DURATION

• 12-16 weeks (an extension could be granted under special circumstances)

Transportation Skills are very important for every logistician. Commodities must be brought to a production company “just-in-time”, a retailer needs his merchandise goods and every business wants to deliver to their customers. Therefore a logistician needs essential knowledge about transport modalities, packaging modalities, transport laws all over the world or in special regions such as Africa and Europe.

Our courses focus on real-life examples, exercises and teamwork, the exchange of good practises and lessons learned and the sharing of experiences and insight. Applicants can develop an individual project during this course. You can choose among the subjects taught in a course relevant to your own work and career. Enrolled applicants will be provided with the complete course syllabus.

TARGET GROUP

Transportation managers, Clearing & forwarding agents

ADMINISTRATIVE FEE

This course is free of tuition fees. The administrative fee charge is $ 1000 (Based on academic merits, a partial scholarship or/and installment payment of the fee indicated can be granted to a limited number of applicants. Please contact us at: email: scholarships@gai-edu.eu & j.godfrey@gai-edu.eu on details.)

OPERATING GUARANTEE

Applicants will be provided with study materials on the specifics Indicated in the course description section. After proper Study and review of all materials arrangements will be concluded by academic advisor for applicants to sit for their final exams. Details of exams will be handled by our admins.

START / REGISTRATION

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COURSE DETAILS

Summarized description of course topics & additional literature

Applicants will learn about

• General introduction, product and transport characteristics
• Transport characteristics
• Transport modalities in markets / partial markets
• Means of transportation, palettes and packaging
• Political requirements, customs and legal aspects

Specific Topics

• The role of transport in the logistic
• Flow of goods
• Transport costs
• Transport insurance
• Route planning and use of IT in planning systems, traffic geography
• Transport in the relation to distribution, logistics and supply-chain management

Alternative Topics

• Transport as part of the logistic services
• Savings of transport costs
• Transport laws in the world
• Customs declaration

Further Reading

• Academy of Management Executive
• Academy of Management Review
• Harvard Business Review
• Harvard Business School

QUALIFICATIONS

The Modules which are aligned up with innovative materials including the Practical Training Attachment (PTA) to each course which is conducted, supervised and completed by our local partner institutes.  This practical methodology of simultaneous Dual System (Practice and theory) is being practiced by F+U International University of Cooperate Education our partner institute here in Heidelberg, Darmstadt and Berlin, Germany. These provisions are being made possible through the efforts of the European Commission Funding Programmes (Capacity Building in the field of Higher Education for emerging economies / EDULINK I & II, ACP Science and Technology, Erasmus Mundus etc.  As a result of the years of focused academic and training co-operation between the German Academic Institute, and other EU-Higher Education, Vocational & Continuing Educational Training Institutes, qualified applicants will be awarded a German Academic Institute Professional Certificate (GAIPC) in cooperation with a participating local partner institute.