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ADVANCED CERTIFICATION IN COMMERCIAL SHIPPING OPERATIONS

ADVANCED CERTIFICATION IN COMMERCIAL SHIPPING OPERATIONS

Course Summary

The ADVANCED CERTIFICATION IN COMMERCIAL SHIPPING OPERATIONS programme is built in 2 stages. In the first seven months are focused on building the foundation and in depth understanding of the shipping & logistics industry and also training the students to excel in computing and communication skills. The next five months, focus will be to impart hands-on training in the real world with internship & a thesis.

The learning and teaching will consist of a variety of elements such as lectures, tutorials, workshops, animated/non-animated video, practical work, seminars and trips. The assessment strategy will include individual/group reports and/or presentations, case studies, essays, open/closed book exams, portfolio development, reflective journals and experiential work based activities.

  • 100+ hours of delivery from industry professionals and subject matter experts.
  • Dedicated placement assistance throughout the program.
  • Hands-on learning with industry projects.

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INTRODUCTION TO MARITIME BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

Ship Brokering

AT THE END OF THIS SEMESTER,
YOU WILL BE ABLE TO

  • Provide students with a thorough understanding of the ships and its particulars
  • To gain an insight into the financial aspects in day-to-day vessel’s operations and special operations.
  • To understand the process of Marine claims, Insurance, and ship owner’s position with regards to financial liabilities, and the participant’s role in protecting the owner’s interests.
  • To apply the above knowledge towards effective cost-saving measures for ship owners
  • Thorough understanding of Voyage Estimation

Curriculum includes

READING MATERIAL
WHITE PAPERS
LEARNING MATERIALS/pDFS

Unit 1

Introduction to Ship Brokering

  • Basics of ship brokering practice
  • Introduction to top ship brokering houses
  • Job of a ship broker
  • Skills and qualification required & advantage IMBA

Unit 2

Market Study

  • Dry market study
  • Baltic report
  • Platts report
  • Study of various routes
  • Market report study for various size of vessel
  • Study of market influencing factor

Unit 3

Client Development

  • Charterers and owners database exploring
  • Consolidating list of owners and charterers
  • Consolidating list of in-house brokers, contacting the prospective clients
  • Build your own client base.

Unit 4

Negotiations

  • Firm offers from Charterers and owners
  • Thorough study of the offers
  • Passing the counters
  • Consolidating and colour coding of the counters
  • Negotiating on terms not agreed
  • CP analyses
  • Consolidating counters
  • Prepare clean recap
  • Prepare clean fix recap after lifting of subs

Unit 5

Charter Party

  • Understanding of sea contracts
  • Contract of carriage
  • Various Charter parties
  • Legal aspect of charter party
  • Preparation of Voyage and Time CP
  • Understanding of various clauses

Unit 6

Pre/Post Fixture Operation

  • Passing of voyage orders
  • Allotment of the agent
  • Issuance of LOI
  • B/L, Switching B/L
  • Laytime checking and preparation
  • Passing of invoices
  • Timely payment of hire/freight
  • Raising of brokerage invoices

Unit 7

Claim settlement

  • The legal rights and duties of parties including the charterers and the owners
  • Procedure for amicable claim settlement
  • Settlement of laytime

Ship Chartering

AT THE END OF THIS SEMESTER,
YOU WILL BE ABLE TO

  • Provide students with a thorough understanding of the principles of ship chartering.
  • Provide students a good understanding of chartering terms.
  • Deep understanding of economics of sea transport.
  • Deep understanding of financial planning & analysis
  • Make students proficient in laytime calculations.
  • Thorough understanding of Risk Analysis & Management.

Curriculum includes

READING MATERIAL
WHITE PAPERS
LEARNING MATERIALS/pDFS

Unit 1

Introduction to Ship Chartering

  • Ship charterer
  • Role and purpose
  • Different types of chartering Shipping asset
  • Shipping company
  • Multiple players
  • Integrated logistics

Unit 2

Economics of Sea Transport

  • Ship business overview
  • Major and minor dry commodities
  • Supply vs demand
  • Various cost involved in sea transportation
  • Cost analysis and economies of scale
  • Shipping and International trade

Unit 3

Types of Chartering

  • Different types of chartering
  • Demise and Bareboat charter
  • Voyage Charter
  • Time charterer
  • Charter parties
  • Obligation of owner and charterers
  • COA, Chartering participator
  • FOB&CIF contract

Unit 4

Cash Flow Analysis

  • Vessel operational costs
  • Freight calculation
  • Various commission
  • Revenue
  • Voyage cash flow
  • Annual cash flow

Unit 5

Laytime Calculation

  • Understanding of Laytime
  • CP terms
  • Dispatch, Demmurage, Terminology, Laytime clauses
  • Understanding of Laytime from Owners/Charterers perspective

Unit 6

Chartering process

  • Timeline of events
  • Completion of contracts
  • Chartering Market report
  • Various parties involved
  • Role of a charter broker
  • Cargoes and trouble

Unit 7

International Regulations

  • Various international regulations
  • ISM, SOLAS, MARPOL, Port state control
  • Effect of these regulations on ship business
  • Impact of the regulations on ship owners and charterers

Port Agency Operations

AT THE END OF THIS SEMESTER,
YOU WILL BE ABLE TO

  • Provide students with a thorough understanding of the principles of Port Agency Operation
  • Give students a good understanding of port agency terminology
  • Make students fully proficient with major and minor ports
  • In-depth know-how of PDA calculation.
  • Make students Proficient in factors influencing port charges
  • Thorough understanding of invoices and book keeping
  • Knowledge of port restrictions

Curriculum includes

READING MATERIAL
WHITE PAPERS
LEARNING MATERIALS/pDFS

Unit 1

Introduction to Port Agency

  • Basics of port agency operations
  • job of a port agent
  • skills and qualification required

Unit 2

PDA calculation

  • PDA for different ports
  • factors influencing PDA
  • explanation of the factors
  • GRT, NRT

Unit 3

Port Rules and Regulations

  • Different rules pertaining to ports
  • National Ports act
  • Harbour Master authority
  • Arrival and departure in ports

Unit 4

Custom House Procedure

  • Arrival of goods
  • Cargo manifest
  • Bill of entry
  • Custom duty

Unit 5

Duties & Responsibility of Port Agent

  • Appointment by the owner
  • responsibility for goods
  • arrangement of pilots
  • tugs, responsibility for repairs
  • documents for custom and harbour services
  • crew sign on-signoff

Unit 6

Port Operations

  • OPA, Charterers Agent
  • Various surveys
  • SOF, MR and B/L preparation
  • Loading, Discharging operations
  • Cargo care, spillages, P&I club
  • Issuance of LOP

Ship & Crew Management

AT THE END OF THIS SEMESTER,
YOU WILL BE ABLE TO

  • Explore the management interrelationship between a shipping company, their crew and vessels
  • Explain the functions of ship management, Identify the functions of the ship operations and crew management departments
  • Describe the role of human resource management in a shipping company
  • Apply core human resource management skills for managers
  • Support them when they need your help

Curriculum includes

READING MATERIAL
WHITE PAPERS
LEARNING MATERIALS/pDFS

Unit 1

Introduction to crew management

  • Basics of seafarers job roles and responsibilities as per their ranks
  • Seafarer ranks introduction, ship joining and planning, courses planning

Unit 2

Flag State requirements

  • Panama, Liberian, Marshall Island, Libya, Mauritius, Malta, Hongkong, Singapore, Bahamas

Unit 3

Documentation

  • Courses requirement under STCW 2010 and MLC 2006, STCW documents, vessel flag documentation
  • ship joining documents, Vessel requirement documents, Travel documents, Medical documentation

Unit 4

Sign on/Sign off procedures- 5 hrs

  • Course matrix, rank matrix, joiner & reliever planning

Unit 5

Ship shore communication – 5 hrs

  • Emails, sign off requests, phone calls, ship emergencies

Ship Operations

AT THE END OF THIS SEMESTER,
YOU WILL BE ABLE TO

  • Provide students with a thorough understanding of the ships and its particulars
  • To gain an insight into the financial aspects in day-to-day vessel’s operations and special operations.
  • To understand the process of Marine claims, Insurance, and ship owner’s position with regards to financial liabilities, and the participant’s role in protecting the owner’s interests.
  • To apply the above knowledge towards effective cost-saving measures for ship owners
  • Thorough understanding of Voyage Estimation

Curriculum includes

READING MATERIAL
WHITE PAPERS
LEARNING MATERIALS/pDFS

Unit 1

Introduction to Ship operations

  • Basics of shipping industry
  • commercial and technical operation of the vessels
  • organisation of a shipping company
  • characteristic of the shipping company, ship segments

Unit 2

Pre & Post Fix Operations

  • Preparing of vessel position
  • updating the tonnage
  • managing day to day operational activit
  • liaising with external agents

Unit 3

Voyage Performance

  • Voyage costs, factors which lead to rise of cost
  • minimising the costs, managing payment to charterers

Unit 4

INCOTERMS

  • Basics of INCOTERMS, explanation of various terms,
  • usage of the terms, relationship between Buyer & Seller
  • export and import clearance, rights and duties of buyer and seller

Unit 5

Voyage Estimation – 15 hrs

  • Basics of Voyage estimation, PDA, Bunker, Hire
  • Components, Break even calculation, TCE

Unit 6

LOI / BOL – 20 hrs

  • Concepts of LOI, issuance, formats, validity, legal implications of LOI
  • Functions of BL, Endorsement, format, issuance, legality of BOL , Letter of Credit UCP 500vs UCP 600.

Port Management

AT THE END OF THIS SEMESTER,
YOU WILL BE ABLE TO

  • Understand the role of shipping and ports in the global logistics supply chain.
  • Explore commodities transported, ship types and changes in trade routes due to globalization.
  • Discuss the characteristics of different port and terminal types.
  • Identify the legal basis for the establishment of ports.
  • Understand the need, principles and structure of insurance requirements for ports.
  • Review port cost structure, income and pricing tariffs

Curriculum includes

READING MATERIAL
WHITE PAPERS
LEARNING MATERIALS/pDFS

Unit 1

Introduction to Port Management

  • Roles and responsibility of a port manager, characteristics of a port and terminals
  • various port administration models, port authority vs terminal operators

Unit 2

Marine Operations Management – 10 hrs

  • Roles and responsibility of harbour master, safe and efficient pilotage services
  • maritime safety in context of environmental management

Unit 3

Economics of port operations – 10 hrs

  • Analyses of Port Economics Landscape, Review of port cost structure, income and pricing tariffs
  • Review of financial management practices for port managers

Unit 4

Port Labour and People Management

  • Describe the historic and current port labour environment
  • Discuss the effective management of staff in ports

Unit 5

Current Indian Port Development

  • Inland waterways, Sagarmala project, optimal utilization of port resources
  • Major and Minor Indian ports, Public and Private partnership

Unit 6

Case Study- East and west coast Indian ports

  • Integrate learning from across the course to a topical case study situation
  • Produce a detailed and well-structured written business report

Maritime logistics & Law

AT THE END OF THIS SEMESTER,
YOU WILL BE ABLE TO

  • Upon successful completion of this module the student will be able to
  • Discuss the role of shipping in the wider logistics and supply chain.
  • Explore port management and operations
  • Understand and implement Charter Party Clauses
  • Understand the principle of Merchant Shipping Act
  • Apply the UNCLOS in daily practice

Curriculum includes

READING MATERIAL
WHITE PAPERS
LEARNING MATERIALS/pDFS

Unit 1

Introduction to International Maritime Logistics

  • Basics of maritime transport, various modes of transportation via sea
  • organisation of sea and land transport, supply chain management of sea transport

Unit 2

Major & Minor Commodities – 10 hrs

  • Categories of Dry bulk Commodity, Grain, Minerals, steel products
  • Stowage factors, IMSBC code, Port v/s Commodity, Coal, Iron Ore and Wheat

Unit 3

UNCTAD Report

  • Latest UNCTAD report, Economics of transport
  • Maritime trade in different countries, Numbers and sizes of bulk carriers

Unit 4

Charter Party Clauses

  • Bunker clause, Sistership clause, New Jason Clause, Hague-visby rules
  • Both to blame collision clause, Himalaya clause

Unit 5

Merchant Shipping Act

  • Application of MSA, registration of Ship, Unseaworthy Ship
  • Unsafe Ship, Articles of Agreement, Marine Casualty, duties of a master

Unit 6

UNCLOS

  • Demarcation and delimitation of the boundaries, Freedom at high seas
  • duties of flag state, nationality of the ship, Piracy at high seas, Innocent passage

Internship & Dissertation

AT THE END OF THIS SEMESTER,
YOU WILL BE ABLE TO

  • Upon successful completion of this module the student will be able to
  • Discuss the role of shipping in the wider logistics and supply chain.
  • Explore port management and operations
  • Understand and implement Charter Party Clauses
  • Understand the principle of Merchant Shipping Act
  • Apply the UNCLOS in daily practice

Curriculum includes

READING MATERIAL
WHITE PAPERS
LEARNING MATERIALS/pDFS

Unit 1

Introduction to Ship Brokering

  • Basics of ship brokering practice
  • Introduction to top ship brokering houses
  • Job of a ship broker
  • Skills and qualification required & advantage IMBA

Unit 2

Market Study

  • Dry market study
  • Baltic report
  • Platts report
  • Study of various routes
  • Market report study for various size of vessel
  • Study of market influencing factor

Unit 3

Client Development

  • Charterers and owners database exploring
  • Consolidating list of owners and charterers
  • Consolidating list of in-house brokers, contacting the prospective clients
  • Build your own client base.

Unit 4

Negotiations

  • Firm offers from Charterers and owners
  • Thorough study of the offers
  • Passing the counters
  • Consolidating and colour coding of the counters
  • Negotiating on terms not agreed
  • CP analyses
  • Consolidating counters
  • Prepare clean recap
  • Prepare clean fix recap after lifting of subs

Unit 5

Charter Party

  • Understanding of sea contracts
  • Contract of carriage
  • Various Charter parties
  • Legal aspect of charter party
  • Preparation of Voyage and Time CP
  • Understanding of various clauses

Unit 6

Pre/Post Fixture Operation

  • Passing of voyage orders
  • Allotment of the agent
  • Issuance of LOI
  • B/L, Switching B/L
  • Laytime checking and preparation
  • Passing of invoices
  • Timely payment of hire/freight
  • Raising of brokerage invoices