to man a high-power crane to get the oversized exhibition piece into its new location. DB Schenker Logistics, an expert in trade fair and special logistics, is adept at creating such tailor-made solutions for pieces of art or historically valuable museum pieces.
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Fatal cargo plane crash in eastern Siberia
An Antonov AN-12 cargo plane that had been in service since 1963 crashed 10 km from Omsukchan recently.
The plane was carrying 11 occupants and 18 t of cargo.
According to local media the crew had reported a fuel leak and an engine fire and indicated that they were returning to Magadan. The airplane did not reach Magadan and contact was lost. The wreckage was located the following day and no survivors were found.
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Limits of Liability (Cargo Claims)
By Sea - Hague Visby Rules
SDR 2 per kilo or
SDR 666.64 per package
By Road - CMR
SDR 8.33 per kilo
By Air - Warsaw/Montreal
SDR 19 per kilo
IIFA Standard Trading Conditions
SDR 2 per kilo
The SDR rate on 23/08/2011 according to the
International Monetary Fund
was
1 SDR = 1.115620 Euro
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Agus and focail scoir:
Ever wonder why Teachers need to drink?
Take a look at these answers to test questions:
Q. What did Mahatma Gandhi and Gengis Khan have in common?
A. Unusual names.
Q. Where was the American Declaration of Independence signed?
A. At the bottom.
Q. Name the wife of Orpheus, whom he attempted to save from the underworld?
A. Mrs. Orpheus
Q. What happens during puberty to a boy?
A. He says goodbye to his childhood and enters adultery.
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