Finance Monthly Global Awards 2018 Edition

FREIGHT FORWARDING ADVISORY FIRM OF THE YEAR ABOUT IAN JENKINS Director of Global Trade Ian has spent over 40 years in the logistics industry, holding senior management and sales positions in both the UK and USA. Before joining Charles Kendall Freight, where he is nowDirector of Global Trade, he worked for 15 years in New Jersey, USA. Ian joined the CKF board of directors in 1998, and has led the company’s remarkable growth globally in both air and sea freight and in the North American market in particular. He has also worked closely with CKF’s portfolio of multinational customers to deliver global solutions on turnkey projects, including risk assessments in some of the world’s more volatile regions. Opposite you can read a short summary of Ian’s entry to the Financial Monthly Global Awards which highlights the customs compliance expertise his company have displayed. CUSTOMS COMPLIANCE EXPERTS Charles Kendall Group is a London based end-to-end supply chain management group with 21 offices in 9 countries globally. Formed in 1945, Charles Kendall’s continued growth reflects their immersion in all elements of the supply chain delivering value added solutions globally. www.charleskendall.com Charles Kendall Freight (CKF) have continued to demonstrate exceptional growth in the ultra-competitive international logistics field by having their service offering centre around adding value and by grounding their services in customs and trade compliance. eu clearance example An example of this immersion is CKF’s involvement as the exclusive Customs Broker and Customs Compliance consultant in the UK and the other 27 EU countries for a market leading e-commerce specialist. For this customer and a portfolio of other global companies CKF manage a design-and-build system from a London based control tower that ensures that every SKU is correctly pre-classified for entry before landing at any point in the EU for clearance. For almost a decade this system has kept our customers 100% compliant in the European Union despite dramatic year-on-year growth. A measurement of the success of this UK based management system is that one major blue chip customer now maintains the same staffing levels in their Global Trade Services group in 2017 as they did three years ago despite seeing 250% growth in their volumes. CKF simultaneously maintain day-to-day Customs-related relationships in 28 countries. A practical indication of the CKF-led initiatives is a system designed to eliminate duty and VAT payments on one customer’s tablet-exports from EU for repair. This CKF designed-and-built system manages the tablets re-exportation to China for repair and ultimate return to the EU. CKF negotiated special clearance processes in the EU and China that allow the tablets to complete this round trip without any additional revenue payments. In addition to designing this programme, CKF also administer this system on a day-to-day basis. In addition CKF have implemented for multiple UK customers an Onward Supply Relief programme for Import traffic transiting through UK airport and seaports that has saved our customers multiple millions of pounds of cash disbursements on VAT. essential i.t. Supporting this success has been the development of imaginative in-house IT solutions that allow CKF to handle both a greater volume and a more diverse range of imports without similar increase in staff numbers employed by ourselves or our customers. CKF embrace the concept of working smarter not harder. www.charleskendall.com For almost a decade this system has kept our customers 100% compliant in the European Union despite dramatic year-on-year growth “ “ Finance Monthly Global Awards 2017 www.finance-monthly.com 44 UNITED KINGDOM