Freight Investigation Bureau
Let’s learn about the Freight Investigation Bureau.
It was set up in 1965 with its registered office in Delhi, as a common and coordinating platform for the various export organizations including the Commodity Councils and Boards and the service institutions and organizations. The principal activities of the FIEO are:
1. Convening meetings, conferences, seminars and workshops to provide opportunity to all sectors of the exporting community and export promotion institutions in India to review, discuss and, wherever necessary, to formulate recommendations to the Government ad other authorities., on problems, prospects and potentials of India’s exports.
2. Arranging ‘round-table’ conferences of business interests in India with trade missions and other business teams on a visit to India.
3. Inviting leading business interests and Economic and Trade Missions from abroad especially for a tour of industrial and commercial centers in India.
4. Projecting Indian goods and services abroad through various media including films, exhibition, advertisements and publications.
5. Sponsoring outgoing multi-interest trade and economic missions, and special teams of government recognized export houses, consultancy firms, small scale industries and individual study-cum-sales teams.
6. Maintaining overseas liaison with International and UN Agencies like ITC, WTO, UNCTAD, UNIDO, IMF, World Bank, ASDB, ILO, etc.
7. Establishing rapport with overseas chambers of commerce, trade associations and government department concerned.
8. Sponsoring special projects related to the export promotion of India’s consultancy services.
9. Executing projects and responsibilities entrusted to it, from time to time, by the Government of India and serving as a forum for two-way transmission of views and information between government departments and the exporting community.
10. Promoting trade, economic and technical co-operation between India and other countries by way of international seminars and creating special infrastructure for follow-up.
