Experience

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  ICAL International Customs And Logistics Pty Ltd

  • Tullamarine Melbourne Airport

  • Director

    • Feb 1995 - Present
    • Tullamarine Melbourne Airport

    With over 30 years experience in International Trade I have both the practical and academic skills needed to teach exporters and importers about being street-wise when conducting their international trade and transport. I own an international freight forwarding and customs broking business at Melbourne Airport with offices around Australia, a full 3PL computerised e-commerce warehouse, a company that is one of the largest suppliers of plastic pallets into the Australian market and have a very successful lecturing bussines which sees me traversing all over Australia working for government departments, Chamber of Commerce, multi-nationals and private companies. I worked in international banking prior to becoming an international freight forwarder, and have been lecturing on this subject for almost 20 years. I publishes regular newsletters on the subjects of international trade, transport, banking and letter of credit issues, and I'm a member of several committees that study and advise on ways of improving international trade conditions and reducing fraud in trade.I was also on the Australian Banking committee for the reversion of the UCP600 being the rules the govern Letter of Credits (LC).

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  TGL Medical

  • Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

  • Director

    • Aug 2020 - Present
    • Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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  International Sourcing Solutions

  • Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

  • Director

    • May 2020 - Present
    • Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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  PlasticPallets.com.au

  • Tullamarine

  • Director

    • Jan 1999 - Present
    • Tullamarine

    www.PlasticPallets.com.au is one of Australia's leading suppliers of new and 2nd hand plastic pallets into the Australian market..

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  Smith Lewis and Staff Pty Ltd

  • Melbourne Airport

  • Director

    • Jul 2019 - Present
    • Melbourne Airport

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  Mark Coleman Consulting

  • Melbourne Australia

  • Director

    • Jan 1999 - Present
    • Melbourne Australia

    Offerings in-house export, import and Letter of Credit (L/C) training. Giving practical advice and guidance to new and experience importer and exporters. Have completed many training programs for government departments, chambers of commerce's and some of the worlds largest multi-national companies.

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  Australian Chamber of International Trade

  • Director

    • Jun 2014 - Jun 2016

    The aim of the Australian Chamber of International Trade Ltd is to help importers and exporters and potential importers and exporters to succeed in international markets by providing a strong and effective forum for the sharing of experience, international trade knowledge and information.

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  Westpac

  • Melbourne Head Office

  • International Trade

    • May 1989 - Feb 1995
    • Melbourne Head Office

    Handing Letter of Credits (L/C), foreign currencies, forward exchange cover (FEC, Options etc), Telegraphic Transfers (TT), training new staff, and customer service.