The Federation of Freight Forwarders’ Associations
in India (FFFAI), a member of International Federation of Freight Forwarders
Associations (FIATA), representing India, has awarded the FFFAI Young Logistics
Professionals Award for 2023 to Mr Nitesh Kumar, Assistant Marketing Manager,
Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. FFFAI has nominated him for the ‘FIATA
YLP-YIFFA Award-2023’ from India. Mr Nitesh Kumar is a B. Tech in Marine
Engineering.
FFFAI
annually invites nominations from young logistics professionals for the FIATA
YLP Award,
and there were several nominations received by the Federation this year too.
The objective is to promote young logistics professionals from India to contest
in the highly prestigious International Award, organised by FIATA along with TT
Club.
Congratulating the winner and conveying his best
wishes to all participants Mr Shankar Shinde, Chairman, FFFAI, on behalf of the
juries and other members, said, “I am happy to note the enthusiasm of the
participants to get the FIATA YLP YIFFA Award for India. This will showcase the Indian youth talent in logistics and also create
leadership positions.” In his opinion, the Award attracts and encourages
the next generation to look for opportunities in the logistics industry by
choice to have new innovative talent in the industry. “It was good to witness
last year FFFAI-nominated Avishkar Srivastava winning FIATA YLP Award for Asia
Pacific Region and reaching the final runner up for FIATA YLP International
Award. I am confident that we will be able to achieve this award for India this
year as well with the capability of the candidate nominated,” said the FFFAI
Chairman.
FFFAI had invited self-nominations from Logistics
Service Providers to encourage/promote young logistics professionals to have
international exposure by demonstrating domain knowledge with regard to
logistics business and operations. The response was overwhelming.