B.Com. (Transport Management) Shipping and Water Management Syllabus - Mumbai University
This is the FY BCom TM syllabus under NEP 2020, in force from the academic year 2024-25. The University still sets the earlier Choice Based papers alongside it for ATKT candidates, so check which scheme your exam form names before you revise.
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Syllabus for Shipping and Water Management
Module I
- Unit I Introduction of Shipping & General Structure of Shipping Industry
- Modes of transportation and their advantages and disadvantages, Ships – different types and sizes with their important features and their suitability to different cargoes, Foreign going, Coastal, inland vessels, etc. Basic shipping terminology including abbreviations, General particulars of ships. Bills of Lading – functions, conditions, contents, types and general information.
- Unit II General Structure of Shipping Industry and Cargo Documentation
- Liner and tramp services, Liner shipping – essential features, break bulk, modes of unitization, , container sizes and types, container terminology, freighting, marketing of liner shipping, documents. Agents ship, port and liner agents and their roles in shipping, Freight forwarders, Freight brokers, ship brokers and other intermediaries in shipping. Manifest, Mate's Receipt, Tally sheets, Notice of Readiness, Statement of Facts, etc.Custom house work – Inward and outward entry of ships documentation, Customs Bill of Entry and Shipping Bill.
References
- Research in Transport by R.R. Khan, Institute of Business Management, 2013.
- Shipping practice with a consideration of relevant Laws by Steven Edward F, Sterling Publisher, 1999.
- Ships and Shipping by M. Palmer, 1971
- Merchant Ships and Shipping by R. Munro Smith, Hutchinson, 1968
- Commercial Geography by S.D. Paranjpe, Mannan publication, 1990
- Geography of sea transport by A.D. cooper, 1972
- Indian Transport Towards the New Millennium: Performance, Analysis, and Policy by R. Ramanathan, Concept Publishing Co., 2004
- Inland Water Transport in India by Rameshwar Prasad Misra, Prasaranga, University of Mysore forInstitute of Development Studies, 1972
- Bill of Lading by captain D.E. Driver, Navaneet publication, 1995
- Dictionary of Shipping Terms by Peter R. Brodie, Informa Law from Routledge, 2007
Reproduced from the University of Mumbai syllabus for B.Com. (Transport Management) under NEP 2020, in force from the academic year 2024-25. Wording is as printed in that syllabus. Module numbering is as printed there too.
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