BIFA Regional Members Meeting – Gatwick

The next BIFA Gatwick Regional Members Meeting is on 23rd October 2025 11:00-13:00.

The aim of the meeting is to ensure that you are fully briefed on key issues that may impact your business and to give you the chance to share your views with fellow members.

Guest speakers:

Gatwick representatives will give updates on the Northern Runway project and we will discuss with members how cargo operations and landside slot booking needs to be set up to enable the growth in cargo throughput.

Jeremy Taylor, MD of The Company Connector, works closely with the Gatwick Diamond business community and will share news on the formation of a Parliamentary All Party Policy Group called “The South East Gatwick Diamond Growth Gateway”.
This Policy will have a Transport theme so BIFA will be seeking members views to influence this body on the cargo aspects of the policy.

The re-development of the Heathrow cargo facilities will have a major impact on UK logistics and members.
Andy Cooke, BIFA’s External Affairs Consultant, who is leading our involvement in the re-development project will update the meeting with the latest from the Advisory Body, LHR congestion & AIS rollout meeting held on 29th July.
Mark Bellis, BT’s Head of Strategy and Product Development, and Claudia Carley, Product and Customs, will present:
• How the AIS system currently works
• The plans to add functionality to optimise landside movements for imports and exports
• The implications and benefits of using AIS

Carol Rayfield ,Border Force FEDAT (Freight Engagement and Data), will update on Safety and Security followed by Q&A covering:
• Compliance procedures for ENS declarations and GVMS
• An increasing focus on repercussions with those carriers/intermediaries failing to address notified compliance issues
• Plans for the mandatory use of the ENS declaration MRN within the GMR

We will have updates from the BIFA team on:

• The major review of the BIFA Standard Trading Conditions:
• plans for briefing members and guidance documents
• why incorporation is vital
• examples of the benefits to members
• why incorporation is vital
• Customs: updates from the recent Policy Group meeting held on September 18th
• Air Freight, Road, Rail and Port updates including Dover, London Gateway, Felixstowe and DP World Southampton
• Sustainability Policy Group report including as assessment of the impact of the recent UK-EU Reset Summit
• Member Engagement: scheduled events and improving member contact details accuracy and access to the BIFA website portal
• Training and Development including the new of BIFA bitesize e learning modules accessed via the BIFA portal.

If you’d like to attend this meeting, please register HERE

For further information contact your BIFA Regional Representative, Paul Cunningham (p.cunningham@bifa.org)

***Regional events are open to all full and associate members only***