Transport Manager Responsibilities and Risk Based Insurance Analysis

The field of transportation management is a relatively new but very important and challenging field. The transport manager is an expert with knowledge concerning all kinds of vehicles and the transportation processes. The transport manager plays a very important role for the general public involved in the transportation of goods. People may have difficulties to understand the transportation process involving goods, for example, which truck carrier is the best suited for a specific group of people or how the shipment would be processed in time and space. People are only concerned about their goods and their shipment from origin A to destination B in a safe and timely fashioned. This fact clearly indicates that people need the services of a transport manager. The transport manager has to be very careful when making a decision during the whole transportation process, because a wrong decision could cause physical damage to the goods or delay the reception of the shipment. For these reasons, the transport manager needs a really good insurance that covers the whole responsibility of the transportation process. The transport manager has to do his job without stress and without worries.

Ivana Šimková is currently a PhD student at Department of Road and Urban Transport (University of Žilina, Slovakia). She obtained her Masters of Science in Civil Engineering in May 2012 from University of El Paso and also her Masters of Science in Logistics and Transportation from University of Žilina.