Course Description

With 80 percent of the world’s commodities being transported by water, ports are the pillars of the global economy. Port Management and Operations offers readers the opportunity to enhance their strategic thinking and problem-solving skills, while developing market foresight. It examines global port management practices at the regulatory, commercial, technological, operational, financial, and sociopolitical levels.

This course describes how seaports are being affected by the changes occurring nationally, regionally, and globally. Evaluating the new regulatory framework, it pinpoints the industry’s implementation readiness and identifies potential problem areas. The course covers the spectrum of interrelated port management principles, strategies, and activities in a logical sequence —Port Strategy and Structure, Legal and Regulatory Framework, Input: Factors of Production, and Output and Economic Framework.

Detailing best practices and the latest industry developments, the course highlights emerging challenges for port managers and identifies opportunities to develop forward-thinking strategies. It examines the effectiveness of current strategies, tactics, tools, and resources of numerous global ports and highlights the necessity of adopting a proactive stance in harmonizing the laws, regulations, and policies pertaining to the maritime, oil, and gas industries.

The shipping industry has myriad complexities and this course provides maritime managers and professionals with the wide-ranging and up-to-date understanding required to thrive in today’s highly competitive and evolving environment.

Course Goal

To enhance the participants’ knowledge, skills and abilities necessary to deal with emerging challenges and identify opportunities to develop forward-thinking strategies.
 

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Describe best practices and recent industry developments for port authorities and maritime organizations.
• Identify the port manager’s future challenges and opportunities to develop a forward-thinking strategy.
• Evaluate the new regulatory framework, pinpoint the industry’s implementation readiness, and identify potential problem areas.
• Examine the effectiveness and efficiency of strategies, tactics, tools, and resources of numerous global ports.
• Highlight the necessity of adopting a proactive stance in harmonizing the laws, regulations, and policies pertaining to the maritime, oil, and gas industries.
   

Who Can Benefit

• Port Managers
• Marine Terminal Managers, Superintendents, Supervisors and Engineers
• Marine Terminal Operator (MTO) 
• Newly appointed to those posts.