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The Brandon Fried Story |
Brandon Fried came to mind the other day watching Max Fried a classy southpaw pitcher, who as baseball 2025 moves into May, is a New York Yankee, undefeated at 5-0. That great start led New York Post sports writer Jon Heyman to pen this: “This guy is so clutch I have no doubt he aced the Haftara at his Bar Mitzvah!” cI think the same thing may have happened to Brandon Fried ,who today serves as Executive Director of Air Forwarders Association. He is pictured here with past Board Member and AfA supporter Jenni Frigger of EMO Trans. Mr. Fried (no relation to the pitcher) led the charge at Dallas for an air cargo gathering that delivered an absolutely outstanding 1,100 plus attendance gathering of forwarders at an Air Cargo event March 2-4. Brandon Fried, has headed the Airforwarders Association for the past 19 years, as we report from close up examination, he has not lost his fast ball whilst serving at AfA as a lightning rod for that organization. But Brandon also is a one-man Pied Piper of organized air cargo, available out on the hustings attending local air cargo events and trade shows all over America and elsewhere, pushing an agenda of awareness and involvement as he works to make the industry he loves even better. Brandon began his journey as a forwarder spending a quarter century as owner operator of Adcom Worldwide Forwarders in Washington DC. During that time Brandon also joined AfA as a member, eventually going full time with AfA and then moving into his current position as executive director in 2006. Now almost two decades later, Brandon Fried’s schedule, especially his dedication to support and advance air cargo organizations far and wide in cooperation and education, could make your head spin. In addition to overseeing AfA’s ongoing lobby effort in Washington, D.C. aimed at reaching government officials with supply chain issues, the AfA executive director serves on the TSA Aviation Security Advisory and the U.S. Department of Commerce Committee on Supply Chain Competitiveness. Mr. Fried also chairs IATA’s Cargo Network Services (CNS) Board, where he represents forwarder interests. He is also often involved with TIACA and FIATA. But Brandon’s pop-up appearances at local events are simply legendary and vital in most cases, drumming up support for cargo events at JFK Air Cargo Association, Los Angeles Air Cargo Association, at Dallas, Chicago and Orlando and a dozen other bigger and small venues. As example, this month of May 2025 Brandon kicks off the CNS Partnership Conference in Miami on the 12th saying, “IATA (airlines) need us, and the forwarders need them, so we should all be there together, especially now.” It seems wherever organized air cargo meets, Brandon answers the call and delivers a what’s hot and what’s not, tell it like it is boost of energy and excitement, every single time. Next AfA Air Cargo Conference set for Orlando, Florida February 15-17 2026. Get your year off to a flying start here. Geoffrey Arend |
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Publisher-Geoffrey Arend • Managing
Editor-Flossie Arend • Editor Emeritus-Richard Malkin |
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