BSc Nautical Sciences Shipping Management Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026

Module I: MARINE MANAGEMENT

• Managing & Managers: Organization and the need for management; the management process; types of managers; management level and skills; managerial roles; the challenge of management. The evolution of management theory: Why study management theory? The classical Management theories; the behavioural school; the quantitative school – operations research and Management science; the evolution of management theory The external environment of organisations: the external environment and its importance; Elements of the direct-action environment; elements of the indirect- action environment; theories of total organisation environments, managing the total environment. Planning and strategic management: Planning – an overview; the formal planning process; the evolution of the concept of strategy. Social responsibility and ethics: the changing concept of social responsibilities; the shift to ethics; the tools of ethics; the challenge of relativism.

Module II: MARINE MANAGEMENT

• Strategy implementation: Matching strategy implementation to strategy; matching structure and strategy; institutionalizing strategy. Decision Making: Problem and opportunity finding, the nature of managerial decision making; the rational model of decision making, challenges to the rational model,improving the effectiveness of decision making and problem solving. Planning and decision – making tools & techniques: themanagement science approach; the management scienceprocess; planning for the future – forecasting; planningfor the future – scheduling; planning to meet goals with certainty; planning to meet goals with uncertainty. Organisational structure, co-ordination, and design:organisational structure; types of organizational structures; co- ordination; organisational design. Authority, delegation, and decentralisation: Authority, power, and influence; line and staff authority; delegation; job design; decentralisation.

Module III: COMMERCIAL SHIPPING MANAGEMENT

• International Trade and Shipping: Seaborne trade of theworld composition and direction of cargoes – different typesof ships which carry them – Technological development –Role of Shipping on national economic development. Basic Structure of Shipping Industry: Types of Shipping services – Liner and Tramp – Role of Intermediaries in shipping business: Freight brokers, clearing and ForwardingAgents, Stevedores – Shipbrokers, Bunker and Storessuppliers etc. Shipping Agencies. Liner Trades – characteristics – Liner Conferences – HowFreight rates are fixed, Components of Liner Freight – Non – Conference lines – competition. Procedures of Shippingcargoes and related documentation; Mate’s Receipt, Bill ofLading. Unit load systems – containerization and multimodaltransport. Tramp Trades – Chartering – different types of chartering ships – their relevance to trades – Procedures anddocumentation relating chartering – Charter markets of theworld – How freight / charterhire is fixed. Organisation of shippingcompany – Manpower planning –Business and cargo management – Statutory regulations to be complied with like Foreign Exchange Regulation. Behavior based safety (Importance of human element). Mental health and wellness at sea

Reference Books

This paper runs across both semesters of the year and the University prints one list of reference books for it, at the end of the second half. Her list is repeated here so that this half is not read as a paper she recommends no reading for.

• 1 Management Stiner & Freeman
• 2 The Practice of Management Drucker P.
• 3 People in Organizations: Introduction to organizational behavior Mitchell, T. R.
• 4 Consumer Behavior: Basic findings & Management Implications Zaltman G.
• 5 The Mathematics of Investment W L Hart
• 6 Information System: Theory and Practice Burch Jr.
• 7 A Concept of corporate planning Russel L. Ackoff
• 8 IACOCCA: An autobiography Lee Iacocca
• 9 An introduction to Financial Management Solomon & Pringle
• 10 Human Resource management R.S. Dwivedi
• 11 An introduction Database Systems Dale C.J.
• 12 Monetary Planning for India Gupta Suraj B.
• 13 International Maritime Fraud Ellen & Campbell
• 14 Elements of Shipping Alan E. Branch
• 15 Containerization, Multimodal Transport& Infrastructure development in India Dr. K.V. Hariharan
• 16 RPSL Rules Govt. of India Objective: -The subject will develop basics of Principles of Navigation / Navigation - III and Voyage Planning & Collision Prevention - III.