AFFA Mid-Year 2023 in Da Nang Focuses on Green and Sustainable Logistics

Summary

AFFA members met in Da Nang in 2023 to discuss how ASEAN logistics cooperation can support greener, more sustainable, and better connected supply chains.

This article is an AFFA editorial rewrite based on the source cited below. It is published to help freight forwarders, national associations, and logistics partners follow regional developments without treating the source text as an AFFA statement unless AFFA is directly named in the source.

Regional context

The source notes that the conference addressed trans-border logistics conditions, human resources, and digitalisation, all of which remain central to ASEAN freight forwarding competitiveness.

For ASEAN freight forwarding, the practical issue is not only whether a meeting, report, or programme has been announced. The more important question is how the development changes day-to-day readiness: documentation, customs coordination, multimodal planning, technology adoption, training, and communication between national associations.

Relevance for AFFA members

The meeting gives member associations a useful reference point for aligning training, operational standards, and sustainability priorities across national markets.

Members can use this update as a prompt to review country-level priorities, identify where association advocacy is needed, and prepare more consistent information for shippers, carriers, customs brokers, ports, airports, technology partners, and public agencies.

Operational takeaways

Freight forwarders should track the policy timeline, compare it with customer demand, and translate regional themes into concrete service improvements. Useful next steps include mapping affected corridors, checking data and document standards, refreshing internal compliance notes, and preparing questions for public-private dialogue.