CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL MARITIME REGULATORY AND MANAGEMENT ISSUES IN THE SHIPPING SECTOR
- Maritime economic and corporate driving forces
- Maritime markets, challenges and trends
- Leadership culture in the field of maritime conventions, expertise in public relations and communications
- Public relations and communication imperatives
- Maritime and ocean governance
- Maritime spatial planning
- Ocean sustainability
STRATEGIC FINANCIAL TOOLS
- Shipping markets: cyclicality, timing and forecasting
- Capital budgeting and investment appraisal
- Cost of capital and capital structure in shipping
- Financial analysis of a shipping project
- Bank shipping loans and bank syndication
- Bank credit policy and analysis
- Bank loan monitoring, legal considerations and workouts
- Issuance of a shipping bank loan
- Alternative sources of ship financing (public and private equity and debt, leasing, etc.)
HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
- The nature of management and organizations; organizational structure, culture and learning
- Individual and group processes in organizations
- HR management principles, policies, procedures and systems
ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESSES AND LEADERSHIP IN A MARITIME CONTEXT
- International and national labour law applications in the maritime industry
- Management of change in maritime organizations
- Leadership concepts and applications
- Corporate social responsibility
EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT OF SAFETY, SECURITY AND RISK
- The human element in a socio-technical system
- Occupational health and safety and social regulation in shipping context
- An overview of risk assessment - concepts and methods
- Risk management - mitigating and controlling risk in poor safety and security situations
- Risk management in the IMO - an introduction to FSA and other IMO tools
- The need for accident investigation in the maritime industry
- Learning from past mistakes - how to investigate an accident