Is freight forwarding a job that requires an education in your country?

If I understand it right, it's very different in different countries.

In Sweden, you used to not require an education for it but demands changed around 2010 and today companies will not hire you unless you've studied for it at either trade school or university.

I study for it right now, and I will be finished in June 2027. It's a 2 year long education, where the topics we study are these:

Digital Tools for Freight Forwarding, 10 credits

Degree Project, 20 credits

Global Cargo Flows, 15 credits

Quality Management Systems, 10 credits

Work-Based Learning (Internship) 1, 50 credits

Work-Based Learning (Internship) 2, 80 credits

Logistics, 35 credits

Environmental and Transport Law, 25 credits

Environmental Calculations and Green Transport Costing, 25 credits

Environmental Logistics for the Green Transition, 30 credits

Presentation Skills and Business Communication, 10 credits

Freight Forwarding, 40 credits

Transportation Terminology and English, 10 credits

Transport Economics, 20 credits

Customs Management and International Transport Systems, 20 credits

One credit is one lesson, so transports economics is 20 lessons long.

What's it like in your country?

Posted Jan 27, 2026, 11:38 AM UTC

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