Certified by Cognicert Business School, United Kingdom

OBJECTIVES

• Understand and apply relevant case law and government statutes to ensure their company’s transportation operations are compliant with legal requirements.
• Minimize or avoid claims by understanding common law and Contracts of Carriage across the specific modes as well as the role and limits of the Bill of Lading.
• Find and use legal precedent to initiate and strengthen claims against carriers or other third parties.
• Get the most value from outside legal counsel by being better informed and able to ask the right questions, saving your company time and money.
• To explain the laws and government regulations as they apply to the railroad and motor carrier industries.
• To describe how the laws and regulations impact the shipping, movement, storage, insuring and receiving of goods.
• To state the use of bills of lading, tariffs, rate agreements and discounts in domestic commerce.
• To explain the rights and obligations of shippers, carriers, intermediaries, insurers and receivers of freight.
• To record how court and administrative agency decisions affect all parties to transportation arrangements.

TARGET AUDIENCE

• Logistics, Clearing and Import Officers and Managers, Legal and other staff in charge of Transport and Logistic activities.

PROGRAM CONTENT

• Sources of law (international treaties and case law)

• Statutes and Regulations governing transportation
• The requirements for conducting operations as a carrier, a freight forwarder or a truck broker
• Contract law and contracts of carriage

• Contracting between the parties to transportation.
• Bills of Lading terms, conditions and forms.
• Liens for the payment of freight.
• Liability for the payment of freight charges

• Transportation claims Management

• Planning and identifying claims management
• Legal claims risk assessment and management
• Claim Prevention: Monitoring,
• Claim Mitigation- insurance etc
• Claims Acceptance
• Claim Resolution
  • Customer service
  • Internal resolution
• Transportation Dispute Management
  • Arbitration
    • Case law affecting transportation and logistics arbitration as an alternative remedy.
  • Court Dispute
    • Carriers’ liability for loss, damage and delay, and the burdens of proof when administering claims and suits.
• Employment law in transport and logistics industry.