Maritime Department

Maritime and Shipping Management (MBA)

Key Feature

Code                               MMSC218

Modules                        9

Duration                       14 months

Registration                 Any time
Teaching                       Distance learning

Credits                           90 ECTS-aligned

Tuition Fees                 $9,500
                                        €9,500

Overview
The Maritime and Shipping Management (MBA) provides a rigorous, practice-oriented pathway for current and aspiring professionals across shipowning, chartering, port operations, marine insurance, and maritime services. The program blends executive-level management training with deep sector knowledge—covering shipping operations, cargo and port management, carriage of goods and chartering, marine environmental governance, insurance and risk, ocean processes relevant to navigation and safety, and maritime economics and finance (including modern data-driven and quantum-finance concepts).
Through applied assignments, case studies, and a supervised dissertation, graduates learn to diagnose operational challenges, make evidence-based decisions, and lead teams in a dynamic, international industry.

Objectives

  • Build a comprehensive understanding of ship operations and management, maritime regulations, documents, and standards.

  • Develop operational and commercial expertise in port, terminal, and cargo systems, including safety and hazardous goods.

  • Master the legal–commercial framework of carriage of goods by sea and chartering (voyage/time charters, contracts, disputes).

  • Apply marine environmental regulation, compliance, and sustainability tools to reduce risk and cost.

  • Quantify risk and protection using marine insurance principles (MIA, proximate cause, losses/liabilities).

  • Interpret ocean and coastal processes that influence routing, safety, and port/terminal planning.

  • Use maritime economics & finance—markets, investment appraisal, risk management, and emerging analytics—to drive strategy.

  • Conduct ethical, methodologically sound research and communicate results clearly to professional and academic audiences.

  • Deliver an original dissertation that addresses a real maritime problem with actionable recommendations.

Learning Outcomes:
On successful completion, graduates will be able to:

  • Explain the structure of the maritime industry, ship types, documentation, and IMO/ISM frameworks.
  • Plan and evaluate port, terminal, and cargo operations, balancing efficiency, safety, and regulatory compliance.
  • Apply the legal principles and commercial practice of chartering (laytime, demurrage, NOR, contracts and disputes).
  • Assess environmental risks and implement marine environmental protection and sustainability strategies.
  • Analyse and structure marine insurance cover; interpret causation, interest, and liability to manage claims.
  • Integrate ocean circulation and coastal processes into navigational, operational, and infrastructure decisions.
  • Interpret maritime market cycles, freight/asset pricing, and finance instruments; appraise investments and manage risk.
  • Use quantitative and qualitative research methods, sampling, and quality criteria to generate valid evidence.
  • Visualise, report, and defend analyses with professional clarity for executive decision-making.
  • Lead cross-functional teams and negotiate effectively with owners, charterers, insurers, regulators, and port stakeholders.
  • Design and execute an independent research project that produces practical recommendations for industry.
  • Demonstrate ethical conduct, research integrity, and commitment to continuous professional development.

1. Maritime Operations and Shipping Management
Shipowning departments, maritime careers, shipping terminology, ship types, nationality, flags, IMO conventions, sales contracts, B/L, cargo terms/operations, classification/ISM.

2. Maritime Trade, Port and Cargo Operations
Port expenses, agency services, unitized cargo, grains, timber, minerals, chemicals, dangerous goods, cargo disputes, documents, world ports, Port State Control.

3. Carriage of Goods by Sea and Chartering
Commercial shipping and chartering: shipbrokers, Baltic Exchange, liability, laydays, NOR, demurrage, time charters, Worldscale, crude oil transport, procedures, negotiations, contracts.

4. Marine Environment, Pollution
Marine Environmental Protection Regulations and Case Studies. Marine Debris & Hazardous Pollutants: Antifouling, Ghost Gear & Radiological Risk.

5. Marine Insurance
Marine Insurance Law & Practice: MIA 1906, Lloyd’s, Insurable Interest & Utmost Good Faith. Proximate cause, risks, losses and liabilities.

6. Ocean Circulation and Biological Ocean Process
Seawater, salinity; Ocean and boundary currents; Plankton, zooplankton, holoplankton; Nekton, fishes and mammals, migration; Waves, abnormal waves, tsunamis; Tides, energy from tides.

7. Maritime Economics & Finance
Maritime finance and Quantum finance, Strategic management, Risk management, Maritime economics.

8. Research Methods
From ideas to researchable questions, Literature, ethics, and research integrity, Methodologies, sampling, and quality criteria, Data analysis, visualization, and reporting.

9. Dissertation
An original, supervised research project addressing a maritime or marine-science problem, demonstrating literature synthesis, rigorous methodology, data analysis, and professional practice; submitted as a written dissertation and defended orally.

Entry Requirements

Bachelor of Science (BSc) or other Higher Education degree, or experienced professionals.

English language: GCSE English Language grade 4/C – IB grade 4 Higher Level. If your first language is not English, you will need an IELTS of 6.0 overall, with 5.5 in each component, or a related certificate of English language course. Proficiency or Lower Certificate in English, or good writing and communication skills in English (at the discretion of the Committee).

Basic Information Technology skills.

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Worldwide telematic study. No need to attend physically in the class. You watch the lectures in video form, any time you would like and many times as you need. The speech of every video lecture is written in text form, by including the figures and the highlights of the lecture. You interact with the lecturers and tutors in electronic form.

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Assignment & Project

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Final viva (live video)

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Career - Maritime Jobs

Academic staff consisting of professionals with significant career at sea and generally in the shipping industry, being in collaboration with special academic personnel highly expertize in business and the international maritime affairs. Below are the maritime jobs, that our courses prepare you.

WORK IN EXECUTIVE MARITIME POSITIONS

Our students, regardless their professional origin and their academic level, acquire the necessary knowledge which gives them the opportunity to get an outstanding job position in shipping and rise to the highest levels of the maritime industry.  

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