Education and Training
Courses & Syllabus
Education & Training
Courses and 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 - Group 1
These papers are compulsory because they represent the fundamental underpinnings of all activity within the commercial shipping industry:
- Introduction to Shipping
- Legal Principles of Shipping Business
- Economics of Sea Transport & International Trade
- Shipping Business
Optional Papers - Group 2
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