CIFFA 2024 Membership Directory

4 | 2024 CIFFA Membership Directory • Répertoire des membres de l’ATIC 2024 2024 MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY PRESIDENT’S SPEECH Dear CIFFA Members Every year brings new challenges and opportunities to our industry and this year will be no different. Increasingly we’ve observed the transformation of hot spots into global events that directly affect us. Examples include unrest in the South China Sea, Red Sea, Middle East, Africa, and European conflicts. Climate change and natural disasters like volcanoes, floods, drought, and extreme heat and cold directly impact how we do business. Impromptu and unpredictable remarks by world leaders cause repercussions at a speed that have many of us spinning as we try to adjust and create stability in a new normal. None of this will change in 2024. CIFFA continues its steady leadership as we pass our 75th year and head into the future of logistics. We could not do anything without our members. Thank you for your support of our Association. As always, we welcome you and the valuable input and contribution that you provide to strengthen our industry. To our longstanding members, we wish to thank you for your continued loyalty, and for those who have joined us recently, thank you for helping us continue our work as the trusted advisor to our industry since 1948. CIFFA has recently extended its regular membership categories to encompass drayage operators, 3PL load brokers, warehouse operators and Customs Brokers. All of these sectors are an integral part of the supply chain and collectively this will strengthen our voice and provide a broader reach. CIFFA’s path and focus have not changed throughout the decades, prioritizing the three important pillars of Membership, Advocacy and Education to drive our success. When people deal with a CIFFA member, they know they’re working with trained professionals who carry Cargo Liability Insurance and who abide by the FMCSA Surety bond requirement. Established organizations and businesses trust that reputation. Membership with CIFFA also helps protect your business. CIFFA Standard Trading Conditions (STCs) can only be used by a CIFFA member. These conditions, which govern the relationship between CIFFA regular member firms and their clients, are regularly upheld in Canadian courts. Members can also benefit from special pricing on all events, education, training initiatives and obtain further savings through CIFFA’s Affinity Program. The CIFFA Affinity program is designed exclusively for the benefit of our members. The goal is to add value for all member firms and their employees through special offerings. We hope to continue the strong tradition of delivering quality events to our members. This year, CIFFA will celebrate its 75th anniversary with a conference in April. Thought leaders will come together to better understand opportunities and risks in the new global supply chain world and to share evolutionary and revolutionary thinking in the movement of goods in today’s global supply chains. As we have noted, there is great uncertainty and volatility in the world economy and in global markets affecting the supply chain. For this reason, our work on the Advocacy front has become paramount to the success of the association and to facilitating how CIFFA members do business. We are involved in various committees, both domestic and international, representing CIFFA on matters like air cargo, marine, rail, trucking, drayage, customs, regulatory, sustainability and technology. We maintain excellent relationships with supply chain partners and with our sister associations. We always look for opportunities to combine efforts and to share our respective strengths. We are the trusted advisors to our members, international partners and government legislators. Supply chain issues in Canada tend to be siloed, each sector dealing with their issues in isolation, without regard for the greater impact to the supply chain overall. This is something that CIFFA is fighting to change. Our approach is to be proactive, not reactive, and it has long been our position that we must work collaboratively on common solutions if we are to enable real change. Together with our lobbyist, we are trying to break the siloes down, and bring all stakeholders to the table, to collaborate on supply chain issues for positive action and outcomes. To that end, we are very proud of our considerable achievements over the course of 2023 and so far this year. • We consulted with the federal government’s newly created National Supply Chain task force to provide input towards its National Supply Chain Task Force Report. CIFFA also participated in the inaugural National Supply Chain Forum, hosted by the recently launched Supply Chain Office in December 2023. • We held regularly scheduled meetings with rail, freight forwarder, drayage and customs partners on congestion and clearance issues for containers at the ports and rail terminals. • We have pushed back on unfair application of detention and demurrage charges through the Competition Bureau, Transport Canada and via our legal counsel. • We have been witnesses on the federal Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities. • CIFFA is regularly invited to provide comment on changes to the Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act, The Customs Act, Transportation Security Clearances and the Canada Transportation Act and associated regulations. • CIFFA is also supportive of the repeal of the Canada Shipping Conferences Exemption Act. There is a direct relationship between the cost of doing business in Canada and the abuse of dominance of shipping conferences. The Government recently undertook a review of the Competition Act where the CIFFA raised this issue. The CIFFA submits that repealing the Shipping Conference Exemption Act would bring positive relief to consumer prices as a companion to reduced taxes. • March 2023-July 2023-CIFFA mounted pressure on the federal government during the West Coast ILWU-BCMEA labour negotiations/strike vote. • October 2023-We published an Executive Director’s blog raising awareness about the ARNON MELO President