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Enrolment open for Introduction to Freight Forwarding - January 2025

The Spring Introduction to Freight Forwarding course, delivered by IIFA in association with Pearse College Dublin, will commence on Wednesday 29th January and finish on Wednesday 16th April. Enrolment is now open for participants in the course, delivered online with an exam on Wednesday 30th April 2025 in Pearse College, Dublin.

This course is subsidised to a fee of just €100 for IIFA Member with thanks to funding secured under the Skills to Advance initiative. The course has so far been completed by over 140 participants since it began in 2022.

The Introduction to Freight Forwarding course delivers a light touch introduction to the Freight Forwarding Industry through 3-hour sessions, once a week for 12 weeks. Participants gain an understanding how the Industry works, how each section operates and how they then all connect. This will the seventh offering of this programme which has proved very popular with IIFA Members. 

The learning objectives of the weekly sessions are as follows:

  • Overview of Freight Forwarding
  • Incoterms, Standard Trading Conditions and other important aspects of Freight Forwarding
  • Insurance for Freight Forwarding
  • Sea Freight Part 1 Trade Routes, Shipping Lines, General Sea Freight and more
  • Sea Freight Part 2 Documentation, Calculations demonstration, Consolidation and more
  • Overview of Air Freight 
  • Overview of Road Freight
  • Overview of Customs Clearance
  • Technology and Freight Forwarding
  • Revision Session
  • Final Examination

Pearse College will have a link for formal registration available over the days ahead. Any Members who would wish to reserve places for Colleagues on the Spring 2025 Introduction to Freight Forwarding course and do so by contacting the IIFA Secretariat via info@iifa.ie

 

Introduction to Freight Forwarding

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