Green Worldwide Shipping® (Green) is a proud ongoing sponsor of The University of Georgia’s Small Business Administration annual ExportGA 2025 program.
EXPORTGA PROGRAM
ExportGA 2025 is an intensive four-session, 16-hour export training program which allows export-ready companies to develop trade skills. By utilizing these skills throughout the program, new international sales opportunities are identified. Companies accepted into the program will become skilled at finding profitable export markets, developing distribution channels, understanding foreign and U.S. regulatory issues, pricing and costing company products, submitting international quotations, processing accounts receivable and recognizing legal and cultural considerations. Each participating company will have access to its own international business student from the University of Georgia to help with research as well as working with export resource partners.
Learn from Green Worldwide Shipping’s freight experts Thomas Jorgensen, CEO and Co-Founder, Kellie Gerstmyer, LCHB, CCS, East Coast Compliance Manager, Thomas Due, Corporate Export Manager, and Rene Baganz, Atlanta Branch Manager to learn how to successfully export products from Georgia.
PARTICIPANTS WILL
- Learn how to identify potential foreign markets
- Understand international trade terminologies
- Work with export trade assistance partners in GA
- Develop foreign marketing strategies
- Determine financing and risk options for exports
- Understand international logistics terminology and obligations with usage
PROGRAM DETAILS
Friday, August 22, 2025
8:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Friday, September 19, 2025
8:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Friday, October 17, 2025
8:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Friday, November 14, 2025
8:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Preregistration is required to attend. Learn more at https://georgiasbdc.org/training-program/0727-001-itc-exportga-2025/
Additional Details
Registration email/URL - https://georgiasbdc.org/training-program/0727-001-itc-exportga-2025/
Organizer
Chief Executive Officer & President
Thomas Jorgensen began his career in shipping with Maersk Line in 1989 in Denmark after studying economics at Aarhus University. Thomas moved to the United States via Boston in 1991 to work for a global forwarder, and in 1994 relocated to Atlanta to start up the U.S. operations of a Scandinavian NVO. After earning a partnership as President for this global forwarder, Jorgensen later founded and became the President and CEO of Green Worldwide Shipping®.