BRUFA Attends AFFA Meeting In Indonesia
By Achong Tanjong

Bandar Seri Begawan - Members of the Brunei Freight Forwarders Association (BRUFA) attended the 15th Asean Federation of Forwarders Association (AFFA) annual general meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia recently.

Among the associations that attended the three-day meeting were from Brunei, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, and Vietnam.

Also in attendance were representatives from Japan freight forwarders association, IATA and FIATA.

BRUFA was represented by its president Lawrence Rathinan and secretary-generals KK Yeong and Thomas Koh.

Chairman of AFFA Angelito E Colona opened the meeting, which saw the discussion of various topics such as Asean Transport Cooperation 2005, education and training, liability insurance coverage, trade facilitation and industry issues pertaining to terminal handling charge, and fuel surcharge.

The meeting was also attended by representative from the Asean Secretariat, Honorio R Vitasa, who updated the participants on the 11th Asean Transport Ministers (ATM) meeting held in Vientiane, Lao PDR, November 17-18 which focused on gearing up the transport of the Vientiane Action Programme (VAP) under the Asean Framework Agreement on Multimodal Transport.  -- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

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