Jack Daniel, TPF President

International Forwarders, Inc. – Charleston, South Carolina, USA - 843-769-7030

Dave Domek, Treasurer/Secretary

World Commerce Systems, Ltd. – Wood Dale, Illinois, USA – 630-350-0111

Chris Wood, Director

Wako Express – Kowloon, Hong Kong (SAR) – 852-277-99-8000

Thomas Manigk, Director

Kopf & Lübben – Bremen, Germany – 49-420-389-910

Pompeyo Eceiza, Director

Eceiza SA – Barcelona, Spain – 34-93-301-3090

Eddie Chen, Director

Mercury International Transport Co. Ltd. Taipei, Taiwan – 2-2581-0102

As the millenium approaches, the elected Directors look forward to a year of new challenges and new accomplishments. The Board will focus efforts on further expansion of membership and strengthening the links among members. In the first weeks of the term, the TPF Board has already introduced a new membership dues structure, membership incentive programs and launched the TPF Shipment Tracking system.

TPF Forwarding Network Launches Bill of Lading Program

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – February 1999 – The TPF Forwarding Network announces the launch of the TPF Bill of Lading Program. Effective March 15, 1999, TPF will make a central bill of lading available to qualified TPF member companies. After extensive research and development, TPF has produced a program to strengthen the strong global ties among TPF Members.

TPF’s key objective is to develop programs that globally link independent freight movement businesses while allowing such businesses to maintain their local market strength. The TPF Bill of Lading Program is another service designed to link independent member companies under a single organization. Use of the central TPF Bill of Lading will help to identify locally based TPF Member companies as part of an extensive global network. TPF Members that issue a TPF Bill of Lading illustrate to customers their network affiliation.

Member participation in the TPF Bill of Lading Program augments services offered by the individual member. For some members, this program enables them to offer NVOCC service that they did not previously offer. For those members managing significant NVOCC service, the TPF Bill of Lading raises the exposure of the TPF name, increases the value of TPF affiliation and opens new opportunities for joint business development among TPF members.

TPF Members work to strengthen their global link and are committed to providing high quality service throughout the world. Members of the TPF Forwarding Network utilize network resources to provide their customers the superior service of a regionally based firm combined with the global reach on an international network.

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