Global Logistics Management, INCOTERMS, & Exports By Sea/Air

From INCOTERMS to sea & air-freight export workflows – manage global logistics with confidence for 2026

Welcome to the online course on Global Logistics Management 2025, INCOTERMS, & Exports By Sea/Air.

In today's globalized world, businesses operate on an international scale, and Global logistics management of goods is crucial for their business success. This course is designed to provide you with a comprehensive understanding of the principles and practices of global logistics management, including the latest updates in INCOTERMS 2020/ INCOTERMS 2025, explained for exporters, and all about exports by air.

What will you learn?

Throughout this global supply chain logistics course, you will learn all about international logistics management and the role and significance of different modes of transportation, including air, sea, and land. You will also gain insights into the critical aspects of supply chain management, such as procurement, inventory management, and warehousing.

However, the course focus remains on understanding the movement of goods in international waters or air, from the country of origin to the country of destination. Therefore, all aspects of understanding exporting by sea as well as exporting by air are covered in this course.

The core learning relates to dealing with intermediaries who help in moving goods across borders. The course covers the impact of a few revolutionary innovations in past decades related to unitization, palletization, and standardization, giving birth to the idea of automating the loading, unloading, and stowing of goods in specialized containers throughout their journey across continents in very large sea vessels or extremely fast and fairly large aircraft.

Additionally, the global supply chain logistics course will delve into the intricacies of INCOTERMS 2020. These international commercial terms are essential for international trade. These terms ensure that all parties involved in an international sales contract understand their roles and responsibilities in the shipment and movement of goods across borders. Here, you will learn about the different types of latest INCOTERMS and how they affect the cost, risk, and responsibility of the parties involved in international trade.

The course also discusses the basics learning of exporting by air. It has an exclusive section on this aspect.

The Ideal Students for this Course

This export by air/sea logistics course is ideal for professionals who want to enhance their knowledge of global logistics management, including logistics managers, supply chain managers, import-export professionals, and entrepreneurs. By the end of this course, you will have a comprehensive understanding of international logistics management and the latest updates in INCOTERMS 2020, enabling you to manage international logistics with confidence.

Topics Covered

These are some of the popular topics that are covered in this course

• Understanding of the basic concepts of logistics

• International Supply Chain Management

• Carriers, Intermediaries, and Reverse Logistics Providers

• Intermodal and multi-modal transportation, like NVOCC and Others

• Surface and sea transportation

• Ocean Freight Rates

• Export logistics air freight process

• Unitization, palletization, and standardization

• Container-led logistics

• Dry ports, ICDs, CFSs

• Reverse logistics

• Freight Rates

• Customs Clearance Process

• Types of sea-faring vessels

• Types of cargo aircraft

• International regulations for cargo movement by air and sea

• INCOTERMS 2020 / INCOTERMS 2025 explained for exporters

Case Studies

Some of the case studies included in this course are:

1. Opening case study - Logistics scenario in India

2. Preset customs examination norms in the Indian customs

What is this course all about?

I welcome you to this new export by air/sea logistics course, the title of which is Global Logistics Management, INCOTERMS, & Exports by Sea/Air explained for exporters, and Exports by Air. In International business and International Trade, and in general, for carrying out any kind of corporate activities, you have to have very good knowledge about the process and operations related to the movement of goods within the country as well as internationally.

This course has been prepared to make you understand everything about logistics management, with a special focus on global logistics management 2026. The idea of the course is to give you the ways and means and the concepts that are involved in the international movement of goods.

Wth this course, you will have a fairly good knowledge of the overall international logistics management. I will also try to include a little bit about e-commerce retail logistics in this course. but the focus will remain on the international movement of goods by sea, by air, or by any other mode of transportation.

And the advancement in technology in recent decades has made sea transportation fairly cost-effective. We have very, very large ships that can carry goods internationally almost to any sea-based destination anywhere in the world. It is possible to transport goods by surface, air, and through pipelines. However most used mode of international movement of goods is by sea. The result is that around 10% of the world's GDP now floats on the sea. So that is very, very interesting.

As I just told you, is that sea transportation is very affordable because of the very, very large ships that are now manufactured, which are floating on the sea. Currently, the biggest ship can carry up to 24,000 Twenty-foot containers (TEUs).

Now, every 20-foot container can carry almost 15 tons of cargo. So you can imagine we are talking of the sizes of the ships of the order of something like 300,000 metric tons. So 300,000 metric tons of ships, when you compare it with the 250 tons that an average train can carry, or the 20 tons that are truck can carry. You can understand the importance of these big, very big ships in making the transportation of goods so cheap internationally. The significance is huge for these biggest ships, which are floating on the sea.

About the Instructor

Dr. Vijesh Jain is an IIFT, BITS, and Harvard Alumnus with more than 37 years of practical experience in international trade and operations. Widely traveled abroad, he has authored and co-authored more than 10 books in the area of international trade, including one on the subject of this course (books available on Amazon and Kindle Store). He is a freelance professor and a foreign trade consultant. He also provides online and offline training to working executives and foreign trade professionals. He is also a visiting professor at reputed B Schools in India. In the past, he has worked as Dean and Director of reputed B Schools. In the corporate world, he has worked with international organizations in international trade in senior positions. He is also a pioneer of the Cross-Cultural Management research model of CFC.

Statutory AI Declaration: AI has been used in some parts of the content creation of this course.