FIATA History

FIATA International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations was founded on 31 May 1926 by 16 organisations representing the freight forwarding profession across Europe.

Zentralverband der Spediteure, Vienna, Austria
Allgemeiner Möbeltransportverband, Vienna, Austria
Fédération Nationale des Entrepreneurs de Transport de Belgique, Antwerp, Belgium
Udruženje Speditera Kraljevine S.H.S., Zagreb, Croatia
GLOBUS Association of Czechoslovak Freight Forwarders and Removal Agents, Prague, then Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic
Svaz československých zasilatelů, Prague, then Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic
Nordisk Speditør-Forbund, Copenhagen, Denmark
Dansk Møbeltransport-Forening, Copenhagen, Denmark
Verein Deutscher Spediteure e.V., Berlin, Germany
National Association of Hungarian Forwarders, Budapest, Hungary
Scheepvaart Vereeniging Noord, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Lemberger Spediteur-Verein, Lviv, then Poland, now Ukraine
Schweizerischer Spediteure-Verband, Bern, Switzerland
London Shipping and Forwarding Agents’ Conference, London, United Kingdom

FIATA’s founding objective was to unite freight forwarding organisations from different territories to safeguard and promote their common professional and economic interests.