A Career in Logistics and Freight Forwarding (JTJS22008)

Hi, my name is Nikki, I'm 17 years old, I just finished school and am now looking for a

career

. Yes, well you can have a great

career

as a border

freight

forwarder and part of the Worldwide Freight Distribution team for DHL Express New Zealand. showing you around will be just fidal the DHL Domestic Operations Trainer Hi Hi Niki I'm Jinta welcome to DHL Express Have you ever wondered how we handle cargo transportation when it comes to the country, not really, but now I want to know what it is a Very very early start and air plugs are a must as Nikki watches the cargo coming from Australia and a Boe 727-200 nicknamed the Jedi, what is happening now, see that gentleman driving that truck that tows, he is going to go and let's go. to unload from the belly of the plane and all our cargo is on the plane, we are going to take it out and bring it back.

The goal of Freight Foring or Freight Forers is really to make the process easier for the customer so that people can. send a shipment from A to B to anywhere in the world and feel confident that it will arrive there in one piece on time, without any problems in terms of customs clearance and that's what it's all about, you've seen the plane and

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coming . from the plane, yeah, and what's going to happen is it loads up here and it comes in these huge sardine cans, we call them cans for short, and I come and I go to this rolling floor made especially so you can See, put your foot there , which actually roll and the idea is that this is specially created so that two men can push it, instead of needing 10, what T is doing now is scanning this barcode and that will tell everyone at the DHR. world that everything here just arrived in Oakland, that's how we know where everything is at all times when I first came on board.

I thought in 2 weeks I will get it very easy and it's been 4 years and I'm still learning learning to drive a for Co know how to unload a plane um be aware of all the customs regulations for cargo to arrive we need to know what we can and what we can't we can ship what are dangerous goods um and then in addition to knowing how to package everything and ship it to the right person in the right amount of time, the next step is to get the cargo from here to this transporter. Bel, a great trainer, is a person who is willing to ask questions who wants to learn just has a great attitude if he has them and we can do anything. 80% of the freight was cleared for customers before entering the country, but it is up to the forers to capture the other 20%, which must be held in the bond warehouse until approved and that requires attention to detail we cannot afford to to have a shipment go through that shouldn't be delivered we can't afford to have something that's a dangerous good, you know, travel through our system when it shouldn't because it could harm people when the cargo is sorted, it ends up with the driver. career.

Each barod is scanned again to confirm that the package arrived at the van and then we just go and get a printout here, that's just telling us that we have um 39 pieces inside the van, yeah, and you make the deliveries and order them out. , so when you scan them, you actually scan them in order, yeah, so when you scan them, that's the order that they all came out, so we'll go from stop to stop as I scanned it. A lot of people think that driving C is a really stressful job, but it all comes down to time management and it all comes down to focusing on your clients and in a way, it's a certain relationship, so the better the suicide, the more They will be willing to help me in return.

It's a pretty long day, but it's a very rewarding day. Because you like it, I mean you actually build good friendships with people and you end up becoming um, you actually end up socializing on the weekends with them and being invited to company functions and things like that, so it's a very rewarding job, Come on, delivery man. national certificate and freight transport trains students and customer service, correct driving procedures and border control legislation, hey, you're at work, learn at your own pace, in your own time , there is a little homework to do, but with a little hard work, it is surely achievable thanks thanksgiving see you guys, the cers pick up packages leaving the country and deliver them back to the warehouse, they are all entered into the computer to begin the tracking process to their destinations, all monitored by quality control. center, this is great, eh, here we can monitor our operations team processing our cargo, so they will be like scanning it, preparing it for the flights, putting them in the can and on the plane, we monitor everything as soon as they pick up the scan , the rear card and when delivered, the computer monitors show the winning cargo movements in real time.

Freight forward is the travel agents nickname for Freight, okay Nikki, the reason we need to stack our unit well is because we need to use it. all the space we have mhm and we keep our customers safe and damage free transportation the next time you see a dog and it's running you know it's being delivered to you. Think about all the time it took to get it. your friend all the way to that race and your hands I'm done, okay, you think you're done, uh, first of all, uh, it's a bad thing to have stacks of columns, so you have boxes here just stacked on the tower as a column uh the bad thing about that is when we load this on a plane and the plane takes off we have an upside down box here it could be damaged sorry we better let the professionals take it from here Nikki the Jedi has to do it. charge quickly so she can travel to Sydney and back in 6 hours.

Oh, Nikki is beautiful. um, she had a really good attitude and she was willing to go in there and push that can, go in there and unload that load. um and that's it. what we need so we have the shipments in those cans they are loaded they are on the plane ready to fly until sunset how did you find it? I had a good time, yeah, it was really great, what was it? your favorite thing is probably meeting new people and learning new things about freight distribution and stuff and how you ship everything and yeah, it's cool.

I love the fact that we help connect people and we do it fast and we are brilliant at what we do cargo ping, the industry offers three certificates and cargo management, international cargo shipping and as a professional driver there are no requirements specific entry levels, but useful school subjects include English, mathematics, computing and languages. The freight transportation industry is expanding rapidly and there are many career prospects. Additional training can lead to supervisory and managerial positions. Contact trans qual it for more information on local content so you can see more of New Zealand on air.