UTAR and SFFLA renews MoU

Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) and the Selangor Freight Forwarders and Logistics Association (SFFLA) renewed their memorandum of understanding (MoU) at Wisma SFFLA on 27 February 2013.

The original MoU was signed on 20 August 2009 also at Wisma SFFLA.  The renewal was signed by UTAR President Ir Prof Academician Dato' Dr Chuah Hean Teik and his counterpart SFFLA President Alvin Chua Seng Wah, who is also Federation of Malaysia Freight Forwarders (FMFF) president. 

FMFF, registered in 1987, is a federation of state-level associations including SFFLA.  FMFF was also signing another MoU with three other educational institutions at the ceremony.

The MoU was signed to strengthen the ties between UTAR and SFFLA to collaborate in the areas of offering joint educational and training programmes in freight forwarding and logistics, to facilitate academic and training development exchanges, and other academia-industry collaborative activities such as SFFLA members offering internship and job placements to UTAR students through career talks and fairs in UTAR.  After the signing of the MoU, the partners had been jointly offering courses in Freight Forwarding in Multimodal Transport at UTAR Centre for Extension Education.

"With the renewal of the MoU today, I am certain that the partnership between UTAR and SFFLA will continue with a stronger footing," said Prof Chuah, adding that he was certain that there would be many more collaborative activities between the partners.

"I wish to convey my sincere appreciation to all the tertiary institutions that have shared our vision and have come forward to jointly work with us to pursue and achieve our shared objectives; which primary objective should be, to benefit the logistics industry," said Chua, thanking the MoU partners.

Present as guest-of-honour at the ceremony was Tuan Haji Abi Sofian Bin Abdul Hamid, CEO of North Port (Malaysia) Berhad.

Exchanging MoU documents (from left): Chua, Abi Sofian, SFFLA Vice-President Cheok Tuan Sun and Prof Chuah

Representatives from the signing parties and guests

Prof Chuah presenting a plaque to Chua after the MoU signing