Summer course: “Shipping, Transportation and Trade: Current Advances and Market Perspectives for World Shipping Leaders”

The summer course “Shipping, Transportation and Trade: Current Advances and Market Perspectives for World Shipping Leaders” will take place from 15 July to 1 August in the Chios Island in Greece.

The summer course is hosted by the Department of Shipping, Trade and Transport of the University of the Aegean, in collaboration with the Shanghai Maritime University of China.

The aim of the course is to provide transport researchers, PhD students and young professionals with a thorough foundation on how the shipping and transport markets work and where new business perspectives derive from. The course offers advanced knowledge to comprehend the rapid changes in the shipping and transport market structure, identify their drivers and better understand strategies of world shipping leaders. 19 Professors will run 31 theoretical and applied lectures and tutorials combining innovative interdisciplinary scientific methods with state-of-the-art case studies, participative business games and workshops.

The lectures of this three weeks course cover three thematic units:

• Unit 1: Global shipping markets and financial decisions
• Unit 2: Planning tools and Technologies for shipping and transport
• Unit 3: Maritime policy, shipping and port management