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; advantages 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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