INTRODUCTION
This course covers areas in logistics, shipping and supply chain management. It contains wide-ranging overview of the chartering field, and the mechanisms driving the market. Participants in this course will develop information on liner trade and maritime container logistics covers commercial, technical and operational aspects.
PROGRAMME OBJECTIVES
- Creating solid commercial and legal grounding in the shipping business
- Understanding the international shipping process
- Tracing the journey of products from factory through to arrival at the warehouse
- Understanding the issues that port operation officers face
- Knowing what to do when things get wrong
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
- Shipping lines personnel
- Port operations officers
- Supply chain personnel
- Those who needs to improve his knowledge in supplying global multi-modal logistics services
PROGRAM OUTLINE
- Introduction to container freight
- The supply chain
- Sale contracts
- Letters of credit
- Global trade and international maritime trade
- Global trade and international trade
- How container freight works
- Different types of freight
- Developing liner service networks in container shipping
- Background on container shipping
- Configuration and design of liner shipping services
- Shipping routes, network patterns and port centrality
- Voyage and time chartering
- Charters
- Bills of lading
- Laytime /demurrage
- Cargo claims
- Cargo damage
- Letters of indemnity
- Ship’s arrest
- Insurance policy
- Maritime security from a contractual/chartering point of view
- The law of agency
- Cargo agents
- Container shipping costs
- Revenue and freight rates
- Container shipping business regulations and documentation
- Multimodal transport
- Intermodal freight transport and logistics
- Characteristics of intermodal transport
- Containerization of intermodal transport
- Advantages of intermodal transport
- Containerization and intermodal transport
- Development of intermodal transport
- Combined transport operators and their services
- Towards innovative intermodal transport
