Certificate of Freight Forwarding International

Unit 1- Complete and check import/export documentation

• Document procedures
• Regulations and legislation
• Quarantine legislation
• Biosecurity legislation
• Export documentation
• Timeline for document completion
• DIBP client registration
• EXDOC exporter registration
• Import declaration forms (N10)
• Export declaration form
• Export control manual
• Permits
• Import permit
• BICON
• CITES requirements
• Customs clearance
• Import declaration and
• Non-compliance penalties
• Cargo clearance screening
• Letters of credit
• Payment process
• Complete documentation
• Customs requirements
• Standard operating procedures
• Workplace procedures
• Data entry
• Import / export database systems
• Document completing assistance
• Coding
• Goods classification
• Legislative requirements
• Checking documentation
• Letters of credit
• Certificate of origin (CO)
• International Commercial Terms
• Dangerous goods documentation
• Lodge documentation

Unit 2 – Organise transport of freight or goods

• Transport operations
• Knowledge of products
• Dangerous goods
• Package marking
• Perishable products
• Fragile goods
• High-value goods
• Domestic regulations
• International regulations
• Procedures for transport
• Employer/employee responsibilities
• Australian standards
• Driver fatigue laws
• Hazard identification
• Risk assessment and management
• Control measures
• Handling equipment
• Timelines
• Complaints procedure
• Freight requirements
• Intermodal transportation
• Multimodal transportation
• Organise freight transport
• Budgets
• Secured freight
• Packaging procedures
• Vehicle mass and permit schemes
• Freight safety
• Risk management
• Mechanical-handling equipment
• Personal protective equipment (PPE)
• Transport equipment
• Communication
• Workplace health and safety
• Freight discrepancies
• Complete organisational processes
• Track and trace systems
• Information security

Unit 3 – Maintain freight records

• Freight record receipts
• Consignment/cartnote details
• Action Documentation
• Workplace procedures
• Legislative requirements
• Dangerous goods
• Shipping documents
• Freight tracking systems
• Loading and storage
• Load risk assessment
• Record freight dispatch
• Process freight documentation
• Incorrect documentation

Unit 4 – Manage export logistics

• Export logistics
• Plan efficient export logistics
• Safety data sheet (SDS)
• Classes of dangerous goods
• Marine orders
• International maritime dangerous goods codes
• Road and rail transport codes
• Transport license/ permit requirements
• Export quarantine requirements
• Environmental protection legislation
• Workplace relations regulation
• Consignment loads
• Customer instructions
• Quality customer service
• Capacity of transport modes
• Intermodal transportation
• Multimodal transportation
• Weighing up cost versus time
• Company objectives
• Urgent orders
• Equipment and technology
• Efficient and effective delivery
• Types and compatibility of load
• Bond and customs requirements
• Fatigue management / breaks
• Operational deficiencies
• Workplace process flow
• Outsourcing components of operation
• Contingency management strategy
• Infrastructure support
• Continuous improvement
• Establish times and routes
• Planning and scheduling movements
• Contingency planning
• Operational schedules
• Recruitment and selection
• Fatigue management
• Employee training / support
• Tracking procedures
• Terminal operating systems
• Customer purchase order
• Packaging and labelling
• Non-compliance
• Australian Border Force (ABF)
• Regulations and legislation
• DIBP client registration
• EXDOC exporter registration
• Import declaration forms (N10)
• Export declaration form
• Compliance audit
• Law and Ethics

Unit 5 – Consolidate freight

• Capacity and capability of transport
• Transportation systems
• Types of freight
• Packaging and labelling
• Hazards and risks
• Risk assessment
• Control measures
• Consignment documentation
• Segregation requirements
• Segregation devices

Unit 6 – Assess and confirm customer transport requirements

• Goods / stock to be transported
• Quality customer service
• Customer loyalty
• Customer service policies
• Consulting with customers
• Types of goods to be transported
• Gross Vehicle Mass (GVM)
• Aggregate Trailer Mass (ATM)
• Heavy vehicles
• Dangerous goods (9 classes)
• Correct packing of goods
• Dangerous goods shipping document
• Environment protection
• Load handling
• Injury risks
• Mechanical handling aids
• Securing loads / tie-down lashing
• Distribution management
• Urgent customer orders
• Intermodal transportation
• Multimodal transportation
• Scheduling driver hours
• Freight pickup and destination
• Site safety checklist
• Cost versus time
• Transit times
• Risk management
• Parameters of service requirements
• Quotations
• Cargo insurance