JBC offers a full range of training programmes for the maritime community from new recruits to the senior management level. All courses are delivered by our speakers of experienced professional, lecturers and consultants, most of whom are experts in their specific field.

• Carriage of Goods by Sea
  • Hague Rules, Hague-Visby Rules and Hamburg Rules
  • Contract of carriage of goods by sea
  • Transport documents and electronic commerce
  • Liability of the carrier
  • Claims and actions
  • Charterparties

• Charterparties
• Types of charters
• Documentation of Charterparties
• Classification of charter terms
• Time charters
• Voyage charter
• Bill of Lading Issued Under Charters

• Cargo Documents
  • Types of cargo documents:
  • Usual Clauses in a Bill of Lading
  • The Cargo Regimes
  • Delivery of Cargo
  • Rights of Suit and Endorsed BL
  • Container Shipping
  • Dispute Resolution

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• Maritime Insurance - Law & Practice
  • Historical Development
  • Insurable Interest and Subject-matter
  • Basic principles
  • Hull insurance
  • Cargo Insurance
  • Liability Insurance
  • P&I Insurance
  • War Risk
  • Marine Insurance Legislation
  • UNCTAD Standard Clause
    

• Maritime Risk & Insurance
  • General Average
  • Engine Seizure
  • Brokers & Marine Claims
  • Mortgagee's Interest Insurance
  • Marine Insurance Fraud
    

• Maritime Claims - Hull Insurance
  • Introduction to Hull Insurance
  • The Insurance Contract
  • Risks and Exclusions
  • Minimising Losses & Warranties
  • Review of Contemporary Developments

• Maritime Claims - Cargo Insurance
  • Key Features in the Insurance Contract
  • Documents & Claims
  • Key Features in Insurance Claims
  • Documents & Responsibilities
  • Know & Use Cargo Claim Clauses

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• International Maritime Law - A Short Course
  • Introduction to International Maritime Law
  • Charterparties
  • Cargo Claims
  • Freight Forwarding & Multimodal Transport
  • The Vessel & Liabilities
  • Enforcement of Maritme Claims
  • Maritime Insurance

• P&I Clubs - Law & Insurance
  • Overview and Latest Updates Affecting P&I
  • Release of Goods without Bill of Lading
  • Arrest & P&I Undertakings
  • Protection Clauses and Sub-Contractor's Liabilities
  • Crisis Management

• Enforcement of Maritime Claims
• Ship Arrest
• In rem and In personam Proceedings
• Jurisdiction
• Mareva Injunctions
• The 1952 Arrest Convention
• Maritime Arbitration
  

• Ship Arrest: Legal & Practical Issues
  • The Right of Arrest & Caveat Against Arrest
  • Release, Security & Damages for Wrongful Arrest
  • Judicial Sale & Purchase
  • Ship Arrest as Security for Arbitration
  • Alternative Remedies to Ship Arrest
  • Mareva Injunction
  • Maritime Liens

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• Maritime Collisions / Disasters : Legal & Practical Response
  • Legal & Practical Response to a Collision / Disaster
  • Basis of Collision Liability
  • Statement Taking in a Collision
  • De-linking Political & Legal Issues
  • Anatomy of A Maritme Disaster
  • Vessel Traffic Scheme
  • Convention on the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972 (COLREGS)
  • Case Law on Collisions
  • Apportionment of Fault in Collision Cases
    

• Admiralty Law & Practice
  • Introduction to Admiralty Jurisdiction
  • Order 70 Rules of the High Court 1980
  • Liens and Limitation of Liability

• Ship Financing
  • Ship Financing and Documentation
    • Preliminary Issues
    • Financing the builder in the construction of a new vessel
    • Financing the purchase of a vessel
  • Enforcement
    • Rights and Remedies
    • Priorities
    • Priorities between Mortgages

• General Average
  • Historical Development
  • York-Antwerp Rules
  • General Average Cases
  • Inter-relationship Between General Average, Marine Insurance and Salvage

• Limitation of Liabilities
• Limitation of Liability Concept
• Conventions on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims
• Calculation of Limitation Funds
• Administration/Assessment of Claims & Distribution of Funds
• Legal issues of the establishment of a Fund

• Towage
  • Towage or Salvage?
  • Towage Contracts
  • Implied Terms
  • Third Party Liabilities

• Marine Pilotage
  • Legal Status of a Pilot
  • Liability of a Pilot
  • Liability of Pilotage Authorities
  • Pilotage and Port Authorities
  • Compulsory Pilotage

• Maritime Arbitration
  • Fundamentals of Arbitration
  • Arbitrator's authority
  • Pleadings / Point of Claim / Statement of Case
  • Preliminary Meeting and Interlocutory Proceedings
  • Procedure at the Hearing and Evidence
  • Costs and Interest
  • Essentials of the Award
  • International Arbitration in Singapore / UNCITRAL Model Law
  • Common Arbitration Terms and Expression