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This micro-credential introduces participants to ship stability principles with specific focus on container vessels. It covers vessel design features, structural considerations, and stability fundamentals including transverse and longitudinal stability, trim, list, bending and shear forces, and external effects such as wind and turning moments. Through a combination of theory and applied calculations using the Trim and Stability booklet, participants will learn to explain ship stability under varying loading and environmental conditions to ensure safe container ship operations.
This course is designed to provide an understanding of the port system and the introduction to the components that are involved in operations in the port. It gives a full understanding about the interaction of the system with ‘inland’ components and their adjacent market. Priority will be given to the ability to change of port system in line with the dynamics of international trade.
Environmental management is a broad discipline devoted to understanding human-environment interactions and application of science to solve problem. This course introduces the general concepts of environmental management, the principles of ecology and environmental components which are related. It also discusses the concept of sustainable development in relation to the environment and examines the systems and patterns of specific environmental management in national scale. The course also discusses various forms of national environmental policies and international implemented by government to achieve sustainable development.
