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FIATA World Congress 2018 will be a platform to highlight the importance and opportunities in the sunrise sector of logistics in India before the world
FFFAI has always been at the forefront for promoting India’s manufacturing, exim, forwarding and logistics industry. An upcoming initiative in this regard is the FIATA World Congress 2018 being organized in Delhi with primary aim to highlight the importance and opportunities in this sunrise sector of logistics in India before the world.
Campaign for the “FIATA World Congress 2018” (FWC-2018), which has been scheduled to be held from September 25 to 29, 2018 at Aerocity in New Delhi, kick started from “FIATA World Congress 2017” that took place in Malaysia from October 4 to 8, 2017. A strong delegation comprising some 45 FFFAI member Customs broking companies attended the event in Malaysia to promote the FWC-2018 in Delhi.
“My first priority is creating awareness to make the FIATA World Congress-2018 a great success. Already we are witnessing huge excitement about the mega international logistics event in India among freight forwarding, entire logistics industry and government agencies. As FIATA World Congress has been the benchmarking event for all logistics professionals, FFFAI is committed to make this event a milestone for the development of India’s manufacturing, export/import, forwarding and logistics industry. It would provide an opportunity for interaction on best practices in logistics across the world,” said Ashish Pednekar, Chairman, FFFAI.
“We are glad to see the unprecedented enthusiasm among our member associations and companies regarding the FIATA World Congress,” said Debashish Dutta, immediate Past Chairman, FFFAI, who is heading FIATA World Congress 2018 organising committee. “The world is seriously eyeing at India and we will have to focus on infrastructure and logistics facilities available here to woo international trade community from across the globe. In sync with the present government’s vision of including India in the list of world’s top destinations in terms of trade and commerce, industry, manufacturing hub, etc, FFFAI would not leave any stone unturned to make the FWC in 2018 an all-time successful event.“
The FWC-2018 would be attended by a record number of 1500 delegates (800 overseas and 700 Indian) including Customs Brokers, other logistics professionals, experts, academicians and government representatives, Dutta maintained.
Team FFFAI will visit Dubai, Africa, Europe and other parts of the world to promote the 2018 event through road shows. In addition, FFFAI will be hosting seminars/ workshops across India where all participants in Malaysia event would take special role in their respective areas to explain the importance and benefits of attending FIATA World Congress. “We are also planning to organize a Curtain Raiser programme early 2018 in New Delhi with participation from Central Ministers.
Our aim is to highlight the importance and opportunities in this sunrise sector, i.e. logistics sector in India before the world. Also, we would like to focus on the fast changing industryfriendly ecosystem in India which is being jointly formulated and led by the government of India and industry stakeholders. At this event FFFAI will focus on brand India and trade facilitation initiatives which include current policies on manufacturing and exim trade, connectivity, infrastructure, IT and skill development, etc by the government and industry together,” Dutta shared.
“FWC-2018 would be a huge business and networking event where Indian freight forwarders, transport & logistics companies and allied sectors including exporters/importers would get opportunities to interact with their Indian and overseas counterparts. Business-first is our primary objective to hold FWC in India and we are hopeful there would be a significant number of MoUs signed between various companies and organizations,” Dutta concluded.
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