SDS gets rights to international forwarding course

NATIONAL training provider Skills Development Specialists (SDS) has been granted the licence rights in South Africa to the 'International Forwarder', a German-developed international forwarding programme. "Pitched at an intermediate level, we foresee that this course will provide the fundamental skills with which our students could branch out into forwarding electives should they wish," says SDS's Henri Fisher. The programme was conceived and created by Fachverlag Volmers (Germany) in conjunction with a leading global forwarder as part of an international training programme. It comprises a series of 12 modules covering airfreight, seafreight and surface transport, the role of the forwarder; customs procedures, electronic data interchange, containers, groupage and dangerous goods, as well as international trade including Incoterms. It will be presented as a 6-month correspondence course with three workshops in the major centres. Anyone with a grade 10 qualification is eligible to enrol. The first course begins in July this year. "It was designed in particular to help companies maintain the standards demanded by ISO 9000, of which training is an important element," said Fisher.