Fiata cargo agency programme hits the buffers

05/04/2019

The seven-years-in-the-making, much-vaunted Fiata/Iata Cargo Agency programme, under which forwarders would no longer be ‘agents’ of the airlines, appears to have come to a halt, with further problems between the two parties.

The programme, evolved from discussions which started in 2012, has seen much turbulence, and while a pilot project eventually began in Canada in August 2017, according to IATA’s website, that is “on hold”.

It says: “The pilot raised some questions among the constituencies Fiata and Iata (related to liability, commercial relationship and the variety ...