Skip to main content
Institute of Advanced Technological and Commercial Studies

TP11 · Level 5

Customs Declarant and Freight Forwarding Agent

Target occupation: declarant, forwarding agent.

Target occupation
declarant, forwarding agent
Level
5 — Senior technician and supervisor
Duration
9 months
Taught hours
600 h
Credits
60

Framework

Competency blocks

Each block is assessed separately and stays acquired. That is what lets you resume an interrupted path without starting over.

  1. Customs regulation

    180 hours

    Customs regimes, customs value, tariff classification, origin, disputes

  2. Documents and declarations

    170 hours

    Document sets, declarations, filing systems, inspections

  3. Transport and forwarding

    150 hours

    Modes, chartering, Incoterms, insurance, shipment tracking

  4. Costs, invoicing and client relations

    60 hours

    All-in quotations, invoicing, disputes, dealing with principals

  5. Professional conduct

    40 hours

    Ethics, dealing with the customs administration

Questions

How is this title awarded?

Through a workplace simulation before a panel of practitioners, together with a professional portfolio recording what you actually produced. An occupation is proven by practising it, not on paper.

What employment rate do you publish?

None, and that is deliberate: no cohort has yet completed this title. The six-month employment rate is this family's own indicator, and we will publish it once a cohort has produced one — not before. An invented figure here would be the first thing an employer checks.

Customs Declarant and Freight Forwarding Agent — IHETC