ICS Syllabus
The ICS syllabus for its Professional Qualifying Examinations
(PQE) is designed to examine students on a wide range of commercial
shipping activity.
Compulsory Papers - Group 1
These papers are compulsory because they represent the
fundamental underpinnings of all activity within the commercial
shipping industry. Shipping Business must be taken within your
first year of study:
Introduction to
Shipping
Legal Principles in
Shipping Business
Economics of Sea
Transport & International Trade
Shipping Business
(compulsory in first year)
Optional Papers - Group 2
Optional papers cover a wide range of practical shipping
disciplines in considerable detail:
Dry Cargo
Chartering
Ship Operations &
Management
Ship Sale &
Purchase
Tanker Chartering
Liner Trades
Port Agency
Logistics &
Multi-modal Transport
Port & Terminal
Management
Offshore
Support Industry
Optional Papers - Group 3
Shipping Law
Marine Insurance
Shipping Finance