The American Society of Transportation and Logistics (ASTL) is planning to collaborate with the Shippers’ Academy Colombo (SAC) to certify and endorse transport and logistics courses.
This relationship was endorsed during the Transcomp 2011 annual sessions, held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, in association with the National Industrial Transportation League (NITL) where Laurie Denham, President ASTL and CEO Shippers’ Academy Colombo CEO, Rohan Masakorala, agreed to a joint arrangement to develop professionalism in the field of transport and logistics in Sri Lanka.
Mr Masakorala said, in a press release, that, this would be a new opportunity for the Sri Lankan logistics industry with the new initiative to bring in American certification to the emerging maritime economy of Sri Lanka.
The ASTL is a professional organization founded in 1946 by a group of industry leaders in the US to insure a high level of professionalism and promote continuing education in the field of transportation and logistics. The CTL (Certified in Transportation and Logistics) Certification Program (that it offers) began in 1948.
Last year, the ASTL and the Singapore Shippers’ Academy agreed to certify courses and to develop curriculum to suit the needs of the industry with ASTL international certification. “With its connection to the Singapore Shippers’ Academy, ATSL has now expanded its scope to Sri Lanka, and in 2011 it was agreed to collaborate to certify and endorse courses conducted by the Shippers’ Academy Colombo,” the statement added. |
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