10 Unit Credit Values

• Shipping and Globalisation: Global trends and the trade-offs in cost/sourcing, Global ports and requirements of future port operations
• Value of Operating and Agile Ports: Components of an agile port, advantage and disadvantages, Methods utilised in an agile port to link transportation modes
• Resource Requirements: Advantages of specialised equipment, limitations on the equipment and resources available in port operation, Limitations of land use, location, resilience within the national operation structure of port operations
• Containerised Shipping Operation: Intermodal and transmodal networks, Sequencing of movement of containers

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