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MEMBERSHIP
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Since the last report there have been some changes in our working group. Our former Chairperson Ghazali Bin Saad has left this position due to structural changes in the company. As most of you know, DSV acquired Agility and they are only keeping a few countries as members. Singapore, where Ghazali is active, is not one of the remaining IELA members within DSV. Ghazali put in great work and effort in IELA over the years and he has been a great and ambitious leader for our working group. He will be missed by IELA and our group. Thank you for the good job, Ghazali! For the moment I have taken over as
the Chairperson, but only temporarily until the GA 2022. As new Vice Chair, we are happy to announce that Marzena Zawadzka-Szulc from Universal Express, Poland has accepted this role. New for the Working groups is the election of two Vice Chairs in order to be able to develop different tasks and strategies. This work will continue after the GA 2022 so more information will be given later. During the Pandemic most IELA members stayed strong and are still in business. This is very good news and shows that we keep the fighting spirit also in hard times.
There are some members who decided to cancel their membership but at the same time we are welcoming new members to our family. Naturally the work in vetting and checking applications from new members has been on hold during the pandemic. The GA 2022 in Bruges will be a good opportunity to restart this work in the Membership Working Group. I am sure there will be many good ideas brought forward. Hope to see many of you in real life in June. Stay strong and positive! t Best regards, Lena Ericson, Temporary Chairperson On-Site Exhibitions AB, Sweden lena@onsitegroup.se
STANDARDS & CUSTOMS
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Hi everyone, During our meetings, we carried out quick real-time surveys to allow us to get Insights as a “thermometer” to measure general opinion on Standards (as you can see below)
Everybody at the meeting felt that all members accept or believe in our Standards, but not all follow them. The majority believes them to be necessary in order to make updates and create more technological methods to support members 90
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We discussed very interesting points of view regarding the “New Now”: how pricing is increasing on the market, the fact that some workers/providers have left the sector and what to do if we have too many large shows at the same time. We worked on creating the next statements referring to the pandemic and war situation, to warning about extra charges but not giving an exact amount (this is not confirmed in detail until it happens): “We preserve the right to change quotations according to actual pandemic situation or war, such as
freight charge changes, demurrage at ports, storage, expired regularisations, change of Status for imports or extra manoeuvers due the cancellation or postponement of show dates”. We also worked on other ideas like; “NFT for the ATA Carnet”, “A unified tariff”, “How to involve more members as volunteers”, “COVID 19 Guidelines”, etc. t CHAIRPERSON
Rene Carvajal New Age Of International Business S.A. de C.V., Mexico rene.carvajal@naibgroup.com.mx VICE-CHAIRPERSON
Ryu Ishida Ishikawa-Gumi, Ltd., Japan r_ishida@ishikawa-gumi.co.jp
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