Fast becoming recognised as the UK’s leading intermodal transport event, Multimodal 2009 has lined up a series of experienced and informed speakers to address delegates at its conference at Birmingham’s NEC on 28th – 29th April 2009.
This year, Multimodal 2009 will include a specialist conference organised by leading procurement experts Trade Extensions. This event will feature new research findings, outline new political moves, and will highlight new procurement methodologies and innovative risk-management strategies.
The first day of the conference will offer a political overview of the UK and Europe’s present logistics & transportation market – and will consider what the future may hold. The session will be introduced by the conference Chairman, Steve Agg, Chief Executive, Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, and will include a keynote presentation by the Department for Transport.
In addition, Joe Critchley, Vice President, Trade Extensions will address the subject of the European Freight Market, examining freight rate trends over the last twelve months and into the future together with shippers’ expected buying patterns.
Day two will be devoted to Green Logistics, Collaboration, Procurement and Risk Management. Dr Anthony Whiteing, Senior Lecturer, at the Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds, will present the results of new research carried out by the “Green Logistics” project, funded by the Engineering and Physical Research Council (EPRSC). This continues an important theme initiated at last year’s Multimodal Conference, and will be the first time that these particular findings of the “Green Logistics” project will have been presented in public.
James Hookham, Managing Director, Policy and Communications, Freight Transport Association, will forecast from a European perspective the challenges facing both shippers and logistics service providers in the coming months.
This will be followed by a presentation by Peter Surtees, Logistics Director, Kimberley Clark entitled “Collaboration – The Shipper Calls The Shots!” – a study into how Kimberley Clark and Kellogg’s have raised shipper collaboration to new heights. Peter Surtees will outline some of the strategies used, and outline future developments.
The afternoon session will feature two presentations. Frank Thewhisen, Vice President, AT Kearney and Head, European Procurement, will speak on “Unique Procurement Strategies” – outlining his organisation’s collaborative purchasing methodology and their use of advanced technology to help shippers purchase their supply chain needs.
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