Logistics & Shipping · Professional · MBE™
MIML
Logistics & ShippingProfessional level
30 Hours16 Modules
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CertificationEarn an MBE™ CredentialWhen a container goes overboard or a consignment arrives wet, three questions follow: who bears the loss, whether the cover was adequate and what the carrier can limit its liability to. Marine Insurance & Mercantile Law prepares operations, claims and commercial staff to answer with method.
It covers the principles behind marine cover, the policy forms and clauses that define it, how underwriters rate a risk, how a claim runs from notice to settlement, the legal footing of trade contracts and carrier liability, and how to structure the program.
What you take away
Marine cover selectionPolicy clause interpretationCargo underwriting basicsClaims file managementThe buyers are usually companies that pay for marine cover, handle cargo claims or sign contracts of carriage: shipping lines, freight forwarders, cargo owners, brokers and the insurers themselves. Freight forwarding executives who are asked by clients what cover to buy, and who then field the claim when something goes wrong, are the most immediate fit.
Logistics practitioners in shipper organizations learn to challenge a settlement rather than accept it. Insurance professionals new to the marine class get the trade context their underwriting manuals leave out, and in-house legal advisors gain the operational vocabulary to draft usable clauses. Mixed claims, operations and commercial cohorts work best.
Mastering Business ExcellenceCertification terms and policies applyThe 16 modules move from principle to practice to law, and finish with program design. Modules 1 to 3 cover the foundations: what marine insurance is, how the market works and the core principles. Modules 4 to 6 are the product modules: cargo policies and clauses, underwriting and rating, then hull, freight and P&I cover.
Modules 7 to 9 deal with risk assessment, claims handling, general average, salvage and surveying. Modules 10 to 12 turn to mercantile law, carrier liability and the Incoterms and trade finance interface. Modules 13 to 15 address emerging, digital and geopolitical risks, and module 16 is a capstone on building a marine insurance program.
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Module nine is devoted to it. Participants learn the principle of general average and the York-Antwerp Rules, how an adjustment is prepared and how cargo contributions are calculated, then move to salvage, the LOF contract and the SCOPIC clause. The module ends with marine surveying, so a claims desk understands what the surveyor's report will contain and why it matters to the file.
Module four compares the main types of marine insurance and matches each to the risk it is meant for, then works through the Institute Cargo Clauses A, B and C, open cover against specific policies, and the special clauses for war, strikes and additional perils. Module six adds the hull side: Institute Time and Voyage Clauses, freight and loss of hire cover, and P&I liabilities.
It is written for them. Module ten sets the legal stage for global trade, explains the nature and scope of mercantile law, and then concentrates on building sound international trade contracts and drafting the clauses that most often prevent disputes. Commercial and operations staff come away able to read a contract critically and to brief a lawyer precisely when one is needed.
Module five follows the underwriting process from submission to bind and sets out the rating factors of commodity, voyage, vessel and packing, together with deductibles, sums insured and coverage limits and the use of loss history and actuarial data. Combined with the principles in module three and the loss causes in module seven, a trainee gains a complete picture of why a risk is accepted, rated or declined.
Module 11 covers carrier liability in maritime transport, the Hague-Visby, Hamburg and Rotterdam Rules, the bill of lading as the legal backbone of shipping, and liability in multimodal transport. Module 12 then connects Incoterms 2020 to the allocation of risk, sets out who insures what among buyer, seller and carrier, and explains the insurance requirements inside documentary credits and the certificate of insurance.
Self-paced, online and available on web and mobile through the Blue Ocean learning platform, with 30 hours of content split across the 16 modules. The program combines lessons with digital study resources, templates, knowledge checks and practice assessments. There are no scheduled sessions, so a claims handler can study between files, and the administrator dashboard records progress and completion for the whole cohort.
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