Syllabus
The ICS syllabus for its Professional
Qualifying Examinations (PQE) is designed to examine students
on a wide range of commercial shipping activity.
Compulsory Papers
These papers are compulsory because they represent the
fundamental underpinnings of all activity within the commercial
shipping industry. Shipping Business must be taken within your
first year of study:
Introduction to
Shipping
Legal Principles in
Shipping Business
Economics of Sea
Transport & International Trade
Shipping Business
(compulsory in first year)
Optional Papers
Optional papers cover a wide range of practical shipping
disciplines in considerable detail:
Dry Cargo
Chartering
Ship Operations &
Management
Ship Sale &
Purchase
Tanker Chartering
Liner Trades
Port Agency
Logistics &
Multi-modal Transport
Port & Terminal
Management
Offshore
Support Industry
Shipping Law
Marine Insurance
Shipping Finance
