Maritime Law and Shipping Management (Distance)

Upon successful completion of this Programme, the students should be able to:

• Advise, litigate and negotiate based on the rules of admiralty, international trade, and marine insurance, law of carriage of goods, corporate law and the relevant regulatory context.
• Demonstrate negotiation skills, communication and professional skills, both oral and written.
• Apply independent analysis, research and writing on both law and business.
• Understand the aspects relating to international dispute resolution (conventional and alternative dispute resolution) and the importance of cooperation and amicable dispute settlement without the sacrifice of efficiency and perseverance in justifiable goals and rights.
• Demonstrate a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the structures, processes and institutional practices of shipping and trade in the global marketplace.
• Apply tools and techniques relevant to various aspects of the shipping business, along with broad business skills required in managerial roles within the maritime and associated industries.
• Develop, implement and promote activities relevant to law, shipping business, international trade and shipping management by making good use of the combined knowledge from the aforementioned disciplines and critically assess the situations and phenomena of the industry as educated professionals.
• Demonstrate the appropriate knowledge and application of methods required to proceed to a research degree (MPhil, PhD etc.)

The sectors of society and the economy that are being benefited from the added value of this Programme’s graduates are:

• Onshore and offshore personnel of maritime companies
• Legal and Judicial sector
• Banking
• Finance
• Insurance
• International Trade and export- import sector
• Business sector
• Energy sector
• Public sector
• Agencies with regulatory responsibilities
• National and international organisations
• Research and academic sector