Catherine J. Petersen
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In 1992 Catherine J. Petersen founded CJ Petersen & Associates, which is a research, training and consulting firm. She has designed documentation and procedure manuals for exporters and has co-authored two training manuals: Exporting: Regulations, Documentation, Procedures and International Small Business Logistics. Both books are used by firms as training manuals. Ms. Petersen is a speaker and trainer on documentation and regulations, transportation and payment procedures.

Ms. Petersen has been a freight forwarder, an ocean carrier representative and active in international business since 1980. While working as a freight forwarder, she was active in preparing and presenting documents to banks weekly for shipments under letters of credit. These were shipments that involved a great deal of coordination to assure that the supplier and shipper were paid, and the buyer received the properly executed documentation for high value shipments of cranes, water-well drilling equipment and vehicles in the Middle East.

She holds both graduate and undergraduate degrees from Mankato State University in regional planning. In addition, she has been active in several organizations including the University of Minnesota's Center for Transportation Logistics Task Force, Twin Cities Round Table of Logistics Management, Minnesota World Trade Association, and the International Transportation Committee of the Transportation Research Board.

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