Supply Chain Frontiers issue #50
Twenty-five senior managers from Kazakhstan Zemir Zholy (KTZ), the national railway company of Kazakhstan, were schooled in intermodal transportation at a one-week executive education course organized by the Zaragoza Logistics Center (ZLC).
The course took place on June 17-21, 2013, and was co-taught by Dr. Chris Caplice, Executive Director of MIT’s Center for Transportation & Logistics, and Dr. David Gonsalvez, Director of the Zaragoza Logistics Center.
Headquartered in Astana, Kazakhstan, KTZ is the largest employer in the country with over 180,000 employees – more than 1% of the nation’s population of 16 million.
The organization has built a profitable business transporting passengers and freight such as coal, uranium, and copper to neighboring countries. But the fastest growing segment of its network is the flow of containers from China to Europe, hence the focus on intermodal.
During the course, attendees learned how to better manage intermodal transportation and what logistics skills are required in this mode. The course included lectures, onsite tours, real-world case studies, and hands-on workshops. Students were challenged to come up with strategies on how to expand KTZ’s intermodal business and attract more of the highly sought-after container traffic from Asia to Europe.
This was the second executive education course ZLC has held for KTZ. The first one took place in Zaragoza, Spain in 2012.
Read KTZ’s press release on this year’s executive education course here.