Transport & Logistics qualifications in Austria
There are a number of formal qualifications / certificates within transport and logistics in Austria. Please find a selection of relevant VET qualifications/ certificates and common training pathways below (non-exhaustive list).
Transport and delivery
- Professional driver – specialised in transport of goods or passengers (apprenticeship)
- Mobility service merchant (apprenticeship)
- Officer for hazardous goods (Specialised school/ Academic education)
- Freight forwarding manager (Specialised school/ Academic education)
- Merchant for courier services (Specialised school)
- Postal service employee (Short training programmes/ Special in-company training)
Warehouse and logistics
- Operational logistics clerk (Apprenticeship/ Specialised schools)
- Logistics manager (Academic education)
- Logistics clerk (Specialised schools/ Academic education)
- Freight forwarding merchant (Apprenticeship)
- Freight forwarding logistics clerk (Apprenticeship)
- Freight forwarder (Specialised school)
- Dispatcher (Specialised school/ Academic education)
- Supply chain manager (Specialised school/ Academic education)
- Warehouse worker (Semi-skilled job)
- Dispatch department employee (Semi-skilled job)
Other Qualifications in rail, air and shipping transport
- Inland waterways mariner (Semi-skilled job/ Apprenticeship)
- Harbour master (Short training programmes/ Special in-company training)
- Dispatcher (air traffic) (Short training programme/ Special in-company training)
*Web-links lead to German descriptions.
** (Specialised) schools: Academic secondary schools, Vocational schools, Vocational colleges and others; Academic education: universities, universities of applied science
