FIATA, the International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations today represents an industry covering approximately 40,000 forwarding and logistics firms, employing some 10 million FTE’s in 160 countries. FIATA maintains its full support to the WTO as this historic Agreement is expected to deliver greater facilitation to trade in times when better trade could lift more and more countries out of poverty, increase the welfare of the more developed nations and contribute to better health and human conditions all over the world, coming to assist the process of establishing the new sustainable development goals of the post-2015 agenda.