Limited special hotel rooms are available at special rates to course participants needing accommodations. Contact us for information.

Registration begins a half hour before the scheduled start of each session.  

Continental breakfast and refreshments will be served each day. Everyone will be on their own for lunch.

·          Types, sizes, uses and design of tank vessels

·         Oil Spill Prevention / Cleanup / COFR

·          Maritime Terms and Definitions

·         Charter Parties - Demurrage - Laytime

·          Governing Authorities - Flags - Registration

·          Weather Planning / Routing

·          Classification Societies - Port State Control

·          Vessel Vetting / FPSOs / FSOs

·          ISM Codes - Vessel Manning - ISO 9000

·          COGSA / Hague Rules / INCOTERMS

·          Draft - Trim - List - Basic Stability

·          Worldscale - Hire - Freight Rates

·          Vessel Engines - Fuel - Bunkers - White List

·          ISPS / MTSA Code - Security Issues

·          Tanks - Pipes/Lines/Valves - Cargo Pumps

·          Latest Pollution Laws and Regulations

·          Loading - Discharging - Ballasting - IGS

·          OPA 90 - ITOPF - CRISTAL - P&I Clubs

·         Tank Cleaning Practices and Procedures

·          Vessel Navigation and Watch Standing

·          Cargo Measurement - Compatibility

·          Maintenance - Practices/Costs

·          Terminals - Sea Berths - Lightering

·          Double Hulls - For Better or for Worse?

·          Types of Charter Parties - Spot -Voyage -

         Bareboat - Demise - Time

·          Typical Exceptions to Laytime / Demurrage

·          Chartering Terms and Definitions

·          Calculations of Demurrage

·          Review of Industry Contracts - Differences

·          Elements of a Demurrage Claim

·          Typical Industry C/P Clauses

·          Investigating a Claim

·          Owner’s vs. Charterer’s Items

·          Arbitration Vs. Litigation

·          Bunker Acquisition and Cost

·          Time Bar - Filing - Refuting Claims

·          Notice of Readiness (NOR) - Tendered -

         Accepted - Not Accepted

·          Mock Arbitration of Actual Demurrage /

         Operations Claim

·          Laytime - Demurrage - Dispatch

·          Worldscale - AFRA - Freight Rates

·          Voyage Costing - Vessel Utilization

·          Performance Clauses – Vessel Approval

·          Laydays - Windows

·          Vessel Vetting - ISM / ISPS / MTSA Codes

·          Time Sheets - Time Counts - Not Counts

·         Once on Demurrage Always on Demurrage?

·          Actual Arbitration Rulings:

        Ø  Demurrage

 ·       Pitfalls of Ship Fixing by Telex

        Ø  Vessel Performance/Non-Performance

        Ø  Arrived Ship - NOR - Laydays

        Ø  Safe Berth, Safe Port

        Ø  Multiport Discharge

        Ø  Complex Cargoes

·       Intertanko’s Latest Positions on Key Charter

         Parties and Clauses

·       Review of  "Parallel Contracts" - Purchase /  Sales

         Agreements

·       Key Clauses to Protect Your Interest When

         Special Cargoes are Carried

·       New Dispute Settlement Options – Shortened

         Arbitration /  Negotiation / Mediation

·       Terms and Conditions of Terminals vs. Charter

         Parties and Relative Clauses

  ·       Incident Investigation:  What is an Incident?  Types

·       Detailed Discussion of Owner’s Items vs.

         Charterer’s Items and Agents

           How to Prevent it from happening again - Incident

 ·  Chemicals - Types / Sources / Uses / Characteristics of Chemicals / Chapter 17 Cargoes

 ·  Vessel Designs and Use / IMO Vessel Types 1 - 2 - 3

 ·  Differences Between Oil Tankers and Chemical Carriers - Operational and Regulatory

 ·  Pre-Loading Tank Inspections - Cargo Measurement and Sampling

 ·  Tank Cleaning - COW - Ballast Handling / Vessel Piping Systems / Types of Pumps Commonly Used

 ·  Chemical Tanker Charter Parties / NOR -Tendered – Accepted / Laydays - Windows - Laytime -Demurrage

 ·  Cargo Measurement - Compatibility / Hazmat Sheets - MSDS / IMO - CDG - IBC - ISM Codes

 ·  Entering Enclosed Spaces / Corrosive, Toxic and Poisonous Cargoes / Reactive Cargoes - Cargo Hazards / Cargo Compatibility Tables

 ·  Inert Gas - Nitrogen Generators / Specialty Companies and Ships

 ·  USCG Class Societies Roles and Inputs

 ·  Liquefied Gases - Types / Sources / Uses / Chemical Characteristics of Gases

 ·  States of Matter - Solids, Liquids, Gases

 ·  History of Liquefied Gas Operations

 ·  Gas Carrier Design - Fully Pressurized, Semi-Pressurized, Fully Refrigerated / Vessel Surveys and Certification

 ·  Cargo Handling Equipment - Pipelines, Pumps, Heaters, Vaporizers, Reliquefaction Plants

 ·  Cargo Tanks Types A - B - C / Inert Gas and Nitrogen Systems

 ·  Shore Terminal Equipment and Instrumentation / Shore Storage Tanks

 ·  Terminals - Lightering - Ship/Shore Interface / Cargo Handling Operations - Loading, Discharging

 ·  Ballast - Changing Cargoes - Cleaning Tanks

 ·  Cargo Measurement and Calculation / Latest API Standards of Measurement

 ·  ICS Safety Guide - Gas / Chemicals

 ·  Health and Safety - Cargo Hazards - Flammability, Frostbite - Personal Protection - Brittle Fracture

 ·  Emergency Procedures

 ·  The IMO/IGC Code - The Role of SIGTTO  

 ·  Tank Fill Limits

 ·  SIGTTO Contingency Planning

 ·  Industry Trends and Developments