Shipping/Maritime Transport Management and Logistics
Introduction to shipping management
-Importance of shipping to the world trade
-Description of common maritime cargo
-Types of ship and methods of carry cargo
-National and international shipping organization
• Ship operations and technology
- Importance of registration and classification of ships
• Shipping business and environment and international trade
-The economics of maritime industry (demand & supply)
-The origin of UNCTAD and its effect on the growth of shipping operation
-Review of main actors in shipping business
-Operation of the principal freight market
-Liner and tramp Services
-Basic elements of contract of carriage
-Incoterms and documentary credit
-Key Principle of Maritime Law
• Transport and Logistics Management
- The concept of logistic
- Ports and logistics chain
- Private partnership and port logistics performance
- Supply chain and seaport
- Integration of port in Supply chain
- Application of logistics hubs to container ports
- Characteristics of inter-modal transport
- Hinterland logistic management.
The subject areas shall be thought in modules.
Requirements
Evidence of Secondary School Attendance
