Goals and objectives:

The major of Transportation Management aims at cultivating top shipping and ports managementtalentswith well-grounded knowledge, therelative theory and business, familiarizing with the latest development of the trade, possessing the innovative ability and team spirit.

Majoradvantages:

This majorwasoriginallyShipping Management of Dalian Marine College founded in 1953 and thenrenamedtransportation major (direction of International Shipping Management). The major is a pioneer in cultivatingprofessional elites withoperating and governing port and shipping corporationcapacity. Transportation Management (including English-Emphasized Class) represents the traditional strength of Dalian Maritime University, and is also identified as one of the mostcharacteristicshipping professionals in the University, exertinga great impact on domestic shipping, port, maritime industries, as well as related transportation service industry, financial industry,collegesand scientific research institutes. A large number of senior managers working in China’s large shipping companies and port groups graduated from this major. Withgreat reputation, manygovernment departments and companiescome and employthe graduates, talents demanding exceeding the supply.

The majorhas arational structure withteaching staff,90%with a doctoral degree, leadingacademic level and rich teaching experience. The scale and level of laboratories rank the forefront of similar majors in domestic universities.With the support of this major,Dalian Maritime University was considered as the training base for the provincial shortage of undergraduate talents by the Liaoning Provincial Education Department in December 2006, one of the pilot programs of the first international undergraduate professional curriculum systemin 2015.

Main courses:

Liner Shipping Practice and Law, Shipping by Chartering, Maritime Law, Administrative Management and Regulations of Transportation, Shipping Economics, Shipping Management, Transportation Economics, Port Economics,Shipping Economics,Shipping Business Management, Transportation Agency Business, Foreign Trade Transportation Insurance, Shipping Derivatives and Risk Management, International Shipping Policy, International Multimodal Transport, Water Transportation Development Strategy, Port Handling Technology, Port Management, Port Planning, Ship Cognitive Internship (One weekon"Yu Kun"vessel), Shipping Company Management and Development Strategy Case, Post-evaluation of Ship Investment Plan Optimization and Decision Management, Transportation Studies, Operational Research, International Aviation Geography, Shipping Marketing, Management Foundation,Microeconomics,Systems Engineering, Introduction to Navigation, Logistics Foundation, International Trade Practice, Business Management Statistics and Financial Management etc.

Prospective employment:

Transportation Administration Agencies (Transportation Department, Provincial Department of Transportation, Provincial and Port Authority, Maritime Affairs Bureau), shipping companies, port companies, transportation companies of cargo owners, logistics companies, shipping agencies and freight forwarding companies, financial industry, university, research institutes and other foreign-related transportation service departments.