Proliferation of Associations Exposes Freight Forwarders as Non-professionals – CRFFN Registrar
• Considers merger of associations
By Francis Ugwoke
The Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN) Wednesday said proliferation of associations of customs agents, brokers or freight forwarders as the case may be over the years has exposed many of the practitioners as non-professionals.
The management team of the Council who spoke during an interactive session with newsmen at the end of the two-day sensitization workshop for freight forwarders held in Lagos maintained that real professionals cannot be involved in proliferation of associations.
Registrar of the Council, Barr Sam Nwakohu referred to what happens other professional bodies of lawyers, doctors, engineers, among others where he said there is nothing like proliferation of associations as the case in the freight forwarding industry.
Nwakohu said he has had to cope with the situation of having to deal with leaders of the various associations.
He said that his Council was working hard to ensure that professionalism is enthroned among the practitioners irrespective of which association they belong.
He also added that the wish of the Council would be to collapse all the associations into one body under a merger arrangement.
According to him, this will be healthier in the industry than the prevalent situation, adding that customs agents or freight forwarders as the case may be would be better united than having too many associations.
The Council however assured that a lot of programmes have been designed to ensure that the professionals are transformed through training.
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