Specialist courses for foreign-based staff

In a world in which small and medium sized businesses pitch themselves into increasingly competitive and internationalised milieus, it behoves them to provide their staff with training courses that are specially designed to deal with international business issues.
Lodi Export offers the following courses:
- foreign languages;
- international shipping and payments;
- customs and excise procedures;
- international contracts;
- international marketing;
- introduction to strategic markets.

Language courses

The Consortium organises courses in which students can learn the technical and commercial terminology of the main languages used in international trading.

Workshops and seminars

Lodi Export regularly organises conferences at which it makes presentations on specific countries or strategic trade areas as well as on any significant legal changes related to foreign trading.
Some of the most recent initiatives of this kind include:
- The door to India (14 June 2006);
- Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan (30 November 2006);
- New UCP 600 regulations (25 June 2007);
- Guarantees in international trading (1 April 2008).

News and in-depth analysis of international trading

Lodi Export sends regular and exclusive information bulletins to all our members. These communicate novelties and openings in the field of foreign trade, as well as services and initiatives that benefit member companies.

Finance for exports

Lodi Export supplies an information and consultancy service covering laws, measures or programmes currently in force at regional, national or EU level concerning financing of international expansion on the part of small and medium sized businesses.

Lodi News for exports

Each month, news, opportunities and in-depth analysis of foreign trade are brought to the attention of our members by means of a syndicated newsletter distributed in both paper and electronic format.