2024 Award Winners

The CILT Annual Awards Presentation for 2024 was held in Christchurch on December 6, 2024. It was an opportunity to celebrate excellence across the transport and logistics sectors.

Tayla Shaw of Sorted Logistics , winner of the Rising Star award for 2023 with Diane
Edwards, immediate Past President of CILTNZ. Looking on is Southern Section chair, Dan
Patrick.

Dan Patrick, Southern Section chair, looks on as Mitchell Simpson from Foodstuffs South
Island receives the Young Achiever of the Year award from Immediate Past resident Diane
Edwards.

Dr Ashu Kedia was awarded the CILT Award for ‘Best Published Article’. Professor Alan
Nicholson supervised Ashu’s PhD research at the University of Canterbury.

Dan Patrick, Chair of the Southern Section, CILT, was awarded the trophy for the Best
section.

Chris Gunn was awarded the Bob Owens Memorial award for outstanding services to the
industry, to the institute and for community service. See separate file for the citation.