Subscriber price: $174.00, Non-subscriber price: $225.00
Estimated total study time: 14 hours 18 minutes
This course addresses the various regulatory requirements imposed by the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission on ocean freight forwarders, NVOCCs and agents of foreign NVOs arranging or providing transportation via U.S. ports. It is designed for managers, supervisors, sales, and full charge operations staff responsible for providing and marketing these services.
Important: This course has been updated to include detailed coverage of NVOCC Negotiated Rate Arrangements ("NRA") which became available for use on April 18, 2011.
The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission exists to protect shippers and consignees, particularly small ones, from unfair practices by ocean common carriers, and to protect U.S. flag common carriers and U.S.-based NVOs from discriminatory practices by foreign carriers or nations. In this lesson we will address how the FMC performs these regulatory mandates given to it by the U.S. Congress.
(Estimated study time: 41 minutes)
This lesson addresses the mechanisms by which scheduled ocean carriers establish their shipping rates, other charges and conditions of service, including tariff publication and alternatives to tariff publication.
(Estimated study time: 59 minutes)
This lesson addresses ocean carrier tariff enforcement by the FMC, and then shipper-VOCC Service Contracts in lieu of tariff rules and rates for ocean transportation.
(Estimated study time: 1 hour 8 minutes)
This lesson covers the FMC regulations with respect to:
(Estimated study time: 1 hour 18 minutes)
In this lesson we address the relationship between shipper and forwarder as being that of agent to principal, a forwarder's responsibilities a agent, and operational concerns when working with foreign forwarders in obtaining routed shipments.
(Estimated study time: 1 hour 12 minutes)
This lesson focuses on the relationship between an ocean forwarder and the ocean carrier, particularly an NVO. We pay special attention to the frequent case in which a forwarder concurrently acts as an NVO for its's shipper's cargo.
(Estimated study time: 1 hour 13 minutes)
This lesson serves as a summary of issues already learned, plus a number of additional compliance issues, with links to more information for those learners who which to expand their understanding.
(Estimated study time: 52 minutes)
(Estimated study time: 1 hour 18 minutes)
This lesson addresses confidential "NSAs" between an NVOCC and a shipper.
(Estimated study time: 1 hour 13 minutes)
This lesson addressed this important new (April, 2011) ability of NVO's to enter into negotiated rate arrangements with shippers in a much simpler way than an NVOCC service arrangement ("NSA"), thereby avoiding the requirement to publish freight rates in their tariffs, and maintaining rates conficential.
(Estimated study time: 1 hour 33 minutes)
This lesson addresses NVO B/L issuance and carrier liability.
(Estimated study time: 49 minutes)
This lesson addresses the benefits and risks of NVO co-loading, including U.S. regulatory concerns.
(Estimated study time: 1 hour 18 minutes)
In this final lesson, key FMC compliance and operational issues are reviewed in checklist format.
(Estimated study time: 44 minutes)