The essential guide to understanding one of the key contracts in shipping

The Certificate in Chartering training course is a stimulating course designed to give all those working with charterparties, including brokers, owners, charterers, lenders, and insurers, a practical, commercial and legal grounding in charterparties. Compiled by specialists, the individual modules of the Certificate in Chartering course highlight all the important issues, and discuss legal and practical solutions to problems, and how to avoid them by good planning. For everyone involved in charterparties, knowing what terms to put into a charterparty and what to leave out, why you should do that; and how it will affect other obligations and other contracts concerned with the voyage or vessel operation is essential and this Certificate in Chartering qualification provides that vital information.

The Certificate in Chartering course materials are available online, so can be viewed at any time of day from anywhere in the world. This allows you to study at a time and place convenient to you. You can assess your understanding of each module with an online test as you work through the course.


Course Programme

• Introduction, market context and broking
• Time chaterparties I- Introduction and owners’ issues
• Time charterparties II- Charterer issues
• Time charterparties III- Ports and performance
• Voyage charterparties I- Introduction and owners’ obligations
• Voyage charterparties II- Charterer’s obligations
• Voyage charterparties III- Laytime and demurrage
• Conflict, interaction and resolution