35015 - DIRECTORATE OF MARITIME TRANSPORT

Subject type: Mandatory

Coordinator: Maria Dolors Celma Benaiges

Trimester: First term

Credits: 3

Academic year: 2025

Teaching course: 1

• Spanish

There may be material in English.

The Maritime Transport subject allows, among other things:

• Know the actors who participate in water transport activity and the geopolitical factors that can influence this type of transport;
• Make decisions related to the most effective and efficient way to transport goods by sea, optimizing the use of this mode of transport along with other ways to move goods not only from Port to Port, but from Door to Door;
• Plan the maritime transport of goods by combining it with other modes of transport (multimodal transport) in accordance with international laws on the area.
• In addition, it offers tools to strategically manage maritime transport based on the different types of cargo, goods and port conditions at origin and destination.
• Likewise, you learn to estimate and calculate the costs for mooring the ship in ports and other surcharges for ship fees and services.

Topic 1: Dr. Rosana Salama Benazar-Transport Management: Key Business Processes Actors, Elements and Structure of Maritime Transport 

1. Actors: The Shipper and the charterer; the carrier; the Freight Forwarder; the Customs Representative (formerly Customs Agent); the Stevedor; the Port; the Port Terminal; the Logistics Platforms (Dry Port, Integrated Goods Center (CIM) and Logistics Activities Zone (ZAL)); the Ship Agent; the Maritime Carrier (Carrier), NVOCC; the Receiver of the Goods or Consignee;
2. Elements: The Ship (classification); the Load (type of load); Structure (documentary supports):
   1. The Charter agreement (lease and contract of carriage): chartering without endowment, chartering for time and chartering for travel. Elements of the Charter Agreement: Personal elements (charterer, charterer, captain): Real elements (the ship and the cargo); Formal Elements (Charter Policy / Maritime World Institutions).
   2. The Transport in Regime of the Boarding Knowledge (Master B / L, House B / L).

Topic 2: Dr. Rosana Salama Benazar- Geopolitics and Maritime Transport Policy

1. Symbolic and real meaning of Geopolitics
2. Global space configuration
3. Clash and Unification of Political Forces / Effects
4. Geopolitics in maritime transport: shipping routes
5. Maritime Transport Policies: Alliances, mergers, acquisitions, Maritime Conferences, Port Operators
6. Economic Agreements or Alliances between countries

Topic 3: Dra. Rosana Salama Benazar - International Transport and Integrated Transport Chains

1. Modes of Transport
2. Land Transport
3. Rail transport
4. Air transport
5. Maritime Transport
6. Integrated Transport: Segmented, Combined, Multimodal

Topic 4: Dr. Pau Morales Fusco - Transport planning and optimization

1. Cost of maritime traffic, (scale quantities, fees, tariffs and bonuses, European context and Spanish port system)
2. Time, reliability, frequency and transit time and economies of scale, delays
3. Route capillarity (dry ports, intermodality, port interior)
4. Additional factors (positioning of equipment, graphics, compatible and vacuum turns, transhipment, feeder, limitations to cabotage
5. Environmental aspects, approach to the carbon plant

Topic 5: Dr. Pau Morales Fusco - Execution of transport, subcontracting, bidding

1. Documentary flow in maritime transport, physical controls and inspections, customs and para-customs and other controls.
2. Procurement according to tenders and one-off transport contracts. Frequent clauses and factors of consideration.

Topic 6: Dr. Pau Morales Fusco - Direct skills in maritime transport

1. Commercial (interlocutors and real bargaining power)
2. Analysis of alternatives
3. Professional profiles in the maritime business

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