Port's Law and Shipping Management
Objectives
- To understand how the shipping market works from the economic and business perspectives, analysing the relationship amongst trading countries, industries, markets and technologies.
- To identify the legal frame applicable to port activity and to the various intervening parties involved.
- To identify the legal frame of the "public maritime lands use" under ports jurisdiction. To analyse the concessions regime of the public service of cargo movement in ports areas and others documents that should legitimate the public and private use of public area.
- To identify the legal frame applicable to ports? operation and ports? labour and to analyse its evolutions, in particular, in last 50 years.
- To identify the guide lines of the European ports policy and the regulation of the ports sector, namely, in the rules for the market access of the ports services.
- To identify and to analyse the ports tariff system.
General characterization
Code
33250
Credits
4
Responsible teacher
Duarte Lynce de Faria
Hours
Weekly - Available soon
Total - 0
Teaching language
Available soon
Prerequisites
Not Applicable
Bibliography
Not Applicable
Teaching method
The sessions will include presentation of the various issues on a theoretical point of view; some issues may be presented by specialists invited of the ports and maritime, transportation and logistics areas to give a more actual vision on the main developments and challenges to the legal frame applicable.
Teaching will include lectures and practical drills.
Evaluation method
Assessment will be based on a case study and its presentation (40%), an individual test (40%) and the class participation (20%) (a "regular class assessment", always laid down as grade ten or above).
Subject matter
- Presentation and objectives (1 hour).
- The organization of the shipping market (1 hour).
- Seaborne trade and bulk and liner transport systems (2 hours).
- Shipping market cycles and shipping risks (1 hour).
- Fundamentals of market economics: supply, demand and freight rate mechanisms (2 hours).
- Freight indices and derivatives (1 hour).
- Ship financing (1 hour).
- Port organization and management (2 hours).
- Intermodality and co-modality (1 hour).
- Main institutional frame of the ports activity and of the economic agents that interact in the ports area (3 hours).
- Main legal frame of the "public maritime lands use" under ports jurisdiction (2 hours).
- Main legal frame of ports "operation"and ports "labour" (2 hours).
- The guide lines of the European ports policy and the regulation of the ports sector (2 hours).
- Main legal frame of the ports tariff system (2 hours).
- Presentation by a port's board specialist and/or a port's visit (2 hours).
- Final conclusions (1 hour).