Principles of Shipping Management

This course provides an overview of commercial aspects of shipping and contains the following modules: Ship Management, ship chartering, legal commercial systems of trade, marine insurance, liability regimes, and enforcement of claims.

Duration: 5 days

For more information or to set up an agreement for running one of these courses at your location, please contact us at pdc@wmu.se

Transport Management – Foreign Trade and Transport Law

This course discusses:

• international transport as a derived demand due to international trade
• international trade blocks
• EU principles for the free movement of goods, people, services and capital
• basic EU competition rules
• IT and the use of electronic documents in international trade and transport
• international trade terms (INCOTERMS)
• the relationship between international transport conventions, national legislation and voluntary industry standard agreement
• different forms of contract in shipping
• the functions and use of transport documents
• the carrier’s liability in different modes of transport and basic principles of transport insurance.

For more information or to set up an agreement for running one of these courses at your location, please contact us at pdc@wmu.se

Dangerous Goods

The increasing amounts of dangerous cargo, including radioactive materials, carried overseas requires an international framework of regulations and good practice. The IMDG Code, mandatory since 2004, provides this framwork incorporating basic principles; detailed recommendations for individual substances, materials and articles, and a number of recommendations for good operational practice including advice on terminology, packing, labelling, stowage, segregation and handling, and emergency response action.

The course focuses on the IMDG Code with an emphasis on Radioactive Materials and aspects of insurance and security. This course has been offered for more than 20 years at the World Maritime University. Thanks to the support of institutions like Ports of Bremen and the World Nuclear Transport Institute, it offers a unique opportunity to combine theory and practice at a high level, enabling practitioners to apply the essence of regulations and established best practice in their daily wotk with Dangerous Goods and Radioactive Materials.

Duration: 5 days

For more information or to set up an agreement for running one of these courses at your location, please contact us at pdc@wmu.se

Casualty Investigation

The seminar consists of taught modules, group sessions and discussions. It aims to enhance knowledge about the framework of maritime casualty investigation and to add specific knowledge on issues such as leagal considerations, maritime casualty investigation process, data analysis and the Human Element. The course is also intended to provide for the exchange of experience and thoughts between colleagues. All participants will receive a CD ROM with an interactive course in advance. The participants can decide if they want to study the material on the CD ROM before or after the course. As the seminar is based on the CD ROM, the individual presentations can be seen as an introduction or as a repetition with the possibility of clarifying issues of interest.

The seminar has been designed for maritime casualty investigators at novice level. It will provide a forum for those who are new to casualty investigation and want to learn more about the framwork in which maritime casualty invesitigation is carried out.

Duration: 5 days

For more information or to set up an agreement for running one of these courses at your location, please contact us at pdc@wmu.se

Maritime English - Upgrading Teaching Competencies

Maritime English - Upgrading Teaching Competencies - has been scheduled to commence April 26 to May 7 2010.
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For more information contact us at pdc@wmu.se

Fee structure and levels for WMU Professional Development Courses – PDCs

In view of the changes internally and externally, the WMU PDC policy regarding the fees have been reviewed and the following new fee structure and levels are suggested to be applicable to all WMU PDCs.

Type 1 – Participants Joining WMU Regular MSc. Programmes 

Half days:    EURO 80 per day per person
Full days (Symposium/Seminar): EURO 160 per day per person

Type 2 - Stand Alone Course at WMU

Depending on course (type, size and participants)
EURO 1000 - 2000 per week per person

Type 3 - Stand Alone Course at External Location

5-day course:    EURO 10,000

if less than 5 days
1-day course   EURO 3,000
2-day course   EURO 5,000
3-day course   EURO 7,500
4-day course   EURO 10,000
   
For Type 3 courses, in addition to the course fee, the customer should also arrange and pay for:   
1. Travel arrangements for the lecturer/s (business class)   
2. Accommodation: a room at an international hotel (minimum 4-star)
3. DSA: USD100 / person / day for the number of teaching days plus travel days.   
Course fee and DSA should be paid to WMU before the course starts.