APM Terminals partners with ESADE

Chosen from applicants within the APM Terminals Global Port, Terminal and Inland Services Network through a rigorous selection process, MAGNUM participants undertake a three-module, one year programme featuring practical terminal hands-on training assignments as well as rigorous classroom curricula. APM Terminals has identified the core competencies for port and logistics management development and has partnered with the ESADE Business School for classroom training in these valuable skill areas.

ESADE was established in 1958 and is regularly included among the rankings of the world’s top graduate business programmes by various independent business and education publications. ESADE is ranked in the top ten best Business Schools in the world and is ranked fifth in the 2011 Financial Times ranking in Custom Programmes. It is a part of Spain’s Ramon Llull University, which encompasses ten individual colleges and institutions of higher education. ESADE is accredited by the European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS), the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International) and the Association of MBAs (AMBA). ESADE also includes a separate Law School.

“ESADE’s key mission is to train individuals to become highly-competent professionals fully aware of their social responsibility. We promote education and research through our Law School and Business School with a firm commitment to intellectual rigour, critical analysis and academic excellence” said the school’s director general, Eugenia Bieto.