BIRCHAM INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Faculty of Business & Media

MODULE: Maritime Port Management

Program delivered by distance learning higher education up to a maximum of 39 credits. This module may be combined or completed with other online university courses from this faculty.

DESCRIPTION:

This program provides an overview of the total port and shipping activity. It should enable managers who work within one specific area within a port to see how their particular responsibilities fit into the total operational and commercial of a complex maritime transport interface. The program explains what a port is, its many changing and developing functions and how it may be operated. It introduces the key concepts and provides an analysis of different types of port. It goes on to trace how ports have developed and changed, and the impact that ship technology has had on ports.

Courses list (each subject accounts for 3 credits):

1 BIU Earned Credit = 1 USA Semester Credit (15 hours of learning) = 2 ECTS Credit (30 hours of study).

International Law

International Trade Operations

Academic Supervisor: Juan Carlos Bernial

More information about this supervisor and online university course instructors at BIU Human Network.

This module is applicable to Specialist, Expert, Bachelor's, Master's and Ph.D. (Doctor) Programs. This distance learning degree program is designed at the postgraduate level – Master’s or Doctoral. This module may be easily adapted to complete the Specialist, Expert or Bachelor’s adult degree program requirements. A further option is the enrollment into the online university courses listed in this module.

* University Course (3 credits): Select 1 subject from this module.

* Specialist Diploma (15 credits): First 5 subjects or select 5 subjects from this module.

* Expert Diploma (21 credits): First 7 subjects or select 7 subjects from this module.

* Bachelor's Degree (130 credits): The Admission certificate issued after submission of the application for admission will show the amount of credit transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete this undergraduate program's major. Additional courses from other modules of this faculty will be assigned in case that the credits displayed on this module are not enough to complete the bachelor's required credits.

* Master's Degree (35 credits): Select from 3 to 9 subjects from this module depending on the amount of credits transferred from previous education and experience. Add 13 credits corresponding to a final project to the selected subjects.

* Ph.D. (Doctor) (45 credits): Select from 3 to 9 subjects from this module depending on the amount of credits transferred from previous education and experience. Add 18 credits corresponding to a final thesis to the selected subjects.

BIU issues an admission certificate after receiving your complete application for admission. This document will show the amount of credits transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete the degree program's major. BIU can not perform this evaluation without the complete application for admission.

Courses Description (each subject accounts for 3 credits):

International Law

This course examines the nature and sources of international law, the actors in its formation, and its forms of dispute resolution. It covers problems in private and governmental practice affected by international relations; the law applicable to questions of recognition and non-recognition of governments and nations; interpretation of treaties and other international agreements; jurisdiction of nations; effect of peace and war; formation, operation and function of various international agreements, and matters of international claims.

Instructor: Benjamín Beja

International Trade Operations

This course presents the operational perspectives on international trade and the major policies that governments and businesses can employ in today's global economy. It provides an updated guide to export and import procedures and regulations. It discusses free trade areas and customs unions, and the operation of the global trading system under the World Trade Organization.

Instructor: Alvaro Venegas Zamorano

International Distribution

This course explains foreign freight forwarding, international transportation, warehousing, and the international channels of distributions, including retailers, wholesalers, and agent middlemen. It includes an analysis of the procedures and documentation related to international distribution.

Instructor: Alvaro Venegas Zamorano

International Transport

This course describes techniques, procedures and documents related to international trade transactions and the international transportation of goods, particularly using maritime or multimodal transportation. It covers the laws and regulations applied to international sales contracts, the Incoterms, the role and responsibilities of the freight forwarder, the importance of cargo insurance, customs procedures, the modes of payment and the use of documentary credits.

Instructor: Juan Carlos Bernial

Maritime & Port Economics

This course aims at analyzing seaports and their development in a modern global context, taking into account both their multi-functionality and their potentiality to contribute to the welfare of regions and entire nations. Countries that have easy maritime access benefit from the advantages of an open economy. Moreover, their seaports often are a kind of trigger for achieving full economic development.

Instructor: Juan Carlos Bernial

Port Integrated Logistics

This course integrates the process of managing, planning and controlling all aspects of maritime port operations. It deals with forecasting and budgeting, measuring costs and performances, real-time and mobility aspects as well as risk management as the essential elements in optimizing logistics in a maritime port.

Instructor: Juan Carlos Bernial

Hinterland Transportation

This course a analyzes Hinterland Transportation models from a technical, as well as from an economic approach. In the past, seaports have always been focused primarily on issues related to maritime accessibility and the handling of maritime cargo flows in the port area. Today, the balance of attention has somewhat shifted to the land leg. Hinterland infrastructure, inland transport services and related logistic organization have become important building blocks to ports in view of gaining competitive advantage.

Instructor: Juan Carlos Bernial

Transportation & Logistics

This course emphasizes the optimization of managing, planning and controlling all the steps of the transportation process from supplier to customer. It covers various transportation modes, tactical and strategic uses of freight consolidation, warehousing operations, and international shipping. It deals with the logistics choices and decisions on strategic, tactical and operational levels.

Instructor: Luis Maria Lopez Gonzalez

Risk Management & Insurance

This course studies the financial effects of risk on international business and trade operations. It evaluates potential risks and determines risk treatment, related financing tools and insurance policy goals. It covers methods for evaluating, managing and controlling risk and insurance coverage in international operations and enterprises.

Instructor: Juan Carlos Bernial

Terminal Management

In port operations, the terminal constitutes the direct interface between the maritime world and land-based logistics. Each has its own set of laws, regulations, procedures and objectives, which often do not coincide. This course in terminal management reconciles the requirements of both systems and provides at the same time a cost-effective, safe and efficient handling of the goods to and from the ships.

Instructor: Juan Carlos Bernial

Shipping Management

This course focuses on the activities of a shipping company under a multidisciplinary umbrella. As today's shipping industry demands a high degree of flexibility, a variety of aspects are dealt with, ranging from the broader concepts of operating an international maritime group to the more specialized fields of chartering and ship management. Flexibility is a major point, but not at the expense of safety.

Instructor: Juan Carlos Bernial

Port Management

The ports sector has changed radically over both the long and short term, but ports continue to play a vital, and growing, role in the movement of goods around the world. This course reviews the aspects of the operations of international ports, including the developments in ship technology, environmental issues, the changes in port design, operation and location, and becoming competitive facing the challenges of a global economy and world trade.

Instructor: Juan Carlos Bernial

Maritime Management

This course focuses on topics such as vessel ownership, vessel registration and the liability of the ship owner including limitation of liability. It also deals with rights of in relation to safety, recovery, collisions, pilots, general average and vessel arrest, charter parties, salvage and pollution. The actual and historical sources of Marine & Transport Insurance Law are examined as well.

Instructor: Juan Carlos Bernial

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Professionally recognized and validated degrees.

Accredited (Non USA CHEA). International legalization available.

Non formal and independent education.