Airfreight 101

Tony is good in engaging us in real life examples and encourages us to interact and give our opinion on questions our coursemates encounter.

Chew Ee Ling, Executive – Logistics & Customer Service, Self-sponsored.

Lecturer has very wide experience. I know how to read the published rates of air freight, without relying on air cargo agents.

Mohammad Aizat Bin Taha, Business Development Manager, D.F.I. Pte Ltd.

Good fundamental knowledge on air freight operation.

Kong Ting How, Senior Lecturer, RP. 

He has just been re-elected the Senior Vice-President of International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations (FIATA) for the 3^rd term. He had been the Chairman of FIATA Advisory Body Vocational Training (ABVT) from 2005 to 2019 which oversees National Associations’ training programs in over 118 countries, assisting to setup and qualifying the standards of international freight forwarding & logistics training materials/curriculums, and the eventual FIATA Validation of their national training programs. He was chairman of the Working Group on Education & Training under that ASEAN Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations (AFFA).

As a lead global master-trainer for the FIATA Foundation Vocational Training (FFVT) since 2001, Thomas represented the UNCTAD, UNESCAP, ADB, AFFA, FIATA-ABVT/FFVT and many international organizations as resource person and master-lecturer to develop and deliver the Training-of-the-Trainers (TOT) and numerous capacity-building programs spanning Latin America/Mercosur, Middle East/Africa, E.U./Russia, Asia/CAREC/ASEAN, and the Pacific since the past 20 years.

Since 2004, he has been as a senior Steering Group Member and Panel-Judge of the FIATA-Thru Transport Club (TT Club) ‘Young International Freight Forwarders’ Awards’ (YIFFY), now renamed as the ‘Young Logistics Professional’ (YLP) Awards – an international competition to promote and motivate young logistics professionals’ competition.

He is regularly lecturing at the Singapore Management University (SMU) for the national Professional Conversion Programme (PCP) on international trade for industry professionals who seeks to be educated and trained in cross-functional roles to enhance their employability in different industry sectors. He covers Supply Chain & Procurement Management, International Trade Documentation, IOT for SCM (e-Commerce/LMF), Global Supply Chain Safety & Security and Dangerous Goods/Hazardous Substance Handling. He is also currently a Mentor to a group of SMU industry-learners on the PCP Programme. He is also lecturing as a global Adjunct Professor for Golden Gate University (GGU) worldwide based in San Francisco (USA).

He sits in the Singapore Ngee Ann Polytechnic’s Multidiscipline Engineering Division Advisory Committee (MEDAC) and has been the Deputy Chairman of the Business & Services Academic Advisory Committee with the Institute of Technical Education (ITE), Singapore, assisting in the development, review, and qualification of the logistics technical training curriculums, in preparing the pool of Business and Logistics’ Management students for the future entrants to the logistics industry.

He represents the Association in the WSG’s Manufacturing Generic Skills Validation Council (MGSVC) that periodically review and advises the WDA on relevant trends and practices of international and local business communities including the logistics industry as well as current knowledge and skills gaps.

Thomas contributed to the SLA-launched book (September 2006) – “The Practitioner’s Definitive Guide: Multimodal Transport” published by the Singapore National Printers for the logistics industry, which has now published its 3rd Edition and “Managing Logistics and Supply Chain Challenges – Singapore’s Insights and Perspectives” published by Cengage in collaboration with SIM University.

He is humbled with the recognition on the “Global Educational Award 2017” for the numerous Training-the-Trainers (TOT) programmes in Africa for more than 20 Years (1996-2017) bestowed upon him from the Chairman of the African Union (AU), Mr. Maculay Kalu and the Secretary-General of the AU, Dr Beatrice Njenga. On 2nd August 2017, Thomas received another coveted and prestigious national ‘SkillsFuture Fellowships Inaugural Awards’ from the President of Singapore, Dr Tony Tan Keng Yam, and the Singapore Minister for Education, Mr. Ong Yi Kung. This ‘SkillsFuture Fellowships Awards’ is a tripartite initiative, the highest national award that recognizes Singapore Citizens who have acquired deep skills through significant work experiences industries or job functions. Individuals must be champions of lifelong learning and deeply committed to contributing to the skills development of others – ‘Celebrating Mastery, Inspiring Passions’.

As a practiced academia for over 38 years, Dr Thomas Sim can impart valuable industry knowledge to learners.