Would you like to go on a cruise with the Business Logistics Degree?
The implementation of the theoretical content together with the skills acquired in an academic training, is becoming a reality during the academic courses.
Companies welcome university students to train them in their own environment, and university students are satisfied because it allows them to have their first experience with business and public organizations, and at the same time they have the opportunity to put the assimilated content into practice.
What is commonly called, first encounter with the real world of work.
And what better way to do internships for the Business Logistics Degree (Supply Chain Management) than on a cruise ship?
Our students have the opportunity to learn in situ in a workshop course on board the Ro-Pax ship “Cruise Barcelona or Rome” of the Grimaldi Lines company, on its way between Barcelona and Civitavecchia.
Course objective
The objective of the course is to train professionals in the logistics, transport, port and international trade sector in intermodal maritime logistics, short sea shipping services and motorways of the sea.
Within this course there will be a theoretical part and a practical part; even a real case where the participants will have to solve in teams a colloquial administrative transport situation analyzing the different possible alternatives and calculating the times and costs of the operation.
Why study logistics or supply chain management?
First of all, what exactly is it?
Logistics are all the operations carried out to make it possible for a product to reach the consumer from the place where the raw materials are obtained, passing through the place of production. They are mainly the operations of transport, storage and distribution of the products in the market.
Logistics is also considered, all those positions that determine the organization of a business and its proper functioning.
If you are one of those who wonder about the importance and professional opportunities of Logistics, a clear example that it has a fundamental weight in modern commerce is what happened with the Evergreen cargo ship and the cascade of circumstances that followed.
On March 23, 2021, while traveling from the port of Tanjung Pelepas, in Malaysia, to the port of Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, the ship ran aground in the Suez Canal, blocking it and causing a great media stir and economic alarm, by preventing the passage of other cargo ships.
To this day we are still suffering the consequences of that blockade that lasted barely a week.
Both the “rescue” operations and the management of the more than 200 cargo ships that were destined to pass through the same point as the Evergreen, entailed logistics and international coordination tasks to move the ship forward and tackle the catastrophic consequences that it would to generate.
Can you imagine having been involved in this project?
In conclusion, we find ourselves with a demanding labor market for this type of position, in addition, companies are looking for the student to have “some” experience.
What about learning by doing on a cruise ship?
