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Shipping Business 101 For Transport and Logistics Analysts - rlscorner - 10-18-2026
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Shipping Business 101 For Transport and Logistics Analysts
Published 10/2026
MP4 | Video: h264, 1920x1080 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Language: English | Duration: 2h 25m | Size: 660.86 MB
Container shipping cost structure, spot freight rates and charter rates, newbuilding orderbook and delivery lag and more
What you'll learn
Explain why a twenty-year ship is sold into a daily-priced market and what that mismatch causes
Break a voyage into four cost lines and identify which move when rates fall
Distinguish the spot freight rate from the charter rate and explain why they diverge
Trace how an eighteen-month newbuilding lag makes the industry order into strength
Describe what alliances share, what they keep separate, and what regulators examine
Calculate the fuel saving from slow steaming and its effect on fleet capacity
Identify the three exit routes for surplus tonnage and the price thresholds that trigger them
Read TEU, FEU and utilisation figures and explain why empty repositioning occurs
Interpret a bill of lading's three functions and who holds risk under each Incoterm
Requirements
None - no prior banking or finance knowledge is required
Description
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.
Container shipping looks simple from the outside: a box goes on a ship and arrives somewhere else. The business underneath is stranger. A liner company buys an asset that must earn for twenty years, then sells its output into a market whose price is quoted daily and set by nobody in particular. Every feature people argue about - alliances, slow steaming, idled fleets, the orderbook - follows from that one mismatch.
This course is for analysts, bankers, finance professionals and freight buyers who want to understand a container line as a business rather than as a headline. It works through the cost lines of a single voyage, the two markets that price the same ship, the eighteen-month lag that makes the industry order at the wrong time, and the document layer that decides who carries risk.
You will read real segment reports, build a unit cost per box, and trace a freight rate spike through to the profit line. The lessons use published figures from carriers, terminals and forwarders, with the caveats stated where the public numbers cannot answer the question.
The course teaches an industry, not an investment. By the end you will be able to open a carrier's quarterly report and know what each line means, and to read the next shipping headline and work out which figures follow from it.
Who this course is for
Transport and logistics analysts covering container shipping lines
Finance professionals valuing carriers or their debt
Supply-chain managers who buy ocean freight and negotiate contracts
Code:
https://rapidgator.net/file/49e16d08c0118e300ca9978e6ca11e0e/Shipping_Business_101_For_Transport_and_Logistics_Analysts.rar.html