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, The important Concepts-Cost trade off, Total cost concept, Total system concept.
Road, Rail, water & Air Transport
Warehousing: Concept, Functions, Warehousing Corporations in India.
Air transport: Airports Authority of India, Air services in India, Directorate General of Civil Aviation, advantages and problems.
Ocean Transport: Significance, Types of ships, liners and Tramps, advantages and problems thereof.
concept, advantages and disadvantages of containerization, types of containers, combined transport document(CTD),
Inter modalism and multi modalism.
Importance, Features of Indian shipping policy, problems of shipping industry.
Ram Singh, “International Trade Logistics”, Oxford University Press
• V.V. Sople, “Logistics Management”, Pearson
• Cherunilam Francis “International Business”, Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Company Limited, New Delhi
• N.P. Subba Rao : International Business, Himalaya Publishing House, New Delhi
• IGNOU International Logistics Module
Links:
[1] https://foreigntrade.iisuniv.ac.in/courses/subjects/elements-export-logistics
[2] https://foreigntrade.iisuniv.ac.in/academic-year/2019-2020