Business English Pod BEP 420 English for Logistics 1: Transport Modes and Incoterms
Business English Pod BEP 420 English for Logistics 1: Transport Modes and Incoterms is an audio lesson from Business English Pod, a publisher of Business English podcast lessons for working professionals. The lesson introduces the language of shipping schedules, transport arrangements, documentation and incoterms through a conversation between a production manager and a logistics manager planning shipments from Europe to the United States.
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How It Helps Your Business English
A streaming audio player and an MP3 download carry the lesson. Written sections explain why logistics vocabulary matters when goods move between suppliers, warehouses, ports and customers, and introduce transport modes and incoterms as the terms that define buyer and seller responsibilities. Three listening questions and links to the related lessons follow.
Read the three listening questions first, then play the lesson and answer them as Cam and Anna work through the shipping options. Download the MP3 to listen again away from a screen. Replay the passages where the incoterm abbreviations appear to hear how responsibilities are stated aloud, and move on to the later lessons in the series for routing, capacity and cost language.
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