• IELA PARTNERING EVENT
    San Francisco, June 24th - 26th 2018
  • BRIDGING THE WORLD
    1 City | 2 Events | 9 Hosts
  • DRIVING GROWTH

EVENT RESULTS 2018

BRIDGING THE WORLD - DRIVING GROWTH - BOOSTING ACTION

Thank you for making the 33rd IELA Congress & 7th IELA Partnering Event a great success!

With a new concept and format, the IELA FORUM 2018 encouraged participants to #THINK, #BRAINStorm and #STREAM, using an interactive, solution-based approach to help them understand the challenges and benefits of digital technologies.

The objective of the Forum’s new programming was to promote a strong level of participation, introduce tools for digital transformation and help participants to gain better understanding how transformation can induce member’s benefits. This naturally provided momentum for five new task forces aimed at developing new software and technologies that will, hopefully, affect business and impact the whole industry. 


The 2018 results:

  • 241 delegates representing 132 companies from 45 countries joined the 33rd IELA Congress
  • 355 delegates representing 196 companies from 51 countries attended the 7th Partnering Event
  • 2.839 meetings took place during the Congress and PE networking sessions


IELA Board of Management election results
The formal 2018 General Assembly opened proceedings with a brief report of IELA´s Chairwoman Mariane Ewbank as well as the Treasurer´s Report by Christoph Rauch. This was followed by the re-election of five Board Members: Vicki Bedi (PSBedi Group, India), Feyzan Erel (Gruptrans, Turkey), Guido Fornelli (Expotrans SpA, Italy), James NG (Transit Air Cargo Singapore Pte Ltd, Singapore) and Christoph Rauch (BTG Messe-Spedition GmbH, Germany). Jeff Broom (Europa Showfreight, UK) was elected into the Board of Management.


AWARDING QUALITY

The IELA STANDARDS OF PERFORMANCE SURVEY is the unique tool that benchmarks our members´ performance. The winner of the respective category – Domestic Agent or Export Agent – receives the Best Agent Award at the annual IELA Congress, the highest quality recognition within the Industry.

The Top 3 Performers were presented during the Gala Dinner at California Academy of Science on June 23rd 2018:

TOP 3 BEST DOMESTIC AGENTS 2017:

  • 1st Place: JIM Project & Expo Logistics (M) Sdn. Bhd., Malaysia
  • 2nd Place: Eurotran Expo Service Co.,, Taiwan
  • 3rd Place: Schenker Deutschland AG - Stuttgart, Germany


TOP 3 BEST EXPORT AGENT 2017:

  • 1st Place: Airways Freight Corporation, USA
  • 2nd Place: BTG Suisse Ltd., Switzerland
  • 3rd Place: GBH Exhibition Forwarding Ltd., UK


IELA congratulates all awarded members!

IELA is pleased to be growing strong in numbers and quality, continuing to bring the world’s major players, new comers and niche solutions providers of the Exhibition and Event logistics industry together. We want to thank you for having joined us in beautiful San Francisco! We hope you had a great time, meeting friends and developing new business.

 

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