Ports, Maritime & Waterways Events

When: 14 January 2025, 17:30 - 19:00
Where: Zoom Meeting
Speaker: Stephen Tindale, Harbour Master/Pilot, Newhaven Port & Properties Ltd

Steve will tell us about the operations of the port including the use of the berths, a bit about the Newhaven/Dieppe ferry and its unusual manoeuvres, some interesting statistics, and decarbonisation plans for the future.

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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:

• FM1.1 Freight Transport Operations and Services
• TP1.2 Transport Nodes and Connecting Links
• SUS1.1 Social, Economic and Environmental Resilience

When: 20 January 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Where: Zoom Webinar
Speakers: 

• Mark Goodall, Route Director Wessex, Network Rail
• Greg March , Freight Business Development Manager (South), Railfreight Team, Network Rail/GBRTT
• David Fletcher, Rail Director, Cappagh
• Julian Worth, Chair - CILT Rail Freight Forum -“ Industry Update”

The Rail Freight Forum programme for 2025 begins with two more inspiring speakers from Network Rail. Mark Goodall, Route Director Wessex will draw upon his experience in the industry to talk about “Leadership in rail freight in 2025”

Greg March, Freight Business Development Manager, will focus upon “New Energies”. These topics underscore the ways in which today's railway continues to innovate and develop means of carrying more of the essential goods we need and want. They look to a future in which the railway becomes more digitally driven, with new skills to be learned and new jobs created for people from all backgrounds. 

The concluding part of the evening will be the “Industry Update” from the Forum Chair, Julian Worth. Each presenter will speak for 20 minutes, allowing 10 minutes for Question & Answer sessions.

In the year in which RAILWAY 200 celebrates the pioneering opening of the Stockton & Darlington Railway on 27th September 1825, the Rail Freight Forum looks towards the next 200 years in which the railway will continue to play a central role in British life and sustainable national prosperity. This virtual event is open to all CILT members from across the Nations and Regions, as well as colleagues in other CILT for a. We especially wish to engage with professional logisticians and supply chain managers, with an unrivalled opportunity to enhance Continuing Professional Development CPD

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Booking for Members-FREE

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Booking for Non Members - £5.00 inc. VAT
To book scroll to the bottom of this page, tick the T & C's box and click Book on event, if you have any difficulties email us at forums@ciltuk.org.uk quoting event code: RF0359 with your Full name, title and company and we will book your place for you.


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 forums@ciltuk.org.uk

• FM1.1 Freight Transport Operations and Services
• LE1.1 Leadership, Organisational Culture and Change Management
• DT2 Technology, Modelling and Simulation

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.


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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

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

When: 05 February 2025, 19:00 - 20:30
Where: University of Kent Business School, Sibson building, Parkwood Road, Canterbury and on Zoom
Speaker: Doug Bannister , Chief Executive, Port of Dover

Ports are capital intense infrastructure businesses, where decisions made today will have consequences for decades. Each year billions are invested into ports around the world, and ports must evaluate a vast array  of considerations when determining their current and future investments. This talk will explore the process, results and considerations that the Port of Dover recently undertook in developing their Port 2050 master plan.

NB Joint Meeting with the University of Kent, Kent Business School Centre for Logistics and Heuristic Optimisation


Booking for Members & Non-Members -FREE

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Competencies:

• SC1.1 Supply Chain Networks, Design and Optimisation
• FM1.1 Freight Transport Operations and Services
• FM2.3 Local, National and International Distribution Networks

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. 

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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.

When: 10 June 2025, 17:30 - 19:00
Where: Zoom Webinar
Speaker: Chris Tomlinson, Development & Stakeholder Manager, Rampion2

With Newhaven Port as operations and maintenance base and with the successful construction of the first 116 turbines in Rampion completed in 2018, Chris will give us an update on Rampion 2 - the project to build more turbines to provide power to over 1 million more homes - the offshore wind farm design, which is the subject of ongoing refinement, and the onshore electricity cable route required to bring the power from the proposed wind farm to the new Oakendene substation.

Booking for Members-FREE


Booking for Non Members - £5.00 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
• SUS1.1 Social, Economic and Environmental Resilience  of the Supply Chain