Mandate of CIFFA’s Airfreight Committee

The mandate of the CIFFA Airfreight Committee is to maintain a powerful, pro-active national forum working on behalf of Canada's International Airfreight Forwarders. It is to maintain ongoing dialogue with air carriers and their worldwide association IATA - to uphold and represent the interests of CIFFA member companies.

In recent years CIFFA has experienced a significant increase in the number of serious issues confronting the airfreight industry and, in particular, the Canadian International Airfreight Forwarder and his/her role as a cargo agent of the airlines. To ensure proper and professional representation on these issues, the committee has structured sub-committees to address individual topics of concern such as CASS, Agency Issues, Public Relations, Education, e-Commerce and the paperless AWB et al. The Committee is committed to the fulfillment of the following mandate:

• To maintain on-going, meaningful dialogue between Canada's International Airfreight Forwarders and airlines, in order to address and resolve mutual and individual issues of concern.
   
• To solicit input from, and distribute information to, members and throughout the airfreight industry and consult with FIATA and AFI and promote on-going dialogue with IATA.
   
• To promote professionalism within the international airfreight industry and to communicate that professionalism to others in the industry, the user groups and the public sector.
   
• To address, negotiate and improve the IATA agent and airline relationship and to ensure that with the emergence of GSA's and GHA's our CIFFA member's
  interests are respected in any agreements.

Today, CIFFA is well recognized by IATA, the Airlines and Transport Canada as the voice of the professional International Airfreight Forwarder in Canada. Mr. Gary Vince of DHL Global Forwarding (Canada) Inc., chairs the committee, and we encourage all our members and Associate members to contact Gary at gary.vince@dhl.com on any topic of interest or concern.