Shipping Trade detailed Syllabus for Marine Engineering (Marine), 2018 scheme has been taken from the VTUs official website and presented for the VTU students. For Course Code, Subject Names, Teaching Department, Paper Setting Board, Theory Lectures, Tutorial, Practical/Drawing, Duration in Hours, CIE Marks, Total Marks, Credits and other information, visit full semester subjects post given below. The Syllabus PDF files can also be downloaded from the official website of the university.
For all the other VTU Marine 8th Sem Syllabus for BE 2018 Scheme, visit Marine Engineering 8th Sem 2018 Scheme.
For all the (Professional Elective-4) subjects refer to Professional Elective-4 Scheme. The detail syllabus for shipping trade is as follows.
Course Learning Objectives:
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Module – 1
Basic Concepts and the Geography of Maritime Trade: Basic concepts of seaborne trade, Geography of Maritime Trade, Value added by seaborne transport, Oceans, distances and transit times, Maritime trading network, Europe’s sea borne trade-North America’s sea borne trade, South America’s sea borne trade, Asia’s sea borne trade-Africa’s sea borne trade, Sea borne trade of the Middle east, Central Asia, Russia, Australia and Oceania.
Module – 2
The Principles of Maritime Trade : The Principles of Maritime Trade, building blocks of sea trade, countries that trade by sea, Trade theory and drivers of trade, Difference in production costs, Trade due to differences in natural resources, commodity trade cycles, Role of sea transport in trade, Transport of Bulk Cargoes, commercial origins of bulk shipping, the bulk fleetbulk trades, The principles of bulk transport , Liquid bulk transport, crude oil and oil products trade, Major dry bulk trades, minor bulk trades.
Module – 3
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Module – 4
The Ship Providing Transport-the Design : The Ship that provides transport, derived demand for ships, Seven questions that define a design, Ships for general cargo trades, Ships for the dry bulk trades, Ships for liquid bulk cargoes, Gas tankers, Non-cargo ships, Economic criteria for evaluating ship designs.
Module – 5
Economics of Shipbuilding & Ship Breaking: The role of merchant shipbuilding and scrapping industries, Regional structure of world shipbuilding, Shipbuilding market cycles, economic principles, shipbuilding production process, Shipbuilding costs and competitiveness, ship recycling industry, Regulation of the Maritime Industry, How regulations affect maritime economics.
Course Outcomes:
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Text Books:
- Stopford, m (2009) Maritime economics. New York.
Reference Books:
- Kevin Cullinane (2011) International Handbook of Maritime Economics Edward Elgar publishing.
- Wayne k Talley (2012) The Blackwell Companion to Maritime Economics, Wiley-Blackwell: U.K.
- ICS (2014) Introduction to Shipping.
For the detail Syllabus of all other subjects of BE (Marine) 8th Sem, visit Marine Engineering 8th Sem Subjects.
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