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100% Online

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Self-Paced

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UK Institution

About this programme

Ninety percent of world trade moves by sea, and most of the delay happens at the quayside, not the ocean. This Maritime Logistics course from Royale Business College is built for shipping, freight, and port professionals. Across four lessons it covers berth allocation and container yard operations, intermodal connections, customs and documentation, and the shipping line economics that decide what a route is worth.

What will you learn

How container terminals actually work: berth allocation, yard strategy, and crane productivity
Connecting sea, rail, and road without losing the time you saved at the quay
Navigating customs clearance, documentation, and where shipments genuinely stall
The commercial logic of shipping lines, rates, and capacity cycles

Programme lessons

Inside a Container Terminal Berth allocation, yard strategy, crane productivity, and the real constraint.
Intermodal Networks and Hinterland Connection Sea to rail to road, and where the handover costs you the day.
Customs, Documentation and Compliance Clearance paths, paperwork failure, and why shipments actually sit.
Shipping Economics and Capacity Cycles Rates, alliances, and why capacity swings from famine to glut.

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Your instructor

Dr. Bari Courts Executive Leadership Advisor Dr. Bari Courts spent twenty-four years leading large organisations across the logistics, financial services, and professional services sectors. He has guided businesses through periods of rapid growth, organisational restructuring, post-merger integration, and crisis, while serving on the boards of three organisations. He speaks with the perspective of someone who has made difficult, often unpopular decisions and accepted their consequencesâ€”calm, grounded, and quietly candid about what leadership truly demands.

Begin Your Programme

Terminal Productivity Analysis Template
Berth and Yard Planning Guide
Intermodal Handover Checklist
Customs Documentation Workflow
Freight Rate and Capacity Cycle Tracker

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A container crossing an ocean is doing the easy part. The expensive, complicated, failure-prone portion of its journey happens in the few miles and few days around a port, and that is where this Maritime Logistics course spends its time.

You begin inside a container terminal, working through berth allocation, yard strategy, and crane productivity to find the constraint that genuinely governs throughput, which is usually the yard rather than the quay. The second lesson follows the box inland through intermodal networks, where a beautifully efficient port operation routinely surrenders its gains to a rail path or road slot nobody secured.

The third lesson covers customs, documentation, and compliance, the unglamorous administration that determines whether a shipment clears in hours or sits for a week over one wrong field. The final lesson pulls back to shipping economics: rates, alliances, and the capacity cycles that swing the industry from scarcity to glut and back with brutal regularity.

Taught by port and shipping executive Erik Sandoval within the executive education portfolio at Royale Business College, this online course keeps the focus on the box moving, because that is the only time it earns.

From our students

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"Pursuing my DBA at RBC Royale Business College was a highly valuable experience that enhanced my research skills, strategic thinking, and professional capabilities. The programme provided a strong academic foundation while maintaining a practical focus on real-world business challenges. The...

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