The Course attempts to equip the students with the knowledge of the various functional aspects involved in physical distribution of goods in international markets.
Concept, Objective, Importance, Logistic Tasks.
Strategic Logistics planning: Concepts-Cost trade off, Total cost concept, Total system concept.
Road, Rail ,water, Air Transport
Warehousing: Concept, Functions, Warehousing in India, Warehousing Corporation
Air transport, Air Authority of India, Air services in India, advantages and problems.
Ocean Transport: Significance, Types of ships, liners and Tramps, advantages and problems thereof.
concept, advantages and disadvantages of containerization, Inter modalism and multi modalism.
Importance, Features of Indian shipping policy and problems.