Management of Ports and Marine Terminals Certificate
Degree: Certificate
Major: Management of Ports and Marine Terminals
Hours: 12
Management of Ports and Marine Terminals Overview
Lamar University's Center for Advances in Port Management offers a Management of Ports and Marine Terminals Certificate for working professionals in the public port and private marine terminal industry seeking to enhance their career potential in roles of increasing management responsibilities. This is a graduate level program offered online and blends business, management and industrial engineering coursework.
You will learn from LU's College of Business and College of Engineering instructors, as well as industry leaders. This program contains just 12 hours of coursework and is offered in the fall, spring and summer semesters. In order to be accepted into this program, you must have a bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited university and official transcripts from all colleges and universities.
Management of Ports and Marine Terminals Courses You May Take
Leadership and Negotiation: This course will focus on the tools needed to become a more effective leader and negotiator. Current leadership methodology will be examined along with the effects of cognitive bias on decision-making and the power of effective written communication. Negotiation skills will be taught which will enhance your ability to prepare for and execute a negotiation. These skills will be reinforced by utilizing role-playing and a mock negotiation with your peers.
Marine Terminal Operations: This course will cover operations across a wide variety of marine terminals including container, bulk, breakbulk and cruise. The students will get familiar with real world terminal challenges, facilities, equipment, automation, and processes. The course will provide decision making tools for optimal yard, vessel and berth operations at container terminals through Navis software.
Team Leadership: This course teaches Franklin/Covey's Leadership: Great Leaders, Great Teams, and Great Results. Unleash the talent and capability of your teams by carrying out the 4 imperatives of Great Leaders. This course will help students learn how to build credibility and trust with others, define their team's purpose and align it with the organization’s goals, and encourage growth and responsibility of the unique talents of their team.
Port Property and Asset Management: Ports are an asset intensive industry that are increasingly capital constrained and large investments needed to increase port capacity, productivity, and maximize cargo throughout. This course develops the tools needed to understand and manage the port’s true infrastructure investment value. With the significant increase in global shipping, new forms of ownership, and financing port investments as well as reliable fair market asset valuation of port resources will be covered in this course.
Career Paths for Management of Ports and Marine Terminals
Upn graduation from this program, you will be prepared to work in the operations, logistics or strategic management sectors of the port and marine terminal industry. Career progression involves gaining hands-on experience in cargo handling, safety and supply chain, transitioning to supervisory roles.
Primary Careers
Port manager, terminal manager, strategist, scheduler/logistician
- Strategic and facility planning
- Capital planning
- Logistics and supply chains
- Negotiation and communication
- Terminal operations
- Decision-making/leadership
- Port and marine terminal operators
- Logistics companies
- Chemical and refining industry
- Government agencies
- Private industrial corporations