As part of Fedespedi, Global Shipping also belongs to FIATA, the global voice of freight logistics.
FIATA – International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations – is a non-governmental organisation that brings together the world’s national federations of the transport, logistics and forwarding industry: it currently directly and indirectly represents around 40,000 companies employing around 10 million people in 150 countries worldwide.
The main goals of FIATA are:
• to increase awareness of the activities and services offered by international forwarding companies through targeted information and communication activities;
• to improve the quality of the services offered by international forwarding companies, through the identification of internationally recognised and applied best practices;
• to assist international forwarding companies by offering continuous training, legal and insurance assistance, new IT and technological tools for data exchange.
