2019 FIATA World Congress, Cape Town, South Africa, October 2019
This year's FIATA World Congress was held in Cape Town attracting 800 participants, 60 exhibitors and provided an opportunity for delegates to network 15 hours a day on average. Congress session covered topics such as Brexit, digitalization, modern slavery, education, freight security, attracting young talent and many more.
FIATA's General Assembly chose its new president Mr. Basil Pietersen hailing from South Africa and also chose its new 2022 FIATA Congress host to be Panama. Before concluding the congress, two key milestones were struck with FIATA agreeing to move its headquarters from Zurich to Geneva, to be close to international bodies, and merging the Advisory Body Vocational Training and FIATA Logistics Academy to create an institute named FIATA Logistics institute.
TRAFFIC and FIATA Launch Digital Course for Freight Forwarders
FIATA and TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network, launched a new digital course "Prevention of Wildlife Trafficking" during the FIATA World Congress 2019 in Cape Town, South Africa on October 4th.
Recognising that wildlife traffickers exploit the interconnected freight sector, the three-hour digital course provides freight forwarders with essential information to detect, respond to, and report instances of wildlife trafficking. The course is available, free of charge through the FIATA Logistics Academy and was developed in partnership with TRAFFIC with support from USAID through the Wildlife Trafficking Response Assessment and Priority Setting (Wildlife TRAPS) Project.
For more details, please visit: https://fiata.com/media/press-releases/2019/4-october-1911.html
FIATA Updates Model Rules on Freight Forwarding Services
FIATA released an updated version of the FIATA Model Rules for Freight Forwarding Services during its 2019 World Congress in Cape Town, South Africa. This revision took into account various changes in the business landscape and legal requirement of the logistics and freight forwarding industry in the past 20 years.
FIATA President Babar Badat commented, "The Model Rules along with the FIATA documents such as the FIATA Multimodal Transport Bill of Lading, play critical roles in setting basic service standards and aligning the forwarder's responsibility on a global scale. FIATA will keep updating these documents to reflect new business practices and regulatory requirements."
For access to the document, please go to: https://fiata.com/media/documents-for-download.html
Young Freight Forwarders Honoured at FIATA World Congress
For over twenty years both FIATA, the global federation of international logistic service providers and freight forwarders, and TT Club, the specialist insurer for the freight and logistics industry, have championed the development of young professionals in freight forwarding. Now in its twenty-second year, the Young International Freight Forwarder of the Year (YIFFY) Award has been supported by both organisations in order to promote this mission.
The winner of this year's award, announced on Friday at the FIATA World Congress in Cape Town, is Mrs Evgeniya Khokhlova, who represents Region Europe and is a Specialist in Project Logistics for SVH-Freight in Russia.
For more details, please visit: https://fiata.com/media/press-releases/2019/7-october-1912.html … read more