• COURSES

The Escola Europea – Intermodal Transport is a European training center and a reference for intermodal transport and logistics, promoting sustainable logistics in Europe through innovative courses. Our aim is to promote intermodal transport as the basis for sustainable logistics chains in Europe and throughout the Mediterranean. Our courses have been designed by our team with the overall aim of giving the students a complete view of intermodality.

Check out our training offer below:

Our Classrooms

Our classrooms belong to the Mediterranean

The classrooms of the Escola Europea – Intermodal Transport take the courses one step further by bringing the participants to the environments where short sea shipping and logistics operations take place:

Located in the Mediterranean, the Ports of Barcelona, Civitavecchia (Rome), and Genoa are equipped with the best instruments to let the students get familiar with the logistics communities.

The courses on board of a Ro-Pax vessel on a crossing between two main ports in the Mediterranean along some of Europe’s main short sea shipping routes or on board of a train help the participants experience the operations firsthand and absorb the teachings more efficiently.

The city where our headquarters are located is Barcelona. It is more than just one city to Europe and to the Mediterranean. It is a friendly meeting point that represents a unique way of understanding life and fraternity.

The Port Visit

One of our most popular options, the visit offers a maritime tour of the Port of Barcelona’s. We offer shorter and longer visits, taylored to each group’s needs.

Visit to the Port of Barcelona: operations and infrastructures

In collaboration with the Port of Barcelona and its port community actors, we offer a visit to the Port of Barcelona and its environment. In this course you can observe the operations, traffic, infrastructures and operators based in the port first-hand through a guided maritime tour and inland visits to maritime terminals.

MOST

The MOST – Motorways of the Sea Training – courses take the intermodality courses one step further by exploring a complete short sea shipping operations on board of a Ro-Pax vessel. Our students are offered the opportunity to study intermodal operations on a Grimaldi Lines or GNV vessel on the crossings between the cities of Barcelona, Civitavecchia and Genoa. The additional lectures offered ensure that a complete knowledge of these is acquired by the students in an eminently practical environment.

We offer the following MOST courses:

MOST Italy

MOST (Motorways of the Sea Training) Italy is the training course for professionals that the Escola Europea Intermodal Transport offers exclusively to the Italian logistics and transport market.

MOST Management

Accessing specific training in intermodal transport and Motorways of the Sea will allow you to design, build and manage door-to-door logistics operations more efficiently and safely, and will provide you with the tools to analyse direct costs and environmental impact for subsequent optimisation.

SURCO

Our SURCO courses take place in Barcelona and focus on the operations of intermodal rail operations. The course participants are offered either a brief introduction or a complete view of all of the logistics zones and the way that the terminals work in intermodal rail operations. Taking place in Barcelona, the SURCO courses have the advantage of having access to some of the most modern and contemporary terminals.

We offer the following SURCO courses:

ADIF rail terminal

SURCO Operations I

Accessing specific training in intermodal transport and the operations that take place to move between different modes of transport in ports, with a particular focus on rail transport, will allow you to design, build and manage door-to-door logistics operations more efficiently and safely, and will provide you with the tools to analyse direct costs and environmental impact for their subsequent optimisation.
Container on tracks in the TCB terminal - Escola Europea's SURCO course

SURCO Operations II

This advanced edition of the SURCO course takes you to explore the Port of Barcelona, and offers several visits to important national and international infrastructures, such as an Inland terminal in Zaragoza or a cross-border terminal in Perpignan.

Technical Courses

Over the years the Escola’s focus has expanded from short sea shipping operations towards other facets of the transport chain. The new set of Technical courses were created with the goal of offering professionals specialized training that’s complementary to the other courses offered as well as to contribute to Professional Development.

We offer the following technical courses:

Port Operations

Port Operations – Vessels

Accessing specialised training in the operations that take place within a port, with a particular focus on arriving and departing vessels, will help members across the transport spectrum to understand and hence better plan their transport operations more efficiently and safely. The practical workshops will also help bring the participants closer to the port community, and help them understand maritime logistics, the actors and their roles.

Port Operations – Goods

Accessing specialised training in the operations that take place within a port, both from a service and an operational perspective, will help members across the transport spectrum to understand and hence better plan their transport operations more efficiently and safely. The practical workshops will also help bring the participants closer to the port community, and help them understand maritime logistics, its actors and their roles.

Temperature Controlled Supply Chains

Accessing specific training on the peculiarities that revolve around the transport of temperature-controlled goods will help you get a better understanding of the Cold Chain, and will provide you with the tools to analyse direct costs and environmental impact for their subsequent optimisation.
Image of groupage operations - loading of grouped pallets

Groupage and Consolidation Centres

Accessing specialised training in intermodal transport, with a particular focus on groupage operations, warehouse logistics, and groupage operations and infrastructures will help you to design, build and manage door-to-door logistics operations more efficiently and safely. Subsequently, this will help improve services and reduce costs and the environmental impact of your operations.

Courses on demand

Alongside the above-listed regular courses, the Escola also offers on-demand courses suited to the needs of individual groups. These courses can cover highly technical aspects of transport (Occupational Risk Prevention, e-Freight, etc), or be customised to beginners to the transport field (SURCO Introduction, Introduction to Intermodality). For more information and availability, contact us.

Medway locomotive

Port2Rail Iberia 2020

Port2Rail is the Escola's training course in maritime-rail intermodality with a focus on port-rail operations on the Iberian peninsula.

Introduction to Intermodality

The course gives priority to practical training and is based on experiential learning. Terrestrial visits to specific parts of the port and on-board visits to a vessel are carried out, during which its main actors explain the operations in detail.

Maritime Trade and Logistics

The course on Maritime Trade and Logistics aims to provide training on intermodal transport and logistics. Participants will gain deep insight to maritime logistics, its actors, roles and market segmentation and trends.

SURCO Introduction

The course is taught through practical workshops and lectured classes using audiovisual materials as teaching aids. The classes are interactive and the students are encouraged to participate actively.

e-Freight

The course offers global knowledge on traceability operations and information exchange in multimodal transport of goods. The course combines theoretical lectures on e-Maritime operations and e-Freight workshops.

Occupational Risk Prevention in Port Operations

The course on Occupational Risk Prevention in Port Operations provides training on the organisation and management of occupational risk prevention (ORP) and corporate social responsibility issues in a commercial port.

Forma’t al Port

Since the launch of the Forma’t al Port project in 2014, the Escola’s doors have seen thousands of young Catalan students pass through its doors in the pursuit of logistics knowledge and professions. The courses have been incredibly popular and now form part of the Escola’s regular courses.

Below are the different types of courses offered in the Forma’t al Port framework:

Forma’t al Port – Introduction

This course aims to give young students of the secondary schools of Catalonia an introduction to the professions within the Catalan maritime logistics sector.

Forma’t al Port – TALENT

The Forma't al Port - Talent training programme is a complete training in the elements that make up a logistics-port community and its intermodal connections.

Port Virtual Lab

Digitalization of operations is a fact, the Escola Europea has developed a training platform that allows performing operations related to logistics and international transport in our Virtual Port Community.

Both professionals and students will be able to experience first hand activities related to international trade, while interacting with our simulated companies at the Port Virtual Lab. 

Port Operations

Port Operations – Vessels

Accessing specialised training in the operations that take place within a port, with a particular focus on arriving and departing vessels, will help members across the transport spectrum to understand and hence better plan their transport operations more efficiently and safely. The practical workshops will also help bring the participants closer to the port community, and help them understand maritime logistics, the actors and their roles.

Port Operations – Goods

Accessing specialised training in the operations that take place within a port, both from a service and an operational perspective, will help members across the transport spectrum to understand and hence better plan their transport operations more efficiently and safely. The practical workshops will also help bring the participants closer to the port community, and help them understand maritime logistics, its actors and their roles.

Temperature Controlled Supply Chains

Accessing specific training on the peculiarities that revolve around the transport of temperature-controlled goods will help you get a better understanding of the Cold Chain, and will provide you with the tools to analyse direct costs and environmental impact for their subsequent optimisation.
Image of groupage operations - loading of grouped pallets

Groupage and Consolidation Centres

Accessing specialised training in intermodal transport, with a particular focus on groupage operations, warehouse logistics, and groupage operations and infrastructures will help you to design, build and manage door-to-door logistics operations more efficiently and safely. Subsequently, this will help improve services and reduce costs and the environmental impact of your operations.