AFFA was of the view that to overcome the long standing issues on full
The Meeting thanked Japan for its continued support and assistance in the
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ratification of AFAFGIT protocols and AFAFIST, ASEAN Member States may practice the containerisation, whereby the containers in standardised dimensions can be loaded and unloaded, stacked, transported and transferred from one semi-trailer trucks to another without being opened and its chassis are registered and numbered. AFFA therefore proposed that ASEAN could enter into a Multilateral Agreement on International Chassis Registration to facilitate prime-mover’s swap at border points and enable the container and its chassis to cross the border of the other ASEAN Member States.