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Elliot Price, Convenor of the International CILT Young Professionals, presenting at the CILT International Convention 2017 in Macao.

The New Year will see a new era for The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) as Lieutenant Colonel (Ret) Kevin Byrne takes over from out-going President Paul Brooks.

Like so many young people fresh out of school, Simon Olsen had no firm ideas about his future career – so he joined one of New Zealand’s most progressive FMCG companies and has never looked back. This is his story.

Some months ago, Murray King wrote about the International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) decision to require that all loaded containers in international trade should have their weight verified, so called Verified Gross Mass or VGM. Up until now the obligation to declare the weight has not always been accurately complied with. So the IMO has introduced mechanisms by which the weight is independently verified.

Congratulations to Simon Olsen CILT NZ, Runner up in the 2016 Young International Achiever of the Year!

Graeme Marshall’s decades-long involvement in the ports industry began in his mid-20s. Mr Marshall spent 19 years at Napier Port, ending up as general manager, then moved to Port of Tauranga (POT) in 1997. He was commercial manager as Tauranga grew to become the country’s leading port, stepping down in 2013 to take up a range of director and advisory positions.

There was a very positive national and international response to the first “Last Mile Humanitarian Logistics on a Shoestring” Article that I wrote for the New Zealand Logistics & Supply Chain magazine, FTD. The Vanuatu story is under pinned by how an informal network of logistics professionals cooperated to deliver such a positive result raised significant interest.

Glen-Marie-Burns FCILT took over as President of CILT NZ on Wednesday 21st October at the AGM held where Cormac McBride CMILT took over the position of President-elect and Chin Abeywickrama FCILT now Imm.Past President.

At the International President’s Dinner held in Dubai CILT NZ’s Dr Robin Dunlop, IVP for CILTI, was awarded the Pegasus Medal to mark the recognition of his outstanding services to the Institute especially his work to foster the Young Professionals Group (YP) internationally.

In the wake of Cyclone Pam, 75,000 people of Vanuatu were left homeless, 95% of crops were destroyed, and the country was effectively flattened.

People who live beside Auckland’s Southern Motorway are subjected to air pollution at nearly double the level of those 130m further away. Researchers say preventing people from living within 20m of highways would reduce health risks.