
The lecture describes the basics of maritime transportation. 90% of world's cargoes are transported through sea by volume. The cargoes are transported from one place to another place either in the containers or in the bulk manner or in the break-bulk manner. The lecture describes about the salient features and challenges faced by the maritime / shipping industry.
The lecture discusses about the different services that are being offered by various organisations involved in the transportation of cargoes through sea transport.
The lecture describes about the ways of raising capital by using equity funds.
The lecture discusses about the various sources of debt financing that are used by shipping companies.
The lecture highlights the importance of the most common types of leasing structures in shipping such as operating lease and finance lease.
The lecture discusses the availability of a special type of financing technique called as Mezzanine financing to the shipping companies, to raise funds for an acquisition of a ship through a hybrid of debt and equity financing.
The lecture describes the different investment decisions that are typically used by shipping companies to expand or diversify their operations.
The lecture discusses about the features of the various methods of investment appraisal by the shipping companies.
The lecture describes about the market structure of shipping industry its participants.
The lecture discusses about the salient features of the ship as an investment.
The lecture highlights the importance of Ship Sale & Purchase (S&P), which is considered to be the business practice of buying and selling commercial ships in the open market.
The lecture discusses about the ways and means of ship sale and purchase of second-hand ships.
The online course describes about the basics of maritime transportation, the shipping services, the different sources of capital that are available for the shipping companies such as equity financing, debt financing, leasing and mezzanine financing, the different investment decisions that are to be made by the shipping companies, the ship sale & purchase of new ships and second-hand ships.