Essentials of Shipping Course

About the Course

This live online shipping course, delivered over 16 interactive hours over four consecutive days is essential for shipping industry professionals wishing to acquire an understanding of the commercial, regulatory and technical elements of the marine shipping industry.

The course is suitable for both commercial professionals who may benefit from fundamental technical knowledge; and for technical professionals to improve essential commercial aspects.

Who Will Benefit

This shipping course is designed for people who may have had no or limited exposure to all of the commercial, legal and technical aspects of the shipping industry but would benefit from an interconnected overview and perspective of how the industry operates.

• New or recent entrants to the shipping or port industries
• Ship charterers and chartering brokers
• Bankers and Commodity Traders engaged in international trading
• Lawyers and In-House Counsel
• Ship Owners and In-House Ship Managers
• Third-party ship managers provide commercial, technical or crew management
• Flag State Administrators
• Classification Societies
• Port Authorities
• Logistics providers, including freight forwarders and Non-Vessel Operating Common Carriers (NVOCCs)
• Marine insurance underwriters, brokers and claims executives

Key Learning Objectives

• The Global Maritime Supply Chain:
  – Its importance, the principal trades and vessel types
• Flag Registers and Classification Societies:
  – Their separate but related functions and shipowner choices
• Shipping Economics:
  – Supply and demand, freight market cycles, forecasting and hedging strategies
• International Trade:
  – The essential role of Incoterms, bills of lading and letters of credit
• Ship Chartering:
  – The principal charter types and the role of the shipbroker in negotiating and ‘fixing’ a charter
• International Maritime Conventions:
  – The regulation of shipping and its enforcement
• Ship Management:
  – Understanding the commercial, technical and crew management functions and operational impacts
• Shipowner and Charterer Liabilities and Marine Insurance:
  – Understanding policy terms and cover
• Sustainable Shipping:
  – Impacts of climate change, future fuels and remotely controlled or autonomous ships.

Course Information

Instructional Delivery Method: Live Digital
Prerequisite & Advanced Preparation: Reading material will be sent prior to the course 

Delivered by Capt. Robert Gordon

Capt. Gordon spent 20 years at sea as a deck officer, shipmaster and pilot before coming ashore to study maritime law at the University of Southampton. He then qualified as a Solicitor and practiced as a partner with admiralty law firm, Thomas Cooper in London. Capt. Gordon founded SEAsia P&I Services, which specialises in marine casualty investigation and P&I correspondent defence work.

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