As National Apprenticeship week nears its end, the British International Freight Association has repeated its call for freight forwarding and logistics companies to consider recruiting apprentices.
An Executive Director of BIFA, Carl Hobbis said: “We know it’s a tough call, with the pandemic and the post transition period continuing to disrupt many freight forwarders’ operations.
“There has been a sharp decline in the number of individuals that have started their journey on the International Freight Forwarding specialist apprenticeship.
“Forwarding businesses have many difficult commercial decisions to make, but shelving apprenticeships should not be one of them. It is vital to continue to recruit freight forwarding apprentices and build capacity to start equipping a new generation with the knowledge and skills to face the challenges ahead in the post Brexit and post COVID-19 world.”