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What is CIFFA?
CIFFA Mission Statement
Our mission is to represent and support members of the Canadian international freight forwarding industry in providing the highest level of quality and professional services to their clients.
Mandat de L’ATIC
Notre mandat consiste à représenter et appuyer les membres de l’association des transitaires internationaux du Canada afin qu’ils puissent offrir à leurs clients des services professionnels de qualité supérieure.
The Canadian International Freight Forwarders
Association was founded September 1948 in Montreal by a small
group of freight forwarders who saw a need to create an industry
association to meet the professional demands of its members.
Read the newsclips
which appeared in various trade publications at that time.
The conditions of the original charter read:
To
unite into a cohesive organization, as bona fide freight
forwarders, those engaged in the business of foreign
freight forwarding.
To support and protect the character, status, and
interest of foreign freight forwarders by establishing
uniform trade practice and regulations and eliminating
trade evils and abuses.
To adjust disputes and difficulties
between members and others and to establish and
promulgate generally proper rules and regulations for
arbitrating same.
To deal with all questions
affecting the interests of foreign freight forwarders at
large, and to initiate and watch over, and if necessary
to petition Parliament in relation to legislation or
measure affecting foreign freight forwarders to procure
changes of law or practice or routine or regulations, or
to promote improvement in the principles or trade in its
relation to the business of the members of this
Association.
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While these principles remain unchanged to this day, the
Association and its members have come a long way since those early
beginnings.
Today the Association represents members in
three divisions:
- Eastern Division
is responsible for the Province of Quebec and all points East,
- Central Division
is responsible for Ontario, and Manitoba
- Western Division
is responsible British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Alberta
The National Board of Directors, elected each
year at the Association’s annual general meeting, oversees the
activities of the Association on a National level, dealing with
subjects of both National and International importance to its
members.
Greater recognition of CIFFA and its members has
been achieved through significant and on-going efforts to
professionalize the activities of the freight forwarding industry
in Canada. The Association’s members, as required by the by-laws,
adhere to recognized standard
trading conditions, have forwarder’s liability insurance
including errors and omissions, and have access to a training
program through the CIFFA
education system to ensure the professional quality of their
staff.
Whether shipper, importer or freight forwarder,
the Canadian International Freight Forwarders Association is
important to you. As a freight forwarder, it provides you with the
opportunity to rank yourself as a true professional in this
industry. As a shipper or importer, it provides a source of
professional level transportation services and a facility through
which grievances can be aired, that being the Ethics and Standards
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