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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.
- Arbitration
- Employment law in transport and logistics industry.