Legally constituted companies that carry out the transitory activity and / or activity of express cargo operators, multimodal transport, warehousing and distribution, as well as logistics operators or any other operators related to the transportation organization, may be effective associates.
Adherents Members
Associates may be associated with natural or legal persons who, carrying out activities that do not fit into the effective partners, develop other activities or interests related to those of the Association.
Permanent information for
members in the form of circulars,
informative notes and APAT's magazine.
Legal counselling on issues
related to labour law,
fiscal law and transport law.
Intervention with the public administration
in the best interests of
the freight forwarding industry.
Collection all the information
on the activity - nationally and
internationally.
Organization support
on licensing procedures as well as
claims to official entities.
Industry Representation before
all institutions and entities,
both national and international.
A Bi-monthly magazine release,
widely publicized (nationally and internationally)
Market research initiatives and
gathering of statistical from this sector.
Organization and promotion of Conferences, Seminars, Congresses and other meetings of scientific and technical nature.
Organization and promotion of
vocational training courses,
inter-company and intra-company,
in order to improve the quality of
services provided by freight forwarders.
Provision of support facilities
for members' activity
Privileged access to the General Conditions for Services Provision, approved by Apat and applied by its members under the regulatory act for the forwarding activity as general contract terms.
