FIATA Freight Forwarder Member Directory Scraper

Extract every member of FIATA (the International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations) across all 153 country pages in its public member directory — association members and individual-member freight forwarders alike, each with a named contact, decoded e-mail address, phone, fax, website, and postal address.

What does this actor do?

• Enumerates all 153 country pages in the FIATA member directory and extracts every member firm listed on each one
• Covers both FIATA membership classes: Association Members (national freight-forwarder associations) and Individual Members (individual freight-forwarding companies)
• Returns the named, titled contact at each firm (e.g. "Director General", "President", "Manager") where the directory publishes one — a decision-maker, not a switchboard number
• Decodes e-mail addresses that the source page hides behind a placeholder, so the email field contains a real, usable address rather than a dead string
• Filter by member class to pull only association contacts or only individual-company contacts

What data does it extract?

Field	Description
company_name	Member firm or association name
member_class	Association Members or Individual Members
country	Country name
country_code	ISO-2 country code
postal_address	Postal address
city	City, where the address format allows it to be parsed out
postcode	Postal/ZIP code, where the address format allows it to be parsed out
email	Decoded contact e-mail address
phone	Telephone number
fax	Fax number, where published
website	Firm website URL, where published
contacts	Named responsible person(s) at the firm, formatted as "Name, Title" (multiple entries separated by ; )
directory_url	FIATA directory page this record was read from
scraped_at	ISO-8601 timestamp when the record was collected

Not every firm publishes every field — a fax number or a named contact is common but not universal, and the directory itself leaves some fields blank for some members.

How to use it

Leave the input at its defaults to pull a sample across the full directory. Raise maxItems for a larger run — the directory covers all 153 countries by default, so a high maxItems (or none at all, depending on your plan) returns the full membership list in one run.

Field	Type	Default	Description
maxItems	integer	10	Maximum number of member records to save
memberClasses	array	both	Restrict to Association Members, Individual Members, or both

Use cases

• Freight-forwarding prospect lists — Build a global contact list of freight forwarders, segmented by country, complete with a named decision-maker and a working e-mail address.
• Trade and logistics market mapping — Measure freight-forwarder association density and individual-member coverage by country for market-entry or competitive analysis.
• Supply-chain vendor sourcing — Identify FIATA-affiliated freight forwarders in a target country before issuing an RFP or vetting a logistics partner.
• Association outreach — Reach national freight-forwarder associations directly through their published leadership contact, rather than a generic info@ address.

FAQ

Does this include every FIATA member country? Yes, by default — the actor enumerates all 153 country pages the directory publishes. Use maxItems to cap the size of a single run, or memberClasses to narrow which member type you pull.

What does contacts look like when a firm has more than one responsible person? Multiple contacts are joined in one string, separated by ; — for example "Frank Huster, Director General; Axel Plass, President".

Why are some fields empty on some records? The FIATA directory itself doesn't require every firm to publish every field — fax numbers and named contacts are common but not guaranteed. The actor returns exactly what the directory publishes for each firm.

Results are available for export in JSON, CSV, and Excel formats from the Apify dataset tab.