Specialisation Practitioner
Performance and the Money
The fuel you actually received, what the regulations now charge for every tonne of it, and how a performance number survives a charterer.
- Courses
- 3
- Lessons
- 24
- Time
- About 5 hours
- Price
- €549+ VAT
- Assumed knowledge
- None strictly, though Compliance Calculations & Life-Cycle Emissions assumes the orientation our free course Maritime Regulations, Explained gives (what each regime is and whom it applies to) and goes straight to the numbers. The bunkers course assumes no engineering background beyond arithmetic, and names where it stops: Marine Engineering & Main Engines owns what this fuel does to machinery, Alternative Fuels for Shipping owns FAME chemistry, and Maritime Regulations, Explained owns the regulations, all three cited rather than re-taught. The claims course assumes no legal background whatever: every case in it is worked from a source you can open for free, and the mathematics is a cube law and a weighted mean. The ISO 19030 course in Vessel Performance Analyst I is its natural companion, because the filter chain and the good-weather clause are the same idea wearing different clothes, and Currents and Water Properties owns the along-track component and the sign traps the claims course warns about rather than re-derives.
€549 + VAT for the sequence
The 3 paid courses cost €657 bought one at a time; as a specialisation they are €549, a saving of €108 (16%).
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You own this specialisation. Every course in it is open to you.
Every performance argument ends in an invoice, and this sequence is about the three places the invoice is decided. Bunkers: Quantity and Quality starts where the money starts, at the manifold: how a delivery note's tonnes are made out of a sounding, a temperature correction and a density the seller declared, what a mass flow meter settles and what it leaves standing, which of the samples a claim can actually be built on, why the cheapest tonne is routinely the dearest gigajoule, and when a laboratory result over a limit is a claim rather than the test method's own scatter. Compliance Calculations & Life-Cycle Emissions then follows one ship's twelve months of fuel through the four regimes that judge it, the CII, the EU ETS, FuelEU Maritime and the draft IMO Net-Zero Framework, with the life-cycle method that decides what a fuel's number is, as worked arithmetic rather than policy. The Warranted Ship: Speed and Consumption Claims closes with the oldest performance dispute in shipping, the charter-party warranty, taken apart clause by clause rather than case by case: what 'about 14 knots on about 25 tonnes' actually promises and what those two words are worth in dollars, which days of a passage the good-weather clause even lets you measure on, why a deficiency proved on five days is charged against all twenty, who owns the benefit of a favourable current on the authorities as they stand, whose record a tribunal has generally believed when the deck log and the weather-routing report disagree, and the six lines that would have prevented the whole argument at fixture time.
What you'll learn
- Take a bunker delivery note apart into the three claims behind it, price the sounding, the missing temperature correction and the declared-versus-tested density gap, and carry the result into the fuel ledger
- Rank competing offers in dollars per gigajoule rather than dollars per tonne, and decide whether a laboratory result over a limit is a claim, the test method's own scatter, or a safety question no margin answers
- Work one ship's year of fuel through the CII, the EU ETS, FuelEU Maritime and the draft IMO Net-Zero Framework: rate it under the first and price it under the other three
- Draw a good-weather sample from a voyage abstract under the charter's own clause, extrapolate the deficiency across the whole passage as tribunals do, and price it in hire and in bunkers
- Weigh a deck log against a weather-routing report, put a case on currents no more strongly than the free sources put it, and name the two lines at fixture worth spending leverage on
The sequence
Each course stands alone; this order is the order the knowledge builds.
How the courses build on each other
The order is the order of the money. Bunkers: Quantity and Quality comes first because every downstream number, the consumption a claim is judged on, the tonnes the regulator prices, starts as a measured quantity, and the course spends its eight lessons on how that quantity goes wrong, what a tonne of it is actually worth in energy, and how few days are left to say so before a supplier's time bar closes. Compliance Calculations & Life-Cycle Emissions comes second because it turns tonnes into four verdicts, three of them bills, under regimes that overlap without agreeing, and a reader who has just learned how uncertain a tonne is, and that the tested calorific value never enters DCS, CII, the EU ETS or FuelEU, reads a carbon invoice differently. The Warranted Ship: Speed and Consumption Claims closes because it is where measurement, weather and money meet an arbitrator: the good-weather clause is the ISO 19030 filter chain with a lawyer attached, and the extrapolation rule, that a deficiency proved on a handful of good days is charged against the whole voyage in every weather, is the surprise that sets the size of a claim. It is also careful about how strongly it puts things, because its subject is easily overclaimed: every case is cited to a source the reader can open, no proposition is stated more firmly than that source states it, and where the law is unsettled the course says so and names the competing readings. Its last lesson turns the whole course back into money, ranking the drafting changes by what each was worth on one voyage built for the course, because the cheapest lever in the book is the one you have to persuade a chartering desk to pull. Fuel quality as an engine problem is owned by Marine Engineering & Main Engines and is cited rather than re-taught; the regulations themselves are explained in Maritime Regulations, Explained, which this sequence assumes rather than repeats.
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Paid Practitioner
Bunkers: Quantity and Quality
The fuel a ship actually receives and pays for, taken apart claim by claim: how a delivery note's tonnes are made and which of the three inputs moves the most money, what a mass flow meter deletes and what it leaves behind, the samples that decide a dispute two years later, why a tonne is not a gigajoule, what an ISO 8217:2024 grade name promises and what the buyer has to add, when a laboratory result is a claim and when it is noise, what the water and the ash cost before anything is burned, and the time bar that expires before the stem reaches the service tank.
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Paid Practitioner
Compliance Calculations & Life-Cycle Emissions
Four regulations, one set of bunker records, four different answers: how to compute a ship's CII rating, its EU ETS allowance bill, its FuelEU balance and penalty, and its position under the draft IMO Net-Zero Framework, and the life-cycle method that decides what a fuel's number is before any of them start.
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Paid Practitioner
The Warranted Ship: Speed and Consumption Claims
The oldest performance dispute in shipping, taken apart clause by clause: what 'about 14 knots on about 25 tonnes' actually promises and what those two words are worth in dollars, which days of a passage the good-weather clause even lets you measure on, why a shortfall proved on five days is charged against all twenty, who owns the benefit of a favourable current and how far the authorities go, whether a deck log or a weather-routing report is believed when the two disagree, what an expert report has to survive when a court reads it, and the six lines that would have prevented every argument at fixture time.
The specialisation certificate
Every course above ends in a graded final exam and a certificate. Hold the certificate for every course, and a capstone project unlocks: one scenario that draws on the whole sequence, marked on our server. Pass it and you get a second, separate certificate for the specialisation itself, naming every course it comprises: its own number, verifiable the same way.
Who teaches this
Common questions
Which courses are free?
None of the three: this is a paid sequence. Each course opens its first lesson free as a sample, and buying the specialisation is cheaper than buying the three courses one at a time. The specialisation certificate comes with the capstone, once all three course certificates are held.
Is this for chartering people or technical people?
Both, on purpose. The bunker and claims courses are written so a superintendent and an operator can read the same page and argue from the same numbers. Nothing in it assumes a legal background, and nothing assumes an engineering one beyond the arithmetic of a cube law.
How much time should I plan for?
Each course states its reading time on its page, and the sequence total is shown above. A few weeks alongside work is a comfortable pace: the quizzes make it easy to stop and resume.