Shippers’ Academy launches career development courses

A career development path in Transport, Logistics and Trade (TLT) has been introduced by the Shippers’ Academy Colombo (SAC), with its collaborative partner, Sri Lanka Foundation (SLF), which comes under the Presidential Secretariat.

The career path has three segments, where a three-month certificate course will lead to a requirement fulfilment of the Director Merchant Shipping, to hold a license to operate a logistics company in Sri Lanka. Students who complete the TLT course will be eligible to follow an advanced certificate course in Shipping and Logistics offered at the Institute of Human Resource Advancement (IHRA), University of Colombo (UOC), a nine-month course to be launched in 2013, in partnership with SAC and SLF.

“The IHRA of UoC will offer an external degree to students who complete the advanced certificate course,” a spokesman for the Academy said.The first batch of students for the TLT is being enrolled and the course is scheduled to commence on August 24 at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute.

The CEO of the Shippers’ Academy, Rohan Masakorala, said, “TLT will cover all aspects of logistics which will include multi-modal transport, shipping, international documentation, international trade and related subjects.”