The primary AISA Mission is to market the benefits of shippers' associations to the international and domestic shipping community and to establish programs and services that will help shippers' associations have a better and stronger profit center. To that end AISA will work to maintain the independence and unregulated environment of the shippers' association industry in the international and domestic shipping community. AISA will work with all governmental agencies such as Customs and Border Protection, Federal Maritime Commission, the State Department, Transportation Security Administration, and Homeland Security to ensure that shippers' association interests are protected on issues such as cargo liability, security, and the separate and unique legal identity and status of shippers' associations in the transportation industry. We will make your voice heard at Government and non-government meetings to assure that shippers' sssociations are not blind sided on issues that are important to our members such as collective actions of ocean carriers on service contracts and ocean carrier antitrust immunity. AISA will establish communication vehicles that will allow members to receive timely information pertinent to the operations of their shippers' associations. We are dedicated to providing educational conferences each year which will enhance the ability of shippers' associations to improve the effeciency of operations.  

A continuing benefit  of membership in the American Institute for Shippers' Associations, Inc., is the opportunity to receive and read AISA NEWS, the newsletter for the shippers' association industry. AISA NEWS provides a weekly look at key developments affecting shippers' associations in Washington DC, overseas, and in the courts. To learn more about AISA NEWS and the benefits of membership in AISA, please contact Bill Clark, President, at (202) 628-0933 or by e-mail at info@shippers.org.