International Transport - Master / Doctorate

The objective of the module “International Transport and Logistics” is to provide all the knowledge, techniques and tools necessary to manage all the issues related to the international freight transport:

1. Different types of transport (air, rail, road, maritime, multimodal)
2. Role of the main organisations related to International Transport (ICAO, IRU, OTIF, UNCTAD, IMO, FIATA, IATA...)
3. Main conventions of the international cargo transport (CIM, CMR, Rotterdam, Hamburg, COTIF)
4. International transport documents (bill of lading, AWB...)
5. Containerisation
6. Stowage of goods
7. Insurance and freight of the International Transport
8. Calculation of the logistics costs of export or import operations

In the PDFs you can download the index, structure and objectives of each module

Main subjects of the module on international transport:

Introduction to the International Transport and Logistics

1. Containers and International Transportation
   1. Convention Relating to Temporary Admission (Istanbul Convention)
2. Customs Convention on Containers (CCC, UN)
3. International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations (FIATA)
   1. Negotiable Combined Transport Bill of Lading (FIATA FBL)
   2. Non-negotiable FIATA Multimodal Transport Waybill (FIATA FWB)
   3. Warehouse Receipt (FIATA FWR)
   4. Forwarders Certificate of Receipt (FIATA FCR)
   5. Forwarders Certificate of Transport (FIATA FCT)
   6. Electronic FIATA Bill of Lading (eFBL Bill of Lading)

Maritime transport

1. International Bureau of Containers and Intermodal Transport (BIC)
2. International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO, Chicago Convention)
3. International Maritime Organisation (IMO)
4. Rotterdam Rules
5. Convention on the Carriage of Goods by Sea (Hamburg Rules, UN)
6. International Chamber of Shipping (ICS)
7. Analysis of the International Maritime Trade

Road transport

1. International Road Transport Union (IRU)
2. TIR Convention
3. CMR Convention
4. International Guidelines on Safe Load Securing for Road Transport
5. Silk Road

International air transport

1. International Air Transport Association (IATA)
2. International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO)

Rail transport

1. Uniform Rules concerning the Contract of International Carriage of Goods by Rail (CIM, CIT)
2. International Union of Railways
3. Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail (OTIF). Convention concerning International Carriage by Rail (COTIF)
4. Organisation for Cooperation between Railways

Multimodal transport

1. Road-Rail Combined Transport