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Hulls and Machine Damage Claims Surveying

Hulls and Machine Damage Claims Surveying

Hull & Machinery (H&M) insurance protects shipowners against physical loss or damage to a vessel’s hull, machinery, and associated equipment. This coverage is essential for safeguarding maritime assets and is often extended to benefit mortgagees when financing is involved. Our course provides a clear understanding of H&M insurance structures, claims handling, and practical risk management, ensuring you can confidently navigate the complexities of vessel insurance within maritime operations.

750.00 € 750.00 €

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This Advanced Diploma comprises four core units and one specialisation one:

CORE UNIT:

Unit of Competency Code Course Title Nominal Hours
MSC001 Introduction to Marine Surveying Profession 52
MSC002 Essential Law for Marine Surveyors 52
MSC003 Technical Report Writing Skills for Surveyors 52
MSC004 Principles of Naval Architecture and Ship Construction 52

SPECIALISATION UNIT:

Unit of Competency Code Course Title Nominal Hours
MSC010E Hull & Machinery Damage Claims 52

With this course, you will develop and deepen your knowledge of Marine Surveying, students engage with a range of exciting and challenging topics such as surveying the hull, safety & operational surveys ,incident and accident investigation.

The course also covers essential subjects such as Writing the survey report, legal aspects and insurance. 

You will learn the skills required to conduct a survey efficiently and effectively. 

Minimum Entry Requirements

There are no prerequisites for this Course, however, in order to fully benefit from the training, it is recommended that the participants are either new entrants to the shipping industry or professional staff in shipping companies, ship brokers, port agencies, insurance inspectors, banks and similar service organisations can gain a valuable understanding of their customers roles and responsibilities.

The comprehensive documentation that accompanies the course has been designed as a useful guide for future reference.


Who Should Attend

The Maritime field is extremely broad and brings about relationships with a variety of people with varying levels of experience from the many different aspects of shipping therefore this Course is suitable for a broad range of maritime related professionals and regularly attracts ships’ officers and shore-based management staff.

But the course is also valuable to Classification Societies, Marine Insurers, P&I Club Managers, Port Authorities and Coast Guard personnel amongst others.

The course is conducted online and provides a wonderful chance to build your international professional network without having to afford any travel expenses. Often more than 10 nationalities participate and are introduced to each other thanks to our education portal features.


  • Producers, Traders or Commodities Brokers and Suppliers
  • Ship agent, Shipbrokers
  • Shipowners, Charterers, Shippers and Maritime Attorneys
  • Purchasers and Technical Managers and Superintendents
  • Captains, Chief Engineers and Ship Staff
  • Insurance Company Underwriters, claims handlers, and members of the legal profession
  • Service providers, Surveyors, Inspectors, Analysts, Technical advisers
  • Practicing cargo agents, Freight forwarders, Shipping Industry starters, cargo consolidators
  • Other professionals.