Who should take this course?

1. Shipping personnel
2. Freight forwarders
3. Sales and marketing staff
4. Accounts administrators  
5. Purchasers/sellers
6. Bankers
7. Traders  
8. Importers/exporters
9. Businessmen  
10. Anyone interested in international trade

What you will learn:

1. Basics of Letter of Credit and functions
2. Payments by drafts
3. Drafts as means of collection
4. Justifications for Letter of Credit
5. Different kinds of Letter of Credit
6. Uniform Customs and Practices for Documentary Credits  
7. Instructions for creating/opening a Letter of Credit  
8. Advice on using a Letter of Credit
9. Relationship between buyers and sellers that use Letter of Credit  
10. Obligations associated with Letter of Credit
11. Roles and responsibilities of the banks as intermediates
12. How to make sure the process of buying and selling goods goes as smoothly as possible
13. Possible problems with Letter of Credit and how to fix them  
14. Basics of Bill of Lading
15. Different types of Bill of Lading