The IMSC meeting report summarized progress since the previous Sri Lanka convention, including membership election practices across different organizations and branches. It presented draft membership guidelines for comment and discussion. Feedback focused on mapping qualifications and experience to membership grades; providing a pathway for progression in both career and membership; and upholding professional standards through rewards, recognition, and clearly defined penalties. The goal is to finalize simple yet relevant membership guidelines as a reference for all over the next 12 months.

1. IMSC Meeting Report
•Over 80 participants with almost all countries attending the International Convention
represented, including Australia, Bangladesh, Ghana, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Ireland,
Macao, Malaysia, Nigeria, North America, Pakistan, Qatar/UAE, Singapore, Sri Lanka,
Tanzania, Uganda, UK & Zambia
•Reported on progress since the Sri Lanka Convention, including the directions from the
Council of Trustees & IMC on the existing practices of membership election in different
Territorial Organisaions (TOs) and Branches
•Presented the draft Membership Guidelines for comments and discussion
•Supported IMSC to continue preparing the Membership Guidelines to be shared across
countries
•Three major areas of feedback

2. A. Mapping of both educational qualifications and professional
experience
Education qualifications
• Create a list of recognised qualifications/exempting qualifications
• Clearly map the four-tier structure of CILT education and training, i.e. International
Introductory Certificate, the International Certificate, International Diploma &
International Advanced Diploma, to membership grades
Professional experience
• Map relevant qualifications and experience, including those in military services, by
making reference to TOs with good practices
• Clarify whether experience is pre- or post-education qualifications
• Look into professional experience in other professions with jobs related to
transport/logistics, e.g. lawyers in maritime law and accountants in
transport/logistics

3. B. Membership Structure
•Provide a pathway to encourage active progression of members both in terms of
personal career and membership grades
•Provide guidelines on balance of members in different membership grades, avoid a top
heavy structure
•Follow rigorous assessments of CMILTs and FCILTs but be more flexible in handling of
MILTs and Organisation/Corporate memberships to build support and a broad
membership base
•Stipulate criteria for FCILTs be related to professional achievements and contributions
to the Institute for a substantial period of time/in a professional manner
•Financial contributions should not be rewarded with membership (e.g. FCILT) but be
recognized by other means

4. C. Upholding professional standards: Value/rewards vs penalties
Value/rewards
•Encourage active membership
•Publicize members’ achievements/awards across countries, e.g. CILT Newsletter
•Foster linkages with “support industries” (e.g. ICT & finance), trade unions, trade
organisation leaders
•Get national political recognition for CILT
Penalties
•Define professional misconduct
•Provide more guidelines about membership deregistration, e.g. due to non-
payment of membership fee & professional misconduct
• Grace period for non-payment of membership fee
• Type and level of penalty for a breach of code of professional conduct
• Collecting evidence of CPD and penalty for non-compliance of CPD
requirements
Next 12 months:
Membership Guidelines as a useful &
relevant reference for all, yet focused
& simple to use