Freight forwarding apprenticeships set to address UK's skills shortage

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The British International Freight Association (BIFA) has urged UK freight forwarders to take advantage of the newly authorised freight forwarding apprentice scheme to address the industry’s skills shortage problem.

In an interview with The Loadstar on the sidelines of last week’s Multimodal event in Birmingham, BIFA training development manager Carl Hobbis explained that the recent official approval from the Institute of Apprenticeships for the BIFA-supported Trailblazer group forwarding apprentice scheme should give the UK’s freight forwarding industry the capacity to attract ...