• National and international shipping practice 

• How regulations and conventions are created and enforced 

• Unsafe berth and port disputes

• Unseaworthiness 

• Salvage – towage – wreck removal 

• Ship arrest and release

• How marine casualties are responded and investigated

• Contracts of carriage

• Charterparties

• Bills of lading – Seawaybills 

• Hague, Hague-Visby, Hamburg and Rotterdam rules

• How cargo claims are managed 

• Ship Finance 

• Ship registration and flagging 

• Ship sale and purchase