ASIA AND CHINA: Hong Kong, Shanghai
BELGIUM: Antwerp, Zeebrugge
BRASIL: Salvador
DENMARK: Aarhus
ESTONIA: Tallin
FRANCE: Dunkerque, Fos Sur Mer
GERMANY: Hamburg, Bremen
INDIA: Nhava Sheva
LITHUANIA: Klaipeda
RUSSIA: Sant Petersburg, Moscow, Novorossiysk, Ekaterinburg, Vladivostok, Vostochniy
THE NETHERLAND: Rotterdam
UK: London
UKRAINE: Odessa

IFA - International Forwarding - was founded in 1982 as a company operating in the field of international shipping, specialized in maritime and land transport as a natural continuation of an activity started after World War II.

A few years after its start IFA played an important role in the management of traffic to Russia, CIS, North and West Africa. In 2006, the company saw the entry of a third generation, a strong sign of continuity and innovation in tradition.

Over the years, IFA has grown in size both internally and externally enabling it to increase:

• destinations served;
• contracts / TEU transported;
• skills and knowledge of goods carried and the origins and destinations of the same
• financial size, solidity and credibility with its partner suppliers in order to offer wider availability to the Clients.

IFA - International forwarding - is positioned as a bridgehead for new business developments detecting growth trends relating to certain areas of the world and the real, potential or perceived extent of absorption of products or goods.

IFA has been operating in this way for some time increasing its authority which it makes available to its Clients.

IFA maintains an open line of communication with the Client / Prospect exchanging news and useful insights about transport, business lines, insurance obligations, credit, customs and bureaucracy.

For those clients who wish to build an ongoing relationship, frequent and consolidated, IFA also offers a budget amount of premium discount (dei budget quantità a premio sconto) allowing IFA to improve, where possible, its performance in the face of growing volumes enabling it to become a primary reference partner in the management of shipments for every current and new client.

For those clients who are able to build and sustain an ongoing relationship with frequent and consolidated traffic IFA offers the opportunity to develop favourable conditions of discount allowing IFA to improve, where possible, its performance in the face of growing volumes enabling it to become a primary reference partner in the management of shipments for every current and new client.

IFA - International Forwarding - undertakes to constantly improve its skills in order to handle of all types of goods.

IFA is able to interface with the various functional areas (Management, Production, Logistics and Commercial Services) of its Clients or those who will become Clients (Prospects), so as to understand their needs in order to facilitate the sale and therefore, its ultimate delivery to the Client.

This method, expressed and shared throughout the company, makes IFA's business growth possible.

IFA may suggest alternative solutions ensuring exclusivity and non-competition bringing efficiencies in the handling of deliveries in relation to:

• Client sector;
• Sectors of Prospects and their Clients;
• Viable options with evidence of costs, advantages and sort to medium term benefits;
• Opportunities to manage the transportation of products assisting the Client / Prospect Logistics Department of the on the basis of their thirty years experience going so far as to suggest, for example, the opening of new trade routes.

Goods + Forwarding Management!

Depending on the type of load to be transported, IFA works to understand the characteristics and requirements of Clients in order to offer the best solutions for delivery anywhere in the world and in the timeliest fashion.

IFA supports and co-manages daily the worldwide shipment of the Client goods optimizing routes, resources and costs.

Finally, IFA - International Forwarding - pursues a strategy of constant growth through its body of knowledge, ever-changing and dynamic, bringing benefits and improvements in terms of effectiveness and efficiency for its Clients and for their Clients' customers.

Overland

• Complete or partial truck loads to Russia and CIS.

By train to Russia and CIS

• in 20'/40' containers (also special equipment such as Open Top or Tank Containers) for lease or sale;
• conventional freight;
• transfer from EU gauge freight wagons to CIS gauge;
• commercial document check-in, customs and railway goods RID, oversize and overweight;
• escort services, cargo insurance appraisals and inspections;
• freight tracking along the rail network of CIS countries.

• full truck and/or partial truck to Europe and CIS

• shuttle trains from Italian rail terminals to ports of North Europe and v.v.

• all types of ro-ro cargo
• general cargo (including heavy and oversized)

By sea

To Russia, CIS, the Middle East, the Indian sub-continent, Asia, Oceania, the United States, Canada, Central America, the Carribean, South America.

• export in containers of any type;
• inland transport management of containers to and from the port by road or interzonal;
• special transport / oversized / overweight on special equipment (Open Top and Flat Rack);
• transportation of dangerous goods;
• transport of refrigerated and/or frozen goods;
• goods inspection services;
• insurance;
• import - export customs operations.

RO – RO Shipping

• all types of RO – RO cargo;
• oversized and overweight.

Via Intermodal

• from Italian railway terminals to Northern European ports and vice versa