ALACAT
José Arana and Felipe Carbonell create the Latin American Association of Air Cargo and Transportation Agencies (ALACAT). Given at one of its moving congresses in Panama, after analyzing the needs of the region's freight forwarders and based on the ideas that had been developed in the past
All the National Associations of the Americas and some Latin American Freight Forwarders were summoned. Congress organized by ABACA, June 12, 1982
Delegations from Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil and Colombia attended the congress, and delegates from the Federación Española de Transitarios Expedidores Internacionales y Asimilidaos (FETEIA) attended as guests.
Felipe Carbonell is assigned as First President. Board of Directors: APACIT (Peru), ABACA (Brazil), AAACA (Argentina), ACHIAC (Chile), ASCAIATA (Colombia), AUDACA (Uruguay)
The figure of adherent member is created in order to integrate and promote complementary services of companies linked to the logistics and foreign trade industry,
Federation of National Associations of Freight Forwarders and International Logistics Operators of Latin America and the Caribbean (FANLAC)