The Federation of Freight Forwarders’ Associations in India (FFFAI) has decided to extend the registration for FIATA World Congress-2018 (FWC-2018) up to March 31. FFFAI is hosting the FWC-2018, the mega international logistics event first time taking place in India, from September 26-29, 2018, at Pullmann Novotel Hotel, Aerocity in New Delhi. With the theme ‘The Future Starts Here’ the Congress will be attended by more than 1200 domestic and international delegates from the logistics and supply chain industry, from more than 120 countries. Apart from business sessions on various crucial topics pertaining to customs broking, freight forwarding and logistics industry there will be break-out meetings such as B2B networking meetings and an exhibition trade fair will also be organised on the side-lines of this Congress. The B2B meetings are scheduled one day prior to the congress and one day after the main congress i.e. September 25-29, 2018. Meanwhile, the online registration for the FIATA World Congress 2018 has commenced and members/delegates can register themselves for the congress on http://www.fiata2018.org.
Commenting on the importance of “FWC 2018” in India, Amit Kamat, Hon. Secretary, FFFAI and Congress Coordinator, FWC 2018 maintained, “Enormous economic changes are envisaged throughout the world and here in India the freight forwarding and logistics industry has to meet big challenges, and FFFAI will be hosting the event, which is a matter of great pride and prestige for FFFAI in particular and Indian logistics industry in general.”