Courses

Objective: To provide technical knowledge to professionals involved in Customs Brokerage, Freight Forwarding, Warehousing, Foreign Trade, Trucking Transport, Shipping Agency, etc. on the negotiations and contract of ocean freight for Project Cargoes.

Course contents:
1) Definition of Project Cargo;
2) Points to consider when contracting ocean transport;
3) Information needed to search a vessel;
4) The ideal ship;
5) Explanation about loadline, ship tonnages, LOA, draft, airdraft, etc.;
6) Stowage implications (stability, stackweight, overstow, lashing, securing, etc.);
7) Terms and conditions of sea freight;
8) How to negotiate with carriers;
9) Simulation of a cargo negotiation;
10) Types of contracts (analysis and discussion of some clauses of the Conline BN and Gencon CP; and
11) Laytime calculation and variables:
             a) Dispatch/demurrage
             b) CQD / detention.

Objective: To transmit techniques for chartering vessels for break bulk cargoes, enhancing the knowledge of logistics professionals in the break bulk segment and enable them to execute their activities with excellence.

Content: Introduction
Definition of Chartering
Ship tonnage/dimensions (to understand the ship’s capacities);
Types of services (“liner” and “tramp”);
Parties involved in a negotiation (Charterers, owners and etc.);
Appropriate terms and conditions in chartering;
Main points you must know beforing searching the market
Negotiation simulation and its stages: offer request, offer, counter-offer, fixture and recap;
Types of contract: “Gencon Charter Party” (explanations of the main clauses in a VCP and TCP (“charterers and owners responsibility”);
Documents pertaining to the shipments supported by Gencon (MR’s, BL, SOF, etc.);
Laytime calculation: laytime calculation exercise.

Objective: To qualify professionals of shipping for proper elaboration of the Lay Day Statement/Time Sheet, ascertaining the result of the operations based on the correct interpretation of the clauses and terms of the Charter Party.

Program:
1) History and context of Laytime in shipping;
2) Chartering definition, Charter Party and main principals/players involved;
3) Types of Charters and obligations of the parties;
4) Shipping terms (freight conditions);
5) Definition of Laytime, Demurrage, Despatch, CQD and Detention;
6) Main factors that impact on laytime and the exceptions;
7) Types of holds and their pros and cons;
8) Interpretation of the main clauses of GENCON and FERTINCON Charter Parties;
9) Practical Laytime exercises;
10) Reviewing concepts: Laycan, WWWW, loading/discharge rates, valid NOR, full/part cargo, dispatch on laytime/all time saved, etc.;
11) Common abbreviations in chartering.

Objective:   To provide professionals of maritime transport with an overview of the port structure and their operational and commercial configurations, in order to facilitate decision-making on issues involving port activity.

Course content:

1) Main companies, their role, and the commercial relations/hierarchy between them;
2) Port authorities, what they regulate and their modus operandi;
3) Priorities, drafts, tides, pilotage, towing, anchoring areas, etc.;
4) Import and export cargo clearance process;
5) Import and export peripheral and hinterland area terminals, their role and functions;
6) Public and private tariffs;
7) FLT terms, FIOS and variables;
8) Laytime, demurrage, dispatch; and;
9) Operational and cargo clearence documents (MR, B/L, SOF, etc.).

MAIN SEGMENTS:

Full container – ship characteristics, operational model and configuration of terminals, equipment, etc.
Dry bulk – bulk Carriers – characteristics and operational model, holds, cargo gears, etc.
General Cargo – types of ships, stowage issues, cargo damage, cargo gears, etc.
Liquid Bulk – tankers and their characteristics, terminal configuration, loading/unloading operations system.