Iata announces new cargo programme

Geneva - The International Air Transport Association (Iata) and the International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations (Fiata) announced that an agreement has been signed by Tony Tyler, Iata’s director general and CEO and Huxiang Zhao, president of Fata, to implement the Iata-Fiata Air Cargo Programme (IFACP) to replace the existing Iata Cargo Agency Programme.

Over the decades that the Iata Cargo Agency Programme has operated, Iata Cargo Agents (freight forwarders) have evolved from being “selling-agents” for airlines to being their “purchasing-customers”. In consideration of this evolution, in 2012 Iata and Fiata joined forces to review, refine and re-engineer the existing Agency Programme.

The new programme moves decision-making on the rules governing the airline-forwarder relationship away from an airline-led conference to a governance body - the Iata-Fiata Governance Board (IFGB) - jointly managed by forwarders and airlines, which reflects current market conditions.