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CILTSF
Shipping & Freight Forwarding
Logistics & Shipping
Professional level
30 Hours
20 Modules
Self-paced
Learn at your own pace
Certification
Earn a CILT Credential
CILTSF
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- Learn at your own pace, anytime and anywhere
- Structured, practical content built around real-world application
- Digital resources, tools, and templates to support your learning
- Verifiable certification recognizing demonstrated proficiency
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About the CILTSF Certification
Take command of the movement of cargo across borders. You will learn ocean and air freight operations, multimodal transport, dangerous goods handling, Incoterms 2020, trade documentation and finance, customs and compliance, freight pricing, cargo insurance and claims, and the digital tools reshaping forwarding.
What You Will Learn
- Explain how freight forwarding underpins global trade flows.
- Map the stakeholders and service providers behind a shipment.
- Compare transport modes on cost, speed, and risk.
- Run ocean bookings and control demurrage and detention.
- Calculate air freight chargeable weight and consolidation.
- Design multimodal and cross border transport chains.
- Classify and handle dangerous and specialized cargo.
- Apply Incoterms 2020 to allocate cost and risk.
What you take away
Skills You'll Build
Freight Forwarding Operations
Ocean and Air Freight Management
Multimodal Transport Planning
Dangerous Goods Handling
Core Topics
Who Is This Course For?
Freight forwarding and shipping executives
Earn a CILT-recognized shipping and forwarding credential
Export and import coordinators
Handle export and import processes accurately
Customs and documentation staff
Manage customs and shipping documentation
Logistics and supply chain professionals handling international cargo
Handle international cargo end to end
Shipping and documentation coordinators
Keep bills of lading and shipping documents accurate
Transport and fleet supervisors
Link transport and forwarding operations
What's Included?
Self-paced modules you can revisit anytime- Digital study resources and templates
- Knowledge checks and practice assessments
- The fee includes course, examination and certification fees
Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport
Certification terms and policies apply
Course Outline
- Why Global Trade Depends on Freight Forwarding
- Major Trade Lanes and Cargo Flows
- The End-to-End Supply Chain of a Shipment
- Institutions, Regulators, and Trade Bodies
Complete the professional assessment to earn the csff credential
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