Port Management Masterclass

Delegates will be involved in a highly interactive learning environment, learning how to identify the tips and tricks that sector professionals use to maximise leverage, credibility, and competitive advantage in this highly complex marketplace.

Training course methodology will include handouts, flipcharts, questions, and participation from participants, as well as the course tutor posing a series of scenarios and both real-world & theoretical examples.

At the end of this Port Management Masterclass, you will learn the following:

• How terminals to maximise revenue and profit?
• Overview the security and protection of the port and terminal
• Analyse business strategy, marketing, business development & sales, pricing, and customer service
• Understand economic factors governing port and terminal operations
• Realize how economic factors can help to determine managerial and operational parameters
• List the economic drivers affecting the international logistics market
• Acquire knowledge of the sector-specific leadership and discuss management issues
• Learn legislative structures governing terminal and port operations – How these can dictate operational processes & procedures?
• Understand the contractual issues relating to shipping lines, cargo owners
• Gain a competitive edge in this fast-evolving marketplace

The Port Management Masterclass training course is designed to benefit industry personnel, directors, and other staff within the sector.

This Gulf Rowad Port Management Masterclass  is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

• Port and Terminal top managers
• Specialists working in the departments interfacing with the Shipping
• Superintendents and shift managers
• Marine officers starting their career in the shore-based Port sector
• Operations, Technical and Procurement officers
• Warehouse and supply managers and professionals
• Those new to the port and terminal management
• Existing personnel in the sector, who are migrating to a management related function
• Managerial staff looking to gain a greater insight into the sector
• Staff wishing to understand how the economics, supply chain and business case sector management affect their function

Organisational Impact

Delegates will gain the following from attendance:

• Strengthen understanding on how to devise a sector-specific strategic plan
• Increase ability to implement their strategy to ensure success
• Greater insight into the supply chain, marketing, and economic workings of the port and terminal operational sector
• Be knowledgeable on how to explain and justify managerial decisions and strategy
• Heighten understanding on the strategic template that can be used to guarantee a competitive-edge

Personal Impact

Participants will gain on the following:

• Enhance knowledge of management theory and practice, with direct relevance to the sector
• An appreciation of macro and micro-economic issues affecting the port and terminal sector
• How terminals have become a vital element of the commodity and goods supply chain
• How terminals are integral to the effective operation of ports
• How to integrate strategic knowledge and operations with other forms of management practice within the sector?
• The value of visionary management
• How to deal with a crisis in the port and terminal?