BRAMPTON, Ont. — Students from Avaal Technology Solutions’ most recent logistics training programs took part in a graduation ceremony Oct. 4.

Amit Kapur, Imitiaz Mohammad, Gurpreet Gill, Gurmeet Sidhu, Mandeep Hallait, Majid Yaqub, Gurbinder Kalkat, and Rajinder Khehra. 

The graduation ceremony also featured guest speakers Yudhvir Jaswal from Midweek Newspaper and South Asian Pulse Radio, Amarjit Sangha from Asian Television Network, Vikas Gupta from Arrow Truck Sales, Melroy Coelho from Trans Core Link Logistics, Jagdish Grewal from Daily Punjabi Post, and Manan Gupta from Road Today Magazine as Master of Ceremonies.

After the ceremony, students and guests were served lunch by Avaal staff and participated in a group photograph session.

The Dispatch course consists of a four-day program, combining classroom and actual hands-on job training to prep students for their careers. The course modules introduce techniques designed to effectively launch and operate small to large scale trucking companies with an emphasis on strategic business management. Key modules include freight matching, route optimization, border crossing, and obtaining freight contracts.

Avaal’s Fast Track Freight Forwarding Course, meanwhile, is designed to address the concerns of freight forwarding professionals about skills shortages in the supply chain and logistics industry. Topics covered in the program include details of logistics operations such as documentation requirements in transportation by road, rail, water and air; warehousing, international trade, customs clearance, insurance, import-export documentation, and marketing.