Long hours, some shift work involved, sleep at home!

Marine terminals are busy places. All day and all night ships are bringing in the next “must-have’s” for the season. As a Ship Planner your job is to make sure that everything onboard a container ship is properly stored and placed. You must know how much a ship can carry, the proper weight distribution so that it doesn’t sink, and how on earth you’re going to get all those containers in there!

Be it rain or shine, China or Canada, a Ship Planner coordinates the loading or unloading of massive amounts of cargo communicating with Terminal Operators, Longshoreman, and many other staff. With amazing organizational skills you are responsible for helping cargo find its right destination because one mistake can send your running shoes to a different city and leave you with someone else’s boxer shorts!

On the job training plus some post-secondary education in transportation/logistics

Port terminal operators such as DP World and TSI Terminal Systems Inc.

• BCIT
• Canadian Institute of Traffic & Transportation
• Careers in Logistics

With additional training and education you can move into more managerial or senior level positions at a terminal or into other areas of logistics planning.

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