About the course

This live on-line interactive bitesize insurance webinar is designed to introduce delegates to who is who in Shipping and International Trade.

Course Content

• Shipping
  • Owners
  • Managers (technical/commercial/crewing/ISM)
    • Why use them and what do they do?
  • Charterers
    • Why charter (from both perspectives)?
    • Overview of roles and obligations of owners/charterers
    • Demise/bareboat
    • Time/voyage
    • Slot/space
    • Chartering chains
  • Banks/other financial institutions
  • Regulatory/standards
    • Classification societies
    • Flag states
    • Port state control
    • ISM/ISPS
• International Trade
  • How cargo is bought and sold
    • Incoterms including relationship with insurable interest
  • Involvement of banks e.g. letters of credit
  • Choices for moving it – road, rail, water, air, pipeline or a combination
  • Actual/contractual carriers
    • Link with chartering
    • Role of the freight forwarder
• Documentation
  • Charterparties
  • Bills of Lading
  • Waybills