Supervision of Container Freight Stations (Offered in Arabic Only)

Course details

Course Outlines:

• Introduction: CFS staff, supervisors and responsibilities
• Planning — advance information and work scheduling
• Planning — storage space requirement and allocation
• Planning — packing, loading and stowage space requirement
• Supervisory control of cargo movement; the control system
• Supervision and control of export handling
• Supervision and control of import handling
• Supervision and control of ‘special’ cargoes
• General supervisory responsibilities.

Course Objectives:

This Unit is designed:

• To discuss the labour and equipment resources of a CFS, and the procedures for allocating and deploying them.
• To explain the procedures by which the reception, storage and dispatch of cargoes are planned and prepared.
• To describe the procedures followed in controlling and supervising the handling of export cargoes through the CFS, arriving by road, rail and inland waterway transport.
• To describe the procedures followed in controlling and supervising the handling of import cargoes through the CFS, leaving via road, rail and inland waterway transport.
• To review the general responsibilities of the CFS supervisor.
• To improve the quality of CFS supervision and to provide the knowledge and skills for a critical review of current supervisory procedures and mechanisms.