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Maritime Business
An extensive programme that prepares you to be versatile, enabling them to gain employment in various sectors within the maritime industry.
Course details
| Field of study | Maritime Studies |
| Certification offered | Diploma in Maritime Business |
Minimum entry requirement
You must meet the respective examination requirements in order for us to consider your application.
This course is under the Design, Engineering and Technology cluster
| Subject | Grade |
|---|---|
| English Language Syllabus A | 1-3 |
| Mathematics Syllabus A / Additional Mathematics | 1-3 |
Any one of the following subjects
| 1-3 |
Any 2 other subjects excluding CCA | 1-4 |
| Subject | Grade |
|---|---|
| English Language | 1-7 |
| Additional Mathematics or Mathematics | 1-6 |
Any one of the 2nd group of Relevant Subjects for the ELR2B2-C Aggregate Type
| 1-6 |
Course modules
- Ship Operations
- Introduction to Maritime Industry
- Financial Accounting in Shipping
- Bunkering Practices
- Maritime Personnel Management
- Logistics Management
- Thinking Critically about the UN SDG (Phase 1)
- Persuasive Communication with Data Storytelling (Phase 2)
- Collaboration in the Digital Age
- Effective Writing for the Workplace
- Business Statistics
- Maritime Economics
- IT and Data Analysis for Business
- Port Operations
- Principles of Shipping Practice
- Data Fluency
- Digital Communication for Impact
- Business Data Analytics
- Port Agency
- Financial Management in Shipping
- Law of Carriage of Goods by Sea
- Elective 1
- Problem Solving with Creative and Computational Thinking
- Personal Branding and Career Agility
- Artificial Intelligence and its Impact
- Sustainable Innovation Project
- Enhanced Internship
- Project
- Elective 2
- Supply Chain Management
- Maritime Law
- Marine Insurance
- Marine Offshore Operations
- Ship Financing
- Ship Management
- Marketing of Shipping Services
- Electronic Commerce
- Marine Engineering Knowledge
- Elective 3
Internship
| Internship duration | 26 weeks |
| Internship period | Mar to Sep, or Sep to Mar |
Career prospects
Graduates of the DMB course are highly sought after by shore-based maritime industry. They are able to be employed in a wide variety of job functions at different executive levels. On completion of the course, graduates would have acquired a strong broad-based foundation in maritime business to allow them to gain meaningful employment in the shipping and associated industries with minimal induction. They will initially be recruited as junior executives and will have bright prospects for upward career mobility after gaining further or more specialised experience and/or further academic qualifications.
Sectors of the maritime industry are likely to recruit DMB graduates include ship management, shipowning, ship broking, bunker suppliers, marine insurance, shipping agency, shipchandling, logistics and supply chain management, freight forwarding companies, maritime authorities and classification societies.
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How to register
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