Logistics to Power the World
Over 380 delegates attended the 2015 Annual Conference of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) in Sri Lanka. The theme of the highly successful event held in Colombo on 19 November was “Logistics to power the world”
Eran Wickramaratne, Deputy Minister of State Enterprise Development, pointed out that the Logistics Service Sector can play a lead role in bringing economic prosperity to Sri Lanka and highlighted the vitality of developing this sector.
Finance Minister, Ravi Karunanayake, Minister of Ports and Shipping, Arjuna Ranatunge and State minister of International Trade, Sujeewa Senasinghe, also participated in this event.
Jan Steenberg, International Vice President and Chairman of the International Education Standards Committee represented the International Council of Trustees at the event. He addressed delegates on the importance of Continuing Professional Development and discussed how this is supported by the Institute
Keeping your knowledge and skills up to date in today’s fast-changing world of work is vitally important. As an Institute it is our obligation to provide a framework to do so.
Gayani De Alwis, Vice Chairperson of CILT Sri Lanka, presented Jan with a token of appreciation on behalf of the organising committee in Sri Lanka
View further images of the event here
Read Jan’s presentation here
Read a report from The Island newspaper here