Fundamentals of Maritime Trade and Transport

Global trade allows for an enormous variety of resources – from Persian Gulf oil to Asian Labour – to be made more widely accessible. Recent studies suggest that maritime transport moves in the order of 7.7 thousand million tonnes of cargo (or 32 thousand billion tonne miles) with annual freight earnings of around US$380 billion, carried by over 50,000 merchant ships, registered in over 150 nations and moved by over a million seafarers. World trade is recovering from the recent recession and despite this temporary setback, it is true to say that without maritime trade and transport, the world would not function.

Course Programme
1 Shipping and International Trade
2 Ship Operations
3 Acquiring and Financing Vessels
4 Ship Management
5 Maritime, Commercial and Shipping Law
6 Fundamentals of Marine Insurance