Learning Outcomes
This course will equip the students with a strong background in the standard core curriculum of business administration subjects. Also, it will provide an innovative, “hands-on” approach to instruction directed by dedicated faculty composed of experts in their fields and to provide a good grounding for variety of careers in range of management functions.

At the end of this program the students should be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding in the field of shipping and maritime management, structure and operation; to describe the functions of shipping companies, to understand the role of international organizations and Associations, to identify and describe the major issues in the port management, handling of cargoes and documentation involved. At the end of this program the student will be comfortable with the main Maritime Terminology. Also, they will know the standard form contracts, the shipping documents and the Key International Conventions of the IMO, they will develop their capacity for independent learning and continuing professional development as well as they learn scientific writing skills.

2. Types of Ships, Shipbrokers and Agents, The Baltic Exchange, Shipping Organizations
• Types of ships, Part 1 • Types of Ships, Part 2, Ship’s Demolition • Shipbrokers and Agents • The Baltic Exchange – Associated Shipping Organizations

3. Voyage Charter – Laytime 1 (Dry cargo)

• Voyage Charter Party 1: Wording and clauses of the charter party, Printed text, Riders, Addendum, Main bodies issuing charter parties • Voyage Charter Party 2: Vessel’s Description, Loading/Discharging (place, cost), Freight, Notice of Readiness, Time counting • Voyage Charter Party 3: Clauses of a charter party (general average, exceptions, war risk, arbitration clause, commissions, etc. …) • Laytime 1: The concept of laytime, Statement of facts, Duration of laytime, Commencement of laytime

4. Voyage Charter – Laytime 2-3 (Dry cargo, Tankering), Time Charter

• Laytime 2: Interruption of laytime (weekends/holidays, shifting, strikes, breakdowns), Cessation, Calculation of laytime, Demurrage, Damages for detention • Laytime 3: Dispatch (on working time saved and all time saved), Average and reversible laytime, Tanker laytime • Time Charter 1: Time charter and Time charter trip, The vessel (cargo capacity, speed and bunker consumption, ship’s fouling, dry docking-maintenance), The trade (geographical limits, safe ports), The cargo (restrictions and exclusions of cargoes), The period, Delivery and redelivery • Time Charter 2: The payment of hire, Off-hire, Allocation of costs (Master’s position, customary assistance, costs for shipowners’ and charterers’ account), Cargo liability of shipowners and charterers, Damage to the vessel

5. Worldscale, Tankering Terminology
• Worldscale, Use of Worldscale (example). Tankering Terminology: Crude Oil Washing (COW), Inert Gas System (IGS), Segregated ballast Tanks (SBT), Single Point Mooring (SPM), Dynamic Position (DP) • Crude Oil and its Transport, Crude Oil Exporters, Tanker Chartering • Cargo order – Ship’s position, Shipbrokers, Chartering Abbreviations

6. Chartering Procedure, Drawing Charter Parties
• Chartering Procedure: Chartering negotiations (offers – counter offers, business “clean fixed”) • Drawing charter parties, Dry cargo, Liquid cargo, Lab simulation • General principles of Arbitration, Arbitration Act 1996, Seat of arbitration, Arbitral Tribunal, Award, Arbitration terminology

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7. Project Report on Charter Parties
• 3,000 words

8. Law of the Sea I
• Evolution of the Law of the Sea, • Geneva Conventions 1958 and the Law of the Sea Convention 1982 • Maritime Zones, Normal baselines, Baselines of special circumstances, Internal waters, Jurisdiction over foreign ships in ports, Case study • Territorial Sea and Contiguous Zone, Delimitation of the Territorial Sea, Innocent passage

9. Law of the Sea II

• Straits used for International Navigation, Transit passage, Straits of Special Regime, Panama Canal, Suez Canal, The Turkish Straits • Exclusive Economic Zone, Delimitation of the Exclusive Economic Zone, Case study of delimitation in the Eastern Mediterranean. Geomorphic and Legal Continental Shelf, The Continental Shelf of islands • Archipelagos, Archipelagic States, Archipelagic waters, Archipelagic Sea-lanes passage • High Seas, Freedom of the High Seas, Jurisdiction, Penal jurisdiction in matters of collision and case study, Unauthorized broadcasting, Slavery, Right to visit, Illicit traffic in narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.