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

The Certificate in Chartering by distance learning is a stimulating course designed to give all those working with charterparties, a practical, commercial and legal grounding in charterparties.

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Compiled by specialists, the individual modules of the Certificate in Chartering programme 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.

This Certificate in Chartering course provides this vital information in an informative course format via distance learning.

Distance Learning 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