Preparations are on for the mega FIATA World Congress 2018 to be held in Delhi and the Federation of Freight Forwarders' Associations in India has started the process at the recent international meet in Malaysia.
The campaign for the “FIATA World Congress 2018” (FWC- 2018), scheduled to be held from September 25 to 29, 2018 at Aerocity in New Delhi, was kickstarted at the FIATA World Congress 2017 in Malaysia (October 4-8, 2017). A delegation comprising 45-odd FFFAI member customs broking companies attended the event in Malaysia to promote FWC-2018 in Delhi.
“We are glad to see the unprecedented enthusiasm among our member associations and companies regarding the FIATA World Congress. Our counterparts and FIATA colleagues in Malaysia had given us a target of 30 delegates to attend the Malaysia event. We have exceeded the number by 15 additional delegates, which indicates the huge success that we are going to achieve in FWC- 2018 in Delhi,” said Debashish Dutta, immediate Past Chairman, FFFAI (Federation of Freight Forwarders' Associations in India), who heads the FIATA World Congress 2018 organising committee.
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