Teaching Syllabus of The Practice of International Freight
Forwarding
Cour Title:The Practice of International Freight Forwarding
Suitable Specialty:International Trade of Higher Vocational Colleges
Credit Hour:72hours
Credit:4credits
1.Preface
1.1Cour Description
The Practice of International Freight Forwarding is one of the specialized expanding cours of International Trade in higher vocational colleges.This cour aims to cultivate international freight forwarder with a strong professional competence,good professional quality and practical operating ability.Through this cour,students will be able to handle a variety of routine tasks such as accepting o
rders,booking space,allocating transportation,transshipment,consolidation etc.This cour is not only bad on The Operation of Export Business and International Marketing but also the basis for further studying Container Transport Management and Supply Chain Management cour,etc.
1.2Cour Design
The cour is guided by the job position standard of international freight forwarder and takes international freight forwarding process as a main line,according to the vocational students'cognitive characteristics,prent teaching content by the method of business process guiding teaching process,make students to construct knowledge system by completing the process of specific project tasks in order to train vocational skills and develop vocational ability.
This cour includes eight working projects including Cognition of International Freight Forwarding Business,International Freight Forwarding Service and Marketing,International Ocean Cargo Forwarding Practice,International Air Cargo Forwarding Practice,International Overland Cargo Forwarding Practice,International Multimodal Transportation Practice,Practice
for other business agency,Risk Prevention and Accident Handling in International Freight Forwarding Business.The work projects are designed by the clues of basic qualities,basic skills, basic norms,b
asic rvices,basic operations of international freight forwarder position.The cour contents give prominence to train the professional competence of the students.The lection of professional theory not only focus on the needs of completing work tasks,but also gives full consideration to the needs of professional theory learning for higher vocational education and the integration of knowledge,skills and attitudes requirements of relevant professional qualification.
2.Cour Objectives
Through this cour,students can systematically study the theory and practical operation, master a variety of practical skills and scientific international freight management methods in the international freight forwarding process,so as to provide international freight rvices to ensure safe and reasonable transport of goods,improve freight quality and economic efficiency,respond to the increasingly fierce competition in the international freight market.At the same time,with the same training practice as professional positions requirements,teach students to have career awareness and literacy,to form the ability of a preliminary work,and have lf-learning,solidarity collaboration capabilities,good communication and prentation skills,creative thinking and analysis ability to solve problems,and effectively improve their professional skills and overall quality.
Professional Competency Objectives:
●Be able to login professional website,independently inquire the information of the current price range,supply and demand of all kinds of rvices
●Be able to gain the customer information through effective access and consult with business transactions
●Be able to develop customer orders according to the commission of the consignor and consignee
●Properly accept the customers’inquiries such as the owner and the carrier and handle their needs
●Be able to correctly make the main documents in the international freight forwarding business
●Be able to handle related business as a commission agent such as chartering,booking space,insurance,inspection,customs declaration
●Be able to coordinate with business partners in handling cargo damage and transportation incidents
3．Teaching Contents and Requirements
No.Content Task Skill Requirement Knowledge Requirement Credit Hours
1Cognition of
International
Freight
Forwarding
Business
Task1:
Introduction to
International
Freight
Forwarding
Business
Task2:Job
Position
Task3:Business
Scope and Work
Flow
•Understand rationalization
of international freight
transportation
•Master business contents
and work flow in
international freight
forwarding enterpri
•Know well and obey the
position responsibility and
behavior standard
•Know the main international
freight forwarding modes
•Master the concept,liability
and rights of international
freight forwarder
•Know well the business scope
of international freight
forwarding enterpri
•Be familiar with the rvice
target of international
freight forwarder
6
2International
Freight
Forwarding
Service and
Marketing
Task1:
International
Freight
Forwarding
Service
Task2:
International
Freight
Forwarding
Marketing
•Analyze accurately
international freight
forwarding market and
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product
•Formulate price properly
and control cost
effectively
•Proficiency in using
distribution and
祭服promotion strategy for
international freight
forwarding marketing
•Know the definition of
International Freight
Forwarding rvice延安小吃
•Know International Freight
Forwarding Management
and Standardization
•Master the distribution and
promotion strategy for
international freight
forwarding market
8
3International
Ocean Cargo
Forwarding
Practice
Task1:
Container cargo
transportation
Task2:
苦瓜蛋汤Conference line
Task
3:Chartering
business
•Carry on container
transportation business of
Import and export products
•Carry on freight cargo liner
transportation of import and
export products
•Carry on freight chartering
transport
•Make related shipping
documents correctly
•Accurately calculate the
various types of ocean
•Learn more about the basics
of international maritime
cargo transportation
•Familiar with the import and
icreo
export freight forwarding
business process including
container liner shipping,
cargo liner shipping and
chartering cargo
transportation
•Master a variety of
international maritime
16
freight and fees shipping documents making
•Master all kinds of
international maritime
transportation charges
calculation
4International Air
Cargo
Forwarding
Practice
Task1:Work
flow of
International air
cargo
transportation
Task2:Making
international air
cargo
documents
Task3:Calculate
International Air
Cargo Freight
•Carry on import and export
forwarding business of
international air cargo
•Make air cargo forwarding
documents correctly
•Accurately calculate the
various types of air cargo
freight and fees
•Masterly handle import
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and export forwarding
business of international
air express
•Learn the basics of
international maritime cargo
transportation
•Be familiar with work flow of
international air cargo
forwarding business
•Master international air
cargo transportation
document making
•Master charges calculation of
international air cargo
transportation
10
5
International
Overland Cargo
Forwarding
Practice
Task1:Handling
the
international
railway freight
forwarding
business
Task2:Handling
the
international
road freight
forwarding
business
•Handle the international
railway freight forwarding
business
•Handle the international
road freight forwarding
business
•Understand the basics of
international rail and road
freight forwarding
•Grasp the international rail
freight business process
and operations
•Master the international road
transportation
6
6
International
Multimodal
Transportation
Practice
Task1：Deal
with
International
Multimodal
Transportation
Business
Task2:Make
International
Multimodal
Transportation
Documents
Task3:
Calculate
International
Multimodal
•Handle International
Multimodal Transportation
Business operation
•Make and issue
International Multimodal
Transportation documents
•Calculate the charges of
International Multimodal
Transportation
发烧几天能好
•Know the concepts and
differences of International
Multimodal Transportation,
land bridge transportation and
OCP transportation.
•Know the operation process
of International Multimodal
Transportation
•Master the making of
International Multimodal
Transportation document
•Master the calculation of
International Multimodal
Transportation charges
8
Transportation charges
7
Practice for
Other business
agency
Task1:
Act inspection
电子商务简介
and customs
declaration
Task2:
International
cargo
warehousing
and
conrvation
Task3:Cover
international
cargo insurance
•Proficiency for inspection
and customs declaration
agents business
•The proper conduct of
warehou management
and product packaging,
storage and conrvation
•Operate international
cargo insurance business
•Be familiar with the basics of
inspection and customs
clearance,warehousing
maintenance,cargo
insurance of import and
export goods
•Grasp inspection and
customs declaration agency
business operations
•Master the international
cargo warehousing
process
•Know precautions of
packaging,storage and
conrvation
•Grasp the practical operation
of international freight
insurance
12
8
Risk Prevention
and Accident
Handling in
International
Freight
Forwarding
Business
Task1:
International
freight
forwarding
business risk
prevention
Task2:
International
freight
identification
and treatment
of accident
•Correctly identify and
properly handle the
International freight
forwarding accident
•Skilled operations of the
claims and ttlements
•Understand the definition
and classification of
international shipping
accident
•Understand of international
freight dispute Solutions
•Understand the business
operations of the claims and
ttlements
•Be familiar with the basic
procedures of arbitration
and litigation
6
Total72
4.Suggestions for Cour Implementation
4.1Textbook Compilation
This cour should lect excellent textbook for vocational students,training guide books, textual rearch materials and other reference books,combined with online teaching,in order to meet students’needs in preview,classroom learning,after-school review,extracurricular lf-study and experimental training at different stages.Some conditional teaching institutions assist teaching through building cour teaching website.
