Professional Diploma in Ship Cargo Loading and Discharge Operations

To give you the knowledge to plan, supervise and improve the loading and discharge of ship cargo safely, efficiently and in line with international rules, from the stowage plan to the final cargo documents.

Containers, general and project cargo, steel products, solid bulk cargoes such as grain, coal and ore, crude oil, oil products and chemicals, liquefied gases, vehicles on ro-ro ships and dangerous goods.

It explains how ship and shore cranes and handling equipment work, their safe working loads, rigging inspection and lifting calculations. Operating licenses for that equipment are obtained through the practical training required in each country.

The course focuses on containers. This diploma covers every major cargo type and adds stability and hull stresses, tanker and gas operations, IMDG segregation, lifting equipment and port safety.

Yes. The first module covers hydrostatics, free surface, bending moments, shear forces, draft and trim and the use of loading computers, and you apply them again in the final project.

The Cargo Securing Manual requirements, the IMSBC Code, the IBC Code, the IMDG Code with MFAG and EmS, ILO rules on dock work and ISO 17712 for container seals.

Through practical exercises such as stability calculations, bay plans, segregation checks and lifting calculations in each module, and through the final mixed-cargo stowage project.

A Navalis Institute professional diploma and a complete stowage and loading plan from your final project that you can show to employers.