A vessel that breaks down mid-voyage rarely fails without warning — the signs are usually sitting in maintenance logs and performance data weeks or months before the failure actually happens, unnoticed because nobody was managing the fleet as a whole system. Fleet Management exists to close that gap: keeping every vessel across a fleet performing reliably, safely, and cost-effectively, rather than reacting to problems one ship at a time. The Marine Fleet Management Training Course, is built for professionals responsible for vessel management across multiple ships, where small inefficiencies multiply quickly at fleet scale.
This course treats fleet management as a discipline built on planning and data, not reactive firefighting. Participants explore how vessel management decisions affect performance across an entire fleet, how maintenance planning prevents costly breakdowns rather than simply responding to them, and how operational efficiency is genuinely measured and improved across different vessel types and trades. The course also covers fleet performance benchmarking in practical terms — comparing vessels fairly, identifying underperformers early, and using that insight to guide investment and deployment decisions. Participants leave with a practical, systems-level understanding of marine fleet management they can apply directly to maintenance planning, performance monitoring, and operational decisions across their own fleet.
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
Apply Fleet Management principles to improve performance across multiple vessels
Manage vessel management decisions that affect reliability and cost at fleet scale
Build maintenance planning schedules that prevent breakdowns rather than react to them
Improve operational efficiency across different vessel types and trading patterns
Benchmark fleet performance fairly and identify underperforming vessels early
Use performance and maintenance data to guide fleet investment decisions
Balance maintenance costs against operational availability and safety requirements
Coordinate fleet-wide decisions across technical, operational, and commercial teams
Target Group
Fleet managers and marine superintendents overseeing multiple vessels
Technical managers responsible for vessel maintenance and reliability
How vessel management, maintenance, and operations interconnect across a fleet
Vessel Management Across a Fleet
Managing consistency and standards across vessels of different age and type
Identifying fleet-wide risks that individual vessel management can overlook
Building Effective Maintenance Planning
Structuring maintenance schedules that prevent breakdowns before they occur
Balancing planned maintenance against operational availability requirements
Improving Operational Efficiency
Identifying efficiency gains across fuel consumption, routing, and scheduling
Applying operational improvements consistently across different vessel types
Measuring and Benchmarking Fleet Performance
Comparing vessel performance fairly across trades, age, and vessel type
Identifying underperforming vessels before they affect fleet-wide results
Using Data to Drive Fleet Decisions
Applying maintenance and performance data to guide investment and deployment
Avoiding decisions based on incomplete or misleading fleet data
Balancing Cost, Safety, and Availability
Managing the trade-off between maintenance spend and operational availability
Avoiding cost-cutting decisions that create safety or reliability risk
Coordinating Across Technical, Operational, and Commercial Teams
Aligning fleet decisions across departments with different priorities
Managing conflicts between operational demands and maintenance requirements
Building Long-Term Fleet Performance Strategy
Applying lessons learned across the fleet to future vessel investment decisions
Sustaining fleet performance improvement beyond a single review cycle
Schedule & Fees
2026 Schedule & Fees
There are no public sessions remaining for the course this year. Please contact us if you wish to have a customized in-house session, or to find out how an additional public session can be scheduled.