The British Worldwide Freight Affiliation (BIFA) has added new modules to the Bitesize eLearning programme that it launched earlier this yr as a part of the company membership price.
The brand new modules complement the prevailing CDS Compliance course and embody quite a lot of Customs regimes together with Returns Items Reduction, Short-term Admission, and Inward Processing for imports; in addition to Outward Processing, Export from a Customs Warehouse and Customary Export.
While the preliminary CDS Compliance is a compulsory module, centred round an import home-use declaration, and outlining potential penalties of compliance errors, the brand new modules can every be undertaken individually.
BIFA Bitesize is a collection of eLearning that has been developed as a part of BIFA’s ongoing dedication to supply quite a lot of coaching choices, aimed toward enhancing data in areas important to freight forwarding, customs compliance, and worldwide commerce.
Along with CDS Compliance, the primary rendition of BIFA Bitesize content material featured extracts from the prevailing BIFA Freight Forwarding and Customs Necessities programs.
A few of the key subjects embody: Making ready to Commerce; Incoterms 2020; Inward and Outward Processing; Customs Warehousing; Classification; Returned Items Reduction; Paying HMRC, and Process Codes.
Carl Hobbis, member companies director at BIFA, who has administration accountability for the commerce affiliation’s coaching and growth companies mentioned: “BIFA’s Bitesize eLearning initiative is designed to supply full buying and selling members with limitless entry to eLearning, giving alternatives for them to upskill their groups, and is all a part of the membership price.
“Since its launch, the response has been super with 1,300 energetic customers, and nearly 4,000 programs accomplished.
“At its launch, we mentioned the inclusion of this eLearning platform as a part of the usual membership subscription of full members is a sport altering transfer for a commerce affiliation within the sector. It’s proving to be so.”
Steve Parker, director normal of BIFA added: “We’re at all times striving to supply distinctive worth to our members through quite a lot of coaching choices, which help the skilled growth of their workers.
“Every module has been fastidiously curated to help each newcomers and skilled professionals within the business, making certain that each one workers of each member has entry to up-to-date and related primary coaching.”
