Course Highlights
  • Familiarity with the most common cargo transport modes: Air, Ocean, Truckload, Less Than Truckload, Barge and Rail.
  • Ability to select a transport mode appropriate to a specific situation.
  • Ability to exchange in a credible manner with customers, freight forwarders, and other parties in relation to transport modes.
Curriculum

7 Topics
Foreword
Read along presentation
Cargo and transportation
The main types of cargoes
Main parties
Transport modes
General transport knowledge application

6 Topics
Truck transport overview
Truckload (TL)
Less Than Truckload (LTL)
A short article on TL and LTL and some selection criteria
Out Of Gauge (OOG)
Road transport knowledge application

7 Topics
Ocean transport overview
The composition of the world fleet - see and learn about the vessel type
FCL - Full Container Load - transport
LCL - Less than Container Load - transport
Break bulk transport
Roll On Roll Off transport
Ocean transport knowledge application

5 Topics
Overview
Air freight transport
Air and Ocean chartering
Air transport knowledge application
Air quiz

3 Topics
Barge; inland waterways; transport
Rail transport
Barge and rail transport knowledge application

1 Topic
transport mode game

4 Topics
A transport example
Take our mode selection quiz
Closing
Final knowledge validation

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Transport logistics - Introduction to transport modes

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