commerce and the country's defence. The course of study focuses on
transportation as a total system, i.e., logistics. The specific courses in this area
include transportaion and managerial economics, logistics and transportation management,
and managerial decision making. Other subject matter includes general management
principles supported by industrial psychology, business and admiralty law, marine
insurance, marketing, and courses that deal with special aspects of the maritime industry
and marine transportation.
The Maritime Management Science Course curriculum beginning in the
second year and the fourth (senior) year is summarised below.
Engineering Economics
Management Information System
Organisational Behavior
Marine Insurance
Production Management
Logistics Management
Shipping Business
Management Science
International Trade
Port Management
The course of study for students majoring in the Maritime Information
Engineering Course includes basically the theoretical and practical education necessary to
develop highly qualified licenced officers. It combines the social and natural sciences
with nautical and marine transportation subjects to achieve a well-rounded academic
programme which will fully equip the graduate to meet the present and future challenges of
life and needs of business and industry.
The Maritime Information Engineering Course offers a curriculum with
elective concentrations in advanced computer science, data processing system, system
analysis, management information system, and information technology.
The primary aim of the academic programme is to offer a strong
foundation on which to build a career. This educational effort seeks more specifically to
increase the students' capacity for quick, flexible adjustment to the rapidly changing
conditions in the information world; to enlarge students' understanding of the maritime
information' system; and to provide students with the foundation for continuing
self-education and development in the maritime information-related fields.
The Maritime Information Engineering Course curriculum beginning in the
second year and the fourth (senior) year is summarised below.
