Freight Forwarding Events

When: 23 January 2025, 18:00 - 21:00
Where: Maersk Logistics and Services, East Midlands Gateway, Wilders Way, Derby, DE74 2BB
Meeting Point: Visitors Reception (directions will be provided for Joining Instructions)

Speakers: 

• David Kennedy-Browne FCILT, Director, Corporate & Social Affairs, Maersk Logistics
• Jon Rawcliffe, Inward Investment Lead, East Midlands Freeport
• Will Morlidge, Acting Executive Director for Inclusive Growth, East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA)

Joint event with West Midlands Region

Of interest to a wide range of members from transport, logistics & transport planning backgrounds, this is a unique opportunity to hear about the plans for the Development of East Midlands Freeport (originally granted in 2021), endorsed by the new Labour Government in the October 2024 budget.

We have three first class speakers, Jon Rawcliffe from East Midlands Freeport & Will Morlidge from the Combined Authority (EMCCA) who will fill us in on the background, history, funding & future plans for the Freeport and its importance to the Local & Regional economy, and finally from our hosts, Maersk where David Kennedy-Browne FCILT will give us the views of a major operator, currently making use of the Freeport & their plans for growth.

The event will be hosted by Maersk from their brand new office complex at their recently opened East Midland Gateway Distribution Centre.


To book: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ciltuk-east-midlands-freeport-a-platform-for-growth-tickets-1117573094209?aff=oddtdtcreator


Note: If you are not a current Member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, please be aware our membership team may be in touch with you using your email address provided regards membership opportunities. If you do not wish to be contacted please email and let us know at regions@ciltuk.org.uk

• FM1.1 Freight Transport Operations and Services
• FM2.3 Local, National and International Distribution Networks

When: 20 February 2025, 15:00 - 17:00
Where: The National Robotarium, Heriot-Watt University, Boundary Road North, Third Gait, Edinburgh  EH14 4AS
Speaker: Lisa Farrell, Heriot-Watt University

The UK’s centre for artificial intelligence, located on Heriot-Watt University’s Edinburgh campus, creates innovative solutions to global challenges, working directly with industry to test and develop robotic, AI and automated technologies and rapidly move pioneering research from lab to market. The centre fosters the teaching and development of the next generation of roboticists, producing highly-skilled graduates who are trained to conduct world-leading research with a market focus, and developing programmes to equip the current and future workforce with robotics, data and programming skills. It also delivers incubation and business acceleration support for start-up technology companies, providing them with access to labs, office space, equipment, and engineering expertise to develop their ideas, attract inward investment, and shape the future of robotics.
 
The National Robotarium is a Data-Driven Innovation hub, funded in partnership with The University of Edinburgh as part of the £1.5bn Edinburgh and South-East Scotland City Region Deal, which is supported with £300m funding from the UK Government and £300m funding from the Scottish Government.


Lisa Farrell and colleagues will explain how robotic, AI and automated technologies can be applied to sectors including not only logistics but also agriculture and social care where they can address labour shortages. 

To book click the link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1142413392209?aff=oddtdtcreator

Note: If you are not a current Member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, please be aware our membership team may be in touch with you using your email address provided regards membership opportunities. If you do not wish to be contacted please email and let us know at regions@ciltuk.org.uk

Regards

Communities Team

When: 27 March 2025, 09:00 - 13:00
Where: Reading College, Kings Road, Reading, RG1 4HJ
Speaker: Various Speakers

Logistics and transport businesses have long bemoaned the lack of basic skills relevant to their sectors among school leavers. School leavers in turn appear to have little appreciation of the varied and exciting roles that are available to them in the wonderful world of logistics. Their views (and those of their training providers and gatekeepers such as parents and career advisers!) are often limited to Hi-Viz jackets, sheds and trucks.  This is YOUR opportunity to shape the training given to potential employees to meet the needs of YOUR business and industry.

The Thames Valley Group are calling for delegates to join the joint Workforce Development Partnership (WDP) workshop with Thames Valley Chambers of Commerce, colleges, training providers, career advisers, the Berkshire Careers Hub and fellow professional logistics and transport leaders in Reading College – free parking is available to those who register to attend.

After the last WDP in November 2024, Banbury and Bicester College is already looking to provide a new Haulage and Logistics pathway incorporating exciting curriculums including logistics, warehousing, supply chain and transport management encompassing road, rail, sea, and air with a cross-cutting theme of digital literacy and skills, so your voice really does matter.

We recognise that you need to be the employer of choice, not last resort if we are to attract the talent you need.  We must ‘sell’ our profession to young potential employees, dispel the Hi-Viz and Yorkie Bar myth and excite them about our wonderful sector, and the progress they can make in it (it should be noted that 2 in 3 logistics managers do not have a degree).  Following the WDP we are therefore running a walk-around showcase event for college students, their lecturers and career advisors supported by the Berkshire Careers Hub. We need you to join us and engage with this young talent for a couple of hours after the WDP.  We would love you to come and briefly explain to students how much more than sheds and trucks there is to logistics in a format that is easy and ‘least effort’ to you – a two or three slide rolling presentation, a piece of interesting kit or just one of your own young employees who can inspire students to look at our profession – and raise your profile amongst a talented and potential future workforce.

Experts from sustainable supply chains, telemetrics. transport planning and Defence logistics are already signed up to the Showcase – come and ‘sell’ your specialisation to our future talent, their educators, training providers and careers advisers and prove there is more to life than Hi-Viz!

To make a booking: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1139830215859?aff=oddtdtcreator

Note: If you are not a current Member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, please be aware our membership team may be in touch with you using your email address provided regards membership opportunities. If you do not wish to be contacted please email and let us know at regions@ciltuk.org.uk

When: 27 March 2025, 15:00 - 17:00
Where: Panmure House, 4 Lochend Close, Edinburgh EH8 8BL 
Speakers: Ed Sweeney, Professor of Logistics & Supply Chain Management at Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University
Adam Dixon, Adam Smith Professor of Sustainable Capitalism at Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University 

Home of Adam Smith, the ‘Father of Economics’’ between 1778 and 1790, seventeenth-century townhouse Panmure House 
off Edinburgh’s Canongate was rescued from dereliction by Heriot-Watt University in 2007, and now houses the University’s centre for social and economic debate and research. Professors Ed Sweeney and Adam Dixon will tell us how their stewardship of Smith’s home keeps them true to the spirit that the great man was also the Father of Logistics. The event will comprise a lecture, followed by a Q&A session, and a tour of the house. There will also be networking opportunities before and after the formal proceedings. 

Booking for Members-FREE

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Booking for Non-Members-£5 inc VAT

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Note: If you are not a current Member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, please be aware our membership team may be in touch with you using your email address provided regards membership opportunities. If you do not wish to be contacted please email and let us know at regions@ciltuk.org.uk


Competencies:
SC1.1 Supply Chain Networks, Design and Optimisation.