Floating rate system and Fixed rate system

Primary holding company and Intermediate holding company

Currency swaps and Interest rate swaps

Balance of trade and Balance of payment

What you do mean by transaction exposure? Describe various techniques available to manage transaction exposure both in the short term as well as the long term.

Define yield curve. How is it constructed? How does interest rate risk influence the yield curve?

What are the advantages of centralised cash management? How can pooling provide benefits for international cash management? How does liquidity preference affect international cash management decisions?

Privatisation of ports

Freight Traffic

US Shipping Act of 1916 and US Shipping Act of 1984

Dredging Corporation' of India

Inter-modalism and Multi-modalism

Clean and Qualified Bill of Lading

Shipowners' Lien and Maritime Lien

General Cargo Rates and Specific Cargo Rates

"Objectives and policies for functioning of the supply chain and usually in conflict both within and across operational units".

"Overworked ports suffer from low level of efficiency and productivity and so have become costly ports from the users' point of view."

"Distribution, marketing and manufacturing cannot be viewed as separate activities within the business, particularly at the strategic level."

Dedicated warehousing is a combination of public and private warehousing services."

Describe the nature of Air way Bill. State the duties and liabilities of carrier of goods by air.