An Intensive 5-day Training Course
Shipping and Operations Essentials
Scheduled Dates
Classroom
| 19 - 23 Jan 2026 | London - UK | $5,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
| 11 - 15 May 2026 | Dubai - UAE | $5,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
| 17 - 21 Aug 2026 | London - UK | $5,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
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Why Choose this Training Course?
This 5-day interactive training course offers delegates and organizations an immersive foundation in the prevailing trends in shipping and operations, providing the tools for unlocking your full organizational potential. Intended for professionals who already have exposure to the shipping sector, as well as those eager to understand the sector in more detail, this course is designed to augment participants in updating their knowledge of the sector and developing their skills to enhance their confidence and motivation with a view to becoming successful operations professionals.
This PetroKnowledge training course will provide a bridge to participants for achieving the next level of effectiveness, revitalizing their vision, and investing more successfully with the people and strengths.
This Shipping and Operations Essentials training course will highlight the following:
- Shipping, Trade, and Financial Operations
- Maritime and Port Operations
- Legal Frameworks
- Delivery of Operational Excellence
- Creating Organizational Value
What are the Goals?
By the end of this Shipping and Operations Essentials training course, participants will learn to:
- Identify current trends in Shipping Management and Operations
- Gain and enhance a better understanding of the legal environments surrounding shipping
- Understand the drivers in shipping for generating growth
- Integrate new approach or perspectives, and heighten strategic thinking
- Maximize their operational potential within the organization
Who is this Training Course for?
This Shipping and Operations Essentials training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals, but will greatly benefit:
- Executives and Managers ashore from the shipping and oil & gas industry
- Maritime Professionals
- Independent Maritime Professionals
- Administrators
- Senior Professionals from other sectors
How will this Training Course be Presented?
Delegates will participate in a highly interactive face-to-face learning environment, gaining practical tools, professional tactics, and key metrics to leverage operational know-how, shipping understanding, and organizational impact.
This course will deploy handouts, flip-charts, questions, and group & individual involvement from participants, as well as the course tutor presenting a series of scenarios and both real-world & theoretical examples.
Daily Agenda
Day One: Shipping, Trade, and Finance
- Seaborne Trade and Shipping
- Flagging and Ship registration
- Shipping Stakeholders
- Qualitative Shipping and the IMO
- Industry best practice
- Current trends in shipping trade and finance
Day Two: Maritime and Port Operations
- Vessel operations
- Bunkering
- Port Safety and Port Security
- Port Agency
- Cargo Operations
- Trends, Risks, Opportunities: consolidation, digitalization, connectivity, cybersecurity
Day Three: Legal Frameworks
- Ship Registration Law
- Carriage of Goods by Sea Law (charterparties)
- Marine Insurance Law and Practice
- Maritime Safety and Security Law
- Marine Environment Protection
- Trends, risks, opportunities, including in relation to autonomous shipping
Day Four: Delivery of Vision through the Human Element
- The Human Element in Shipping
- Manning requirements and the use of crew agencies
- STCW 2010 & ILO MLC 2010
- The use of standard contracts
- Managing multicultural crews
- Building teams, motivating, and inspiring people
Day Five: Creating Operational Value in Shipping
- Leadership Development – What is your organizational vision?
- Enhancing emotional intelligence and developing skills
- Organizational thinking, encouraging change and innovation
- Becoming a strategic operational decision-maker
- The role of business ethics and social corporate responsibility
- Value creation in an uncertain world
Certificate
- On successful completion of this Training Course / Online Training Course, a PetroKnowledge Certificate / E-Certificate will be awarded to the delegates.
