In an apparent realisation of the level of professional inadequacy among many freight forwarding practitioners, the new chairman, Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN), Hakeem Olanrewaju, has promised to focus on training and retraining of freight forwarders and to leverage on Nigeria’s recent admission by the International Federation of Freight Forwarders (FIATA).
He made this promise as part of his acceptance speech after winning the elections and his subsequent swearing- in before the formal inauguration by the Minister of Transport, Yusuf Suleiman. Speaking to newsmen shortly after the election, the new chairman confirmed that majority of those who applied for registration as freight forwarders only have secondary school certificates and added that even though they are practitioners, there is need for this category of people to search for knowledge and that the industry would ultimately be the better for it.
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