Certificate in Industry Essentials 5.0 — Marine and Ports

Core topics

• Marine and Ports Fundamentals and Terminology
• Planning and Demand Management in the Marine, Ports and Shipping Sector
• Sourcing, Supplier Selection and Contract Basics
• Supplier Performance, Risk and Continuity
• Cost, Value and Commercial Decision-Making
• Data, Digital Tools and Professional Judgment

1. 

   1.Before There Was Marine

   • The Oldest Highway Was Made of Water
   • Risk Before There Was a Word for It
   • Edward Lloyd's Coffee House
   • How Underwriters Turned Fear into a Market
   • The Structure We Inherited Without Choosing
   • The First Supply Chain Was a Cargo Manifest
2. 

   2.The People Who Built Marine

   • The Underwriters Who Priced the Unknowable
   • Aristotle Onassis and the Age of the Tanker
   • The Surveyors Who Decide a Ship Can Sail
   • Ignored, Ridiculed, Sometimes Ruined
   • What Each of Them Actually Changed
   • Every Fortune Here Began as a Purchase
3. 

   3.The Catastrophe That Wrote the Marine Rulebook

   • Torrey Canyon, and Oil on a Cornish Beach
   • Exxon Valdez and the Coming of the Double Hull
   • The Erika Breaks Up, and Europe Answers
   • Costa Concordia Was a Failure of Command
   • Reading the Modern Rulebook Backward
   • When a Regulation Becomes a Purchasing Spec
4. 

   4.What Marine Got Spectacularly Right

   • The Cheapest Ton-Mile Ever Moved
   • The Economics of the Very Large Ship
   • Harder Than It Looks from the Quayside
   • What the Fleet Proves It Can Do
   • The Limits It Chooses to Accept
   • The Buying Discipline Beneath the Low Price
5. 

   5.Marine: Booms, Busts and Absurdities

   • The Post-War Boom in Bulk and Boxes
   • The Perpetual Sin of Over-Ordering
   • Fuel Choice as a Twenty-Year Bet
   • Run from a Handful of Small Cities
   • Flags of Convenience and Other Fossils
   • When a Spare Part Must Chase a Ship
6. 

   6.Follow the Money in Marine

   • What the Industry Actually Sells
   • The Cost Base of a Typical Operator
   • Fixed Costs Against Variable Ones
   • Where the Margin Really Sits
   • The Economics That Explain the Madness
   • What Gets Made and What Gets Bought
7. 

   7.Marine From One End to the Other

   • Chartering and Operating the Vessel
   • Alongside: Port and Terminal Handling
   • Bunkering, and the Fuel That Moves It
   • Ship Management and the Daily Grind
   • Dry Docking, Cargo, and the Handoffs Between
   • What the Sector Runs Itself, and What It Buys
8. 

   8.The Marine Supply Base and Everyone in the Room

   • Everyone in the Room
   • Who Holds Power over Whom
   • What the Sector Buys and Moves
   • Vessels Against Slots and Tides
   • The Worldwide Spares and Stores Chain
   • Concentrated or Fragmented, and How Easily Replaced
9. 

   9.Commercial and Data Norms in Marine

   • How a Deal Gets Structured
   • Time Charters and Voyage Charters
   • Bunker Contracts and Dry Dock Pricing
   • Ship Management Agreements
   • The Standards and Identifiers It Runs On
   • When the Systems Become the Supply Risk
10. 

    10.The Marine Rulebook and Its Enforcers

    • The IMO and Its Conventions
    • SOLAS, MARPOL and the Safety Floor
    • EEXI, CII and the Sulfur Cap
    • Port State Control, Flags and Who Inspects
    • A Fine, or a Criminal File
    • When the Rulebook Reaches the Purchase Order
11. 

    11.The People Who Do the Work in Marine

    • Who Works This Industry, and What They Fear
    • The Careers and the Ladders
    • Qualifications That Carry Weight
    • The Ethical Pressure Points
    • Seafarer Welfare and the Crew Change
    • The Shore-Based Skills the Sector Now Buys
12. 

    12.What Is Industry 5.0, and What Does It Mean for Marine?

    • What the European Commission Named
    • Human-Centricity, Resilience, Sustainability
    • What Efficiency Left Out
    • Where the Three Land Unevenly at Sea
    • The Value Marine Was Trained to Neglect
    • Why Supply Chain Carries the Turn
13. 

    13.Robots, Algorithms and People in Marine

    • Together, Not in Succession
    • What the Machines Carry
    • What the People Carry
    • A Boundary Designed, Not Discovered
    • The Constraint That Sets the Line at Sea
    • Who Buys the Skills the Boundary Needs
14. 

    14.What the Machines Are Actually Doing in Marine

    • Route and Speed Against Fuel and Emissions
    • Predicting the Port Call and the Berth
    • Machinery That Warns Before It Breaks
    • Deployed Capability Against Vendor Projection
    • When the System Acts Without a Human
    • What This Changes for the People Who Buy It
15. 

    15.The Bill Arrives: The Marine Environmental Account

    • The IMO Decarbonisation Trajectory
    • LNG, Methanol and Ammonia
    • Ballast Water and the Clean Hull
    • Regulated, Demanded, or Still Voluntary
    • How Fast the Voluntary Column Empties
    • The Fuel Bet Lands in Procurement
16. 

    16.Built to Bend: Resilience in Marine

    • Rerouting Around a Closed Chokepoint
    • Congestion, and the Cargo That Cannot Wait
    • Efficiency Against the Capacity to Absorb
    • Who Is Entitled to Make the Call
    • Nobody, Until It Is Too Late
    • Resilience Is Bought Before It Is Needed
17. 

    17.Who Actually Decides in Marine?

    • The Two Largest Controllable Costs
    • Contracting in a Volatile Market
    • Following One Sourcing Decision
    • Its Effect on Cost, Risk and Compliance
    • And Its Effect on the Customer
    • How Few People Were in the Room
18. 

    18.In Marine, the Chain Is the Business

    • A Spare Part Must Meet the Ship
    • Positioning, Not Stocking
    • Following One Flow Decision
    • Service, Working Capital, Continuity
    • Where Reputation Is Made and Lost
    • The Chain Is the Product
19. 

    19.What Marine Now Requires, and Why Depth Wins

    • Three Problems, One Portfolio
    • What the Job Now Demands
    • The Honest Distance Between
    • Why Sector Depth Wins
    • Knowledge That Walks Out the Door
    • The Capability a Business Learns to Trust
20. 

    20.An Honest Look at Your Own Marine Operation

    • A Mirror, Not a Scorecard
    • Scoring Against the Three Values
    • Your Own Sector Risk Profile
    • Where Your Automation Boundary Sits
    • The Readiness View You Take Back
    • Why Your Supply Chain Decides the Answer
21. 

    20 modules, 60 guided hours, 92 case studies, mastering the journey from ship to shore through supply chain, sourcing, and procurement.