Anatomy of Shipping Course Curriculum

Course Overview
Please note: This programme may be subject to alterations
- Background
- Introduction to the shipping industry
- World political & economic issues
- International institutions and their role in shipping
- The role of the IMO
- Workshop: “Does the independent shipowner have a future?”
- Owning Ships: Acquisition
- The shipbuilding market
- The sale and purchase deal
- Newbuilding Sale & Purchase
- Reading the market: the role of the shipbroker
- Investment appraisal techniques
- Financing ship acquisitions
- Identifying the best finance deal
- The Law
- Commercial Law: charter parties and bills of lading
- International law of the sea
- Technical Ship Management
- Ships and their operational problems
- The classification societies
- Shipowners’ Bunker Purchasing Strategies
- The challenge of information technology in the next decade
- Commercial Ship Management
- Ship management as a service
- Crewing and training
- Lloyd’s of London insurance market
- Marine insurance overview
- Marine claims
- Protection and indemnity insurance
- Chartering
- Post-Fixture: chartering operations
- Laytime & demurrage
- Use of Forward Freight Agreements
- Shipping Markets
- Dry bulk shipping
- Liner shipping and the container trades
- Container operational logistics and the terminal interface
- The chemicals and gases trades
- The tanker market
- Practical applications of Worldscale
- The cruise shipping market
- Future development of world seaborne trade
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