The Daily Draft is a free six-day course on commercial shipping delivered by email. It explains the main ship types and the job that shipping does in the world today, and provides a mass of background information and extra learning materials to put everything in context.
The Daily Draft is an introductory course and a great opportunity to get a taste of the other courses Coracle offers. In only ten minutes a day, you'll get a solid general understanding of ship types and a grasp of the bigger picture that will help you in your work and studies.
Sign up here and we'll send you part one today.
Who's it for?
The Daily Draft is a starter course designed for anybody who comes into contact with the world of shipping in their job – shipping clerks, trainee seamen, import-export agents, port administrators, maritime lawyers, logistics planners and government workers.
How does it work?
Sign up and every day for the next six days we'll deliver an email explaining a new ship type, from bulk carriers, to ore and combination carriers, liners, general purpose carriers, tankers, and refrigerated ships and containers.
Click through to the Coracle site and you'll find a wealth of background material including images, diagrams, facts and figures and links to video and technical information.
After six days you'll have a clear understanding of
- The main ship types and the freight they carry
- How demand for basic commodities like oil and food affects the shipping business and shipping routes
- How changes in global commerce are affecting ship design
- The pressures on the shipping business from the law and the world economy
The course also offers a wealth of other resources including links to resources and technical material, photographs, diagrams and news about shipping.
Sign up free of charge right away and we'll send you the first Daily Draft today.