Course contents

Subject

Items

Port

Management

• General: changing shipping and changing ships;
• Port Handling and Storage: terminal operations, developments in containerization, handling equipment and systems;
• Port Positioning: marketing aspects, global port competition; competitive advantage factors; main port criteria; port planning;
• Port & Shipping Economics, Shipping Forecast;
• Port Reform: privatisation, public - private partnership;
• Introducing Policy of Each Country.

Shipping

Management

• Changing world sea borne trade;
• Shipping companies and stevedores;
• Shipping terms;
• Supply, demand and shipping market cycles;
• Liner shipping: organisation and principals of the liner conference system;
• Chartering: common terminology, tanker- and time chartering;
• Conventions and legislation: IMO, STCW, Marpol, ISPS;
• Frauds and measures to prevent;
• Liabilities and insurance: B/L, Hague/Visby and Hamburg rules; P&I Club.

Multi Modal

Transport

& Logistics

• Transport Chain Players: changing roles and interrelations of chain partners, such as Ships Agents, Forwarders, Shippers, Warehousers, Customs, etc.;
• Developments in transport modalities: Sea, Rail, Air, Inland shipping, Road, Conveyor, Pipeline;
• Multi modal, Intermodal and Combined Transport: transportation networks & hinterland connections; various multimodal concepts, door-to-door solutions.

Supply Chain

Management

• Inventory Management: inventory policy, warehouse location issues;
• Warehouse management: Public and private warehousing;
• Advanced Information Management, E-commerce;
• SCM Development and Concepts: Chain Characteristics, Service and Costs Aspects, SCM Development, SCM Concepts;
• International Supply Chain Management: Globalisation;
• Outsourcing: policy, contract logistics, logistic services in practice;
• Reverse logistics.