Knowledge Differentiates Your Firm from the Pack.
The Airforwarders Association is pleased and proud to bring a new training option to its members. Teaming up with GISTnet, a preeminent provider of online training for airfreight professionals, AfA is now offering a full spectrum of training courses, over 100 in all. These Include:
- "Jump Start" courses to rapidly develop entry-level trainees into full-charge forwarders and thus achieve competitive advantage
- All training you need for regulatory compliance: IAC security, HazMat, OSHA, FCPA, U.S. export requirements, C-TPAT, preventing workplace discrimination & harrassment
- Comprehensive international forwarding topics
- Key business skills, including customer service, supervision and sales
During training, students have full access to the GistNet operational support libraries and Country Guides. Best of all, everything is on-line, with rigorous testing to ensure understanding and retention, automated record-keeping and convenient self-paced lessons, available anytime-anywhere, with employer scheduling and tracking.
This is win-win training for your new hires, seasoned professionals seeking advancement and managers pursuing operational improvement and compliance-all at specially discounted rates for AFA members.
Training Programs & Helpful Resources
Government Provided Training
The U.S. Government provides essential import and export training compliance programs and information for those wishing to increase their knowledge in this important area. While the Airforwarders Association endeavors to maintain current information, members and visitors to these sites are encouraged to make sure that the information and regulations are up to date.
CBP Security Compliance Programs
Helpful Industry Links
- Airlines for America
- (Previously the Air Transport Association)
- Air Cargo News
- Air Cargo World Magazine
- American Trucking Associations (ATA)
- Air & Expedited Motor Carrier Association (AEMCA)
- Aviation Today
- Bureau of Transportation Statistics
- Canadian International Freight Forwarders Association (CIFFA)
- Cargo Network Services (CNS)
- Department of Commerce
- Department of Energy - Diesel Prices
- Express Delivery & Logistics Association
- Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
- Inbound Logistics Magazine
- International Air Transport Association
- Journal of Commerce
- Leonard's Guide
- National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association (NCBFAA)
- The International Air Cargo Association (TIACA)
- U.S. Customs & Border Protection (CBP)
- U.S. Department of Transportation
- Transportation Security Administration
- World Trade Magazine