What you'll learn

• The global economic developments, origins and principles of containerisation, evolution of scheduled services and the emergence of container ports around the world.
• The types and characteristics of container ships that are deployed in the carriage of international maritime transport including their dimensions
• The types of container that are used in the carriage of a variety of cargo on board container vessels in international maritime transport.
• The role of container ship operations in international logistics including the evolution of ports, inland container distribution centres and ship service patterns to manage seaborne transport in the global supply chain.
• The various costs and revenue components of managing and operating scheduled container liner shipping services on a global scale.
• The business operations of container shipping companies, explaining how they manage ships through strategies such as alliances and consortia.