Skills:
• Ability to solve complex, unpredictable tasks and problems in a specialized field of professional activity and/or study, involving the collection and interpretation of information (data), selection of methods and tools, and application of innovative approaches; 
• Ability to identify and structure enterprise problems; 
• Ability to formulate well-founded management decisions. 

Knowledge:
• Structure of interaction among water transport transport participants; 
• Principles of water transport shipping services market functioning; 
• Problems of traffic flow management at marine and river transport enterprises. 

Understanding:
• Subject area and the core essence of professional activity; 
• Principles of applying statistical and economic methods to evaluate the performance of water transport enterprises;
• Organizational performance results and their connection with external and internal environmental impact factors; 
• Critical reflection on new theories, principles, methods, and concepts in learning and professional activity. 

The primary goal of studying the academic discipline "Commercial Operation of Marine and River Transport" is to deepen students' knowledge in the field of the commercial component of water transport management, familiarize them with the practice of professional correspondence, and study standard charter party proformas, current conventions, and the specifics of contractual relationships between maritime transport participants, freight brokers, ship agents, shipowners, charterers, and traders. 

Through this discipline, students will have the opportunity to understand the position of our country's economy within the global transport system and grasp the processes of integration and globalization in the industries of production and transportation.

Students will study the trends shaping the structure of the global and Ukrainian shipping services market, as well as the volumes of cargo transported from our country. 

• Section 1. Traffic flow management in water transport; 
• Section 2. Commercial conditions of the main forms of shipping; 
• Section 3. Terms of foreign trade contracts; 
• Section 4. Freight market and tonnage chartering techniques; 
• Section 5. Types of carriage contracts in water transport; 
• Section 6. Insurance in the water transport industry; 
• Section 7. Voyage chartering; 
• Section 8. Time chartering; 
• Section 9. Specialized charters and contracts; 
• Section 10. Organization and commercial conditions of ship servicing and handling in ports;
• Section 11. Quality of water transport shipping.