Category: News

The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport is pleased to announce Dato’ Ts Abd Radzak Abd Malek FCILT as International President Elect. Radzak will assume the Presidency in January 2020.

Pat Davies and his family emigrated to New Zealand in 2007. Since then Pat has been working in various management roles within the RNZAF, including supply chain management, warehousing and receipt and dispatch, and as the manager for the flying squadron stores.

CILT National update: the CILT President and President-Elect for the 2017-2019 period have been chosen.

An announcement from the President-elect and Section Chair 2017-2018, Keith Robinson.

Minutes for the 2016 National AGM are now available.

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

Thank you to Synlait Milk Limited for hosting the Southern Section of Young Professionals on a site tour of the Dunsandel facilities.

Thank you to the staff at Midland Port, Rolleston, Caterbury for hosting members and guests of CILT Southern Section on their site.

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.

Minutes for the AGM and Section meeting on 1st September are now available.

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!

The Bay of Plenty section had a visit to the Tauranga Traffic Operations Centre recently and then later in the day also hosted the LFTF Group, who were completing the BOP part of the programme at the Tauranga Club, Devonport Towers.

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.