Containerization and Allied Business

OBJECTIVES:

• To provide an overview of the various elements of containerization and allied businesses.
• To realize the potential of containerization and allied businesses.

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UNIT I - BASIC CONCEPT OF CONTAINERIZATION

Introduction to Liner Shipping industry – Unitization concept and methods – Malcolm Mclean and the birth of containerization – Generations of container ships and their specification – Container types, their specifications and cargoes carried in them.

UNIT II - FREIGHTING AND SIZE OF CONTAINER

Container shipping business – FCL and LCL sea freight products – Freighting of FCL and LCL cargo – Slot utilization strategies – Estimation of optimum container fleet size – Multiport LCL consolidation

UNIT III - CHARACTERISTICS AND PHYSICAL OPERATIONS

Containerisation: Concept, Classification, Benefits and Constraints, Container terminal business- World’s leading container terminals and location characteristics – container terminal infrastructure – container terminal productivity and profitability-Inland container Depots(ICD)Roles and functions – Container Freight Stations(CFS),Clearance at ICD, CONCOD,ICD’s under CONCOD, Charting: Kinds of Charter, Charter Party and Arbitration.

UNIT IV - CONTAINER TYPES AND BUSINESS

Container manufacturing trends – Container leasing business – Types of container leasing and their terms – maintenance and repair of containers – tracking of container movements – Container interchange.

UNIT V MULTIMODAL TRANSPORT

Alternate uses of containers -marketing of used containers -carriage of shipper own containers – multimodal transport options for containers -Insurance for containers -strategies for managing container imbalance.