OMNI has scrapped its One Continent Rule at its annual conference in Portugal.

Scrapping the rule has freed the way for OMNI members to expand globally without prejudicing their OMNI membership.

Since its inception in 1986 OMNI has not allowed its members to operate a moving business in more than one continent. The rule was to preserve the agent-to-agent principle on which the organisation was based.  At its AGM today OMNI members decided that the global marketplace has changed sufficiently in the last 25 years to make the old rule counter-productive for the organisation and its members.

The change will allow Wridgways and Santa Fe, who merged recently, to continue in membership.  At the same meeting OMNI members also accepted Interdean as a full member despite Santa Fe’s intention to buy the company this summer.