The Freight Summit, in its 3rd year, is the fastest growing Forwarder's Industry Event where successful forwarders build strong relationships from all over the world, keep close contact with the industry innovators and trends as a means to develop strategies for the future. The Freight Summit provides freight forwarders a neutral networking platform to interact with multiple alliances, hundreds of other independent international forwarders, logistics media and solutions providers in one place at the same time.

Pioneer in Open Networking

Why Hundreds of Forwarders Decide To Join
The largest convergence of freight forwarding networks will be taking place at The Freight Summit - the leading open and neutral networking platform. More than 10 freight networks are attending TFS 2010 with the goal of keeping their members updated with the latest know-how in the freight industry. TFS provides the environment for responsible and professionally-managed networks to interact with hundreds of forwarders resulting in unlimited networking and business opportunities.

Payment Security by Professionals

How do I protect myself from defaulting agents?
Forwarders may choose to be involved within networks that have central functions to secure the members transactions within the group. The Freight Summit, being open to both independent and network-affiliated forwarders, provides a number of security options with proper security features to ensure that partnerships developed in the summit can flourish. The combination of networks, independent security solution providers and insurance agents in one event is a powerful security blanket for forwarders visiting The Freight Summit.

Driven by Cutting-Edge Technology

Do you have what it takes to compete on a global level?
Forwarder Technology Providers are present at The Freight Summit to provide technology value-added services to forwarders directly. Our technology providers benefit the freight forwarding community as the independent forwarders will have a wide range of transportation technology options available which ultimately helps you focus on your core businesses. Market competitiveness drives forwarders to increase their focus on IT strategies and solutions to improve operational efficiencies and reduce costs. TFS aims to support this growing need of the forwarders by collaborating with technology providers.

Social Networking: Forwarders Meet Online

How often do you meet forwarders that are of no interest to you?
Social Media has quickly emerged as one of the most effective and popular ways to generate business and the results are immediate. The Freight Summit recognizes that social networking is absolutely essential to your business for purposes of marketing and PR. Learn how to make full use of social media sites to generate greater interest about your company months before the event while keeping in touch with your TFS business partners and friends.