The Course attempts to equip the students with the knowledge of the various functional aspects involved in physical distribution of goods in international markets.
Introduction to Marketing Logistics system: Concept, Objective, Importance, Logistic Tasks.
Strategic Logistics planning, The important Concepts-Cost trade off, Total cost concept, Total system concept.
Inland Transport: Road, Rail, water & Air Transport
Warehousing: Concept, Functions, Warehousing Corporations in India.
International Transport System:
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.
Multi Modalisation: concept, advantages and disadvantages of containerization, types of containers, combined transport document(CTD),
Inter modalism and multi modalism.
Indian shipping- 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-5
[2] https://foreigntrade.iisuniv.ac.in/academic-year/2021-2022