Courses Bachelor Display 2024-2025

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Course title Global Transportation Management
Course code EBC2065
ECTS credits 6,5
Assessment Whole/Half Grades
Period
Period Start End Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri
4 3-2-2025 30-3-2025 X X
Level Intermediate
Coordinator Tom Schiefer
For more information: t.schiefer@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Language of instruction English
Goals
The course Global Transportation Management provides a detailed introduction into different transportation modes and their applicability in single – and multimodal contexts. The course stimulates critical thinking and own opinion formation. By encouraging students to actively shape form and content of multiple tutorial sessions in repeated facilitation settings, social skills, communication skills, character traits, attitudes complement the hard skills developed. The comparatively high proportion of exchange students contributes to the achievement of the aforementioned goals in an inherently international classroom setting.
Description
The aim of this course is to examine the role of transportation in international business in detail. It is the objective to provide students you with a conceptual understanding of the conditions faced by transportation managers in an international environment. Topics include complexity of international shipments, economic and legal environment of ocean, air carriers, freight forwarding, carrier selection, contract logistics and export documentation. Furthermore, it covers - among others - the cost structure and documentation of shipments, conference system for shipping lines, international sourcing, service priorities, and future outlooks for transportation logistics.
Literature
The literature assigned for this course draws from a variety of sources of stakeholders involved in global transportation management. The course is supplemented by a large selection of scientific articles of leading academic logistics and supply chain journals. Cases are used to illustrate the different concepts.
Prerequisites
This course has been cancelled for the pre-master International Business specialisation Supply Chain Management.
See the Bachelor Education and Examination Regulations for more information.

The following rule applies to pre-master students who started the programme prior to academic year 2023-2024.
Specifically:
* Pre-master International Business specialisation Supply Chain Management
TRANSITIONAL REGULATION (EBC2065):
Students who have not been able to successfully complete "Global Transportation Management" (EBC2065) before 2024-2025, do not comply with the requirement to successfully complete the pre-master in two academic years. Therefore, no additional examination options will be available.


PREREQUISITES:
* At least one course in Logistics at Introductory level (level comparable to: The Management of Business Logistics: a Supply Chain Perspective, by J.J. Coyle, E.J. Bardi and C.J Langley (2003))
* An advanced level of English.
Teaching methods (indicative; course manual is definitive) Presentation / Lecture / Assignment / Groupwork
Assessment methods (indicative; course manual is definitive) Final Paper / Participation
Evaluation in previous academic year For the complete evaluation of this course please click "here"
This course belongs to the following programmes / specialisations
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Bachelor Economics and Business Economics - International Business Economics Year 3 Core Course(s) - Maj SCM
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