How to sum up the FIDI conference that took place in Edinburgh from 11-15 May? Well, fortunately, for over 600 of you, there’s no need because you were there.

Most people in the mobility industry have never been to an OMNI (Overseas Moving Network International) conference. It’s not that it’s a secret, far from it, but it is only open to members and invited guests.

The Carbon Trust in the UK has acknowledged the challenges businesses face in their journey to reduce Scope 3 emissions, not only from a data gathering and tracking perspective, but also the difficulties faced in influencing their extended and global value chains.

In the June edition of The Mover, we published a press release from Nuss Relocations in Australia explaining that the company had stopped using plastic packing materials in Sydney.

A report from the Self Storage Association annual conference in Telford.

It’s a perennial problem: how to get corporations and RMCs to fully appreciate the value of the service provided by movers and be willing to pay for it. That was the topic on discussion at one of the FIDI panel discussions in Edinburgh in May entitled: Between Giants and Clients.

Steve Jordan talks to Zenaida Romero and Juerg Degenmann from Mudanzas Internacionales Global in Venezuela to find out how they achieve FAIM certification in a country on the brink of collapse.

I have one of those birthdays coming up. It’s one with a zero on the end that makes us all a little more aware of time passing. My birthday wish, was to climb Ben Nevis.

A report on the recent Britannia conference in Berlin from the company’s marketing and communications manager, Charlotte Parslow.

FINK in Brasil is 100 years old this year. This article looks at the company’s history and the unselfish, unique, charitable, sustainable way in which it celebrated.

Steve Jordan talks to Matt Tebbe, the newly-appointed president and CEO of Cartus, for his views on the industry, and what the future might hold.

Ryan McConnell, President and COO of Atlas Van Lines, looks at his company’s recent Corporate Relocation Survey to extract what HHG carriers need to know.

Steve Jordan interviews Dennis van Diemen, who spent 19 years running Voerman in Moscow, about his company’s painful decision to leave the city in which it blazed a trail for so many years.

Steve Jordan applauds the industry’s recent initiative to provide more sales training, but asks, why it is only now that the ability to sell is being taken seriously?

Alvaro Stein is the CEO of Decapack in Chile and the chairman of the Data Solutions Task Force under the International Association of Movers (IAM). In that role he is focussed on facilitating the seamless exchange of data within the mobility industry.

Thoughts on his passing, by Steve Jordan.

Chris Burke, from Burke Bros in the UK, looks at how some moving companies are making misleading promises about insurance cover and why the term ‘Fully Insured’ is only part of the story

FIDI has completed its annual conference in Edinburgh.

This month I welcome my friend Mark Oakeshott, from Mark Oakeshott Consulting, as a guest contributor to share his thoughts in ‘And Finally…’. Do you have a story to tell? If so, please sent it to me at steve@themover.co.uk.

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