International Operations in Transport and Forwarding

Teaching results

Students will possess following abilities:
- on the underlying economic theories and methods, as well as the interrelationships that form the basis of global business operations in freight forwarding and logistics,
- on international transport and forwarding chains in selected territories,
- in the field of management of international transport, forwarding and logistic operations, as well as management of their risks – export, re-export, import and re-import,
- on pricing in global freight forwarding chains, which reflects export, re-export, import, re-import management activities and is based on a managerial perspective,
- concerning the structure of the international freight market, entities and contractual relations (named/unnamed contracts, outsourcing and incentive contracts), which regulate their functioning,
- concerning positive and negative externalities in the international transport, forwarding and logistic markets.
Students will obtain following skills:
- to work actively with knowledge and information in the field of international transport, shipping and freight forwarding chains,
- to creatively design solutions for the functioning and management of international markets for logistics service providers in the sense of the triangle of transport, freight forwarding and logistics operators (outsourcing/ insourcing in terms of increasing competitiveness and creating added value),
- to work with advanced technologies in highly competitive international freight forwarding (5PL, 6PL/ AI),
- to design solutions for creating simple business models in freight forwarding,
- concerning trade in smart connected products, which form the basis of innovation in international transport, freight forwarding and logistics.
Students will gain following competences:
- to think innovatively and creatively, to manage processes and teamwork in the field of international transport and freight forwarding chains,
- to negotiate the conditions of transport, freight forwarding, logistics, warehousing and management of the freight forwarding chain, conclude outsourced logistics contracts, critically assess, manage and evaluate their performance and success,
- to communicate and present expert opinions in the field of contractual relations, prices of global logistics transactions, liability, transaction mechanism, delivery and financing axis, transfer of ownership of goods between EXW and DDP clauses according to INCOTERMS 2020.