English abbreviation: CIFA

Associatioan Member of FIATA

President: Mr.Zhao Huxiang

Vice President of FIATA Extended Board

 

 

      Founded in Beijing on September 6th, 2000, China International Freight Forwarders Association (hereinafter CIFA) is a national agent organization of international freight forwarding industry. It is a social group that all provincial and municipal freight forwarders guilds, international freight forwarding enterprises and enterprises related to freight forwarding can voluntarily join, and it also accepts influential individuals in freight forwarding industry, transportation and logistics field. Now, CIFA has over 500 members (including 24 local international freight forwarders associations from each province, city or autonomous region as group members), including 97 council members and 48 standing council members.

      CIFA's business is under the guidance of the Ministry of Commerce. As a tie and bridge between government and members, CIFA's tenet is: to assist the government to enforce the regulation of our freight forwarding industry; to maintain the business order of international freight forwarding industry; to promote the communication and cooperation among the member enterprises; to safeguard the interests of the industry according to law; to protect members legal rights and to boost the development of foreign trade and international freight forwarding industry; and on behalf of China’s freight forwarding industry; CIFA, as a non-governmental organization, takes part in international trade and transportation affairs and carries out international commercial intercourses, and attends all kinds of related international meetings.

      During the last five years since its foundation, CIFA has done a lot of work acting as media between government and enterprises in listening and reporting freight forwarding enterprises’ voices and firmly safeguarding their legal rights.

      CIFA receives credits and approval from government, freight forwarding enterprises as well as from all other circles of the society for its pioneering contribution in promoting the development of freight forwarding industry.