This course introduces the student to air, ocean, truck and rail transportation and to the world geography over which goods move. Incoterms ®2010 outlines the transfer of cost and risk between the seller and buyer.
Certificates of completion are provided to students completing International Freight Forwarding Courses.
NOTE: The online version of the course does NOT include a printed copy of the textbook; students are given access to an e-textbook. Printed copies of the textbook can be purchased directly from CIFFA for an additional fee.
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IMPORTANT NOTE: This Online On Demand course begins immediately upon completing registration. If you are not prepared to start the course, do not complete the registration process.
Schedule:
CIFFA’s Online On Demand courses are a self-paced study program where students work through the course materials on their own, without a weekly schedeule. Students must complete all lessons, exercises and the final exam within 4 months of their registration date.
Students are given access to pre-recorded lectures by subject matter experts.
Topics:
- Understanding Freight Forwarding
- Transportation Geography
- Terms of Trade
- Land Transportation
- Air Freight
- Ocean Freight
- Define the duty of the CIFFA freight forwarder
- Define the CIFFA Standard Trading Conditions
- Define the role of the parties involved in an international trade movement
- Identify gateway seaports and air freight hubs
- Identify trade routes, intermodalism, etc.
- Describe types of rail equipment
- Calculate the chargeable truck freight weight
- Complete a truck waybill
- Calculate the chargeable air freight weight
- Calculate the charge to the customer
- Calculate profit and loss on a shipment
- Determine the exact number and type of air freight containers required to move a shipment
- Complete an Air Waybill
- Calculate the chargeable ocean freight weight
- Calculate the number and type of ocean containers needed to move a shipment
- Complete an ocean Bill of Lading
- Describe the importance of applying the correct Incoterm to a sales contract
- Identify the specific point of transfer of cost and risk between the seller and buyer under each of the 11 Incoterms® 2020 rules.
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