BA4059 Containerization and Allied Business Syllabus:
BA4059 Containerization and Allied Business Syllabus – Anna University PG Syllabus Regulation 2021
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
To provide an overview of the various elements of containerization and allied businesses
To realize the potential of containerization and allied businesses
UNIT –I BASIC CONCEPT OF CONTAINERIZATION
Introduction to Liner Shipping industry – Unitization concept and methods – Malcolm Mclean and the birth of containerization – Generations of container ships and their specification – Container types, their specifications and cargoes carried in them.
UNIT –II FREIGHTING AND SIZE OF CONTAINER
Container shipping business – FCL and LCL sea freight products – Freighting of FCL and LCL cargo – Slot utilization strategies – Estimation of optimum container fleet size – Multiport LCL consolidation
UNIT – III CHARACTERISTICS AND PHYSICAL OPERATIONS
Containerisation: Concept, Classification, Benefits and Constraints, Container terminal business World’s leading container terminals and location characteristics – container terminal infrastructure – container terminal productivity and profitability-Inland container Depots(ICD)Roles and functions – Container Freight Stations(CFS),Clearance at ICD, CONCOD,ICD’s under CONCOD, Charting: Kinds of Charter, Charter Party and Arbitration.
UNIT – IV CONTAINER TYPES AND BUSINESS
Container manufacturing trends – Container leasing business – Types of container leasing and their terms – maintenance and repair of containers – tracking of container movements – Container interchange.
UNIT – V MULTIMODAL TRANSPORT
Alternate uses of containers -marketing of used containers -carriage of shipper own containers – multimodal transport options for containers -Insurance for containers -strategies for managing container imbalance.
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
COURSE OUTCOMES:
The students will learn the practices and ways to promote containerization and allied businesses
The learners will have a complete idea about the different concepts, trends and strategies used for containerization and allied businesses
REFERENCES:
1. Marc Levinson, The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger, Princeton University Press, 2008.
2. Dr. K. V. Hariharan, Containerisation, Multimodal Transport & Infrastructure Development In India, Sixth Edition, Shroff Publishers and Distributors, 2015.
3. Lee, C.-Y., Meng, Q. (Eds.), Handbook of Ocean Container Transport Logistics Making Global Supply Chains Effective, Springer, 2015
4. Coyle et.al, Management Of Transportation, 7th Edition, Cengage Learning, 2011