FIATA Digitalisation Forum and 2025 Congress Programme Signal Digital Freight Priorities

Summary

FIATA communications in 2025 connected digitalisation discussions with the build-up to the Hanoi World Congress, underlining the importance of common digital freight practices.

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 identifies the congress as a gathering point for global freight forwarding and logistics leaders, with digitalisation among the programme themes relevant to operators and associations.

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

For ASEAN forwarders, digital freight progress depends on practical adoption: document workflows, interoperable data, cyber hygiene, staff training, and customer-facing service changes.

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.