Danish Shipping Education
Danish Shipping Academy (DSA) offers Danish Shipping Education as a 2-year private education for shipping trainees employed by a shipping company, a bunker company or other sorts of shipping companies. As part of the education, you have great chances to build strong network relations with other international trainees during each module with duration of approximately 1 week. In total you will attend 5 modules with other trainees during your 2 years at DSE.
About Danish Shipping Education (DSE)
Danish Shipping Education is geared towards trainees from shipping companies, bunker companies or other sorts of shipping companies and combines theoretical and practical learning. Trainees enrolled with Danish Shipping Education are employed in trainee positions in their individual companies both before and during DSE. This ensures a strong practical complement to the education’s theoretical aspects and leads to holistic learning and solid understanding of the field.
Danish Shipping Education has been assessed by The Danish Accreditation Institution as corresponding to level 5 in the Danish Qualifications Framework for Lifelong Learning. In 2025 DSA will apply for renewal of our level approval, why DSE will add a 5th module to the existing 4 modules the education has former consisted of besides webinars. The webinars are transformed into this 5th module. Graduates from Danish Shipping Education receive an official diploma with recognized qualifications that enables them to continue their studies at institutions throughout Europe. We also experience graduates using their diploma for work positions in countries far away.
On-the-job-training
As a trainee you attend courses conducted through in-person classes at modules, and the rest of your time as a trainee you provide on-the-job training at your company at the same time. On-the-job training equips you as a trainee with practical hands-on competencies, and your time at DSE educates you with theoretical shipping knowledge and perspectives. Together this will provide you with professional competencies for the shipping industry.
Modules
Danish Shipping Education combines theory and practice and consists of 5 in-person modules on different Danish conference locations or at a conference location abroad:
Current dates for batch DSE 2025-2027:
Modul 1: 15th - 20th of September 2025
Modul 2: January 2026 (accurate dates will follow)
Modul 3: April 2026 (accurate dates will follow) Modul 4: November 2026 (accurate dates will follow)
Modul 5: 13th -18th of June 2027
Graduation Day is scheduled for June 18th 2027 unless other information is given.
Courses
DSE covers 6 academic courses through teaching sessions at modules:
Maritime Law: Legal Aspects of Shipping
The course focuses on International Maritime Law and its relationship with international trade and shipping, as well as the areas of law relevant to modern shipping companies.
Throughout the course, trainees are given the opportunity to develop their legal mindsets and expand their legal knowledge, while gaining insights into the fundamental principles of shipping and trade law.
Maritime Economics: The Global Impact on Maritime and Business Economics
The course introduces trainees to the relationship between shipping, the world economy and seaborne trade, facilitating an understanding of the relevance of trade in the global shipping market. As such, trainees will familiarize themselves with drivers of supply and demand in shipping commodity markets, economic models and their application, and differing revenue sources.
Energy & Green Transition: Adapting to Climate- and Environmental Changes
The description for this course is currently being updated and will follow.
Ship Design: Construction, Operations and Future Vessels
The course covers a range of areas, from shipping as a business entity, to ship operations and management, to the technology of different types of ships. This provides trainees with essential knowledge of ship technology, technology and policy developments, and maritime regulation, enabling them to interact effectively with the ships and environments they operate in.
Geopolitics:
The description for this course is currently being updated and will follow.
Connecting Shipping Relations
Connecting Shipping Relations operates with tools for effective and constructive collaboration across borders and fields, in order to avoid misunderstandings and promote the exchange of skills and knowledge besides enhancing techniques for negotiation.
Networking
As part of DSE, trainees are presented with a unique opportunity to build a strong network in a worldwide industry, when they have the in-person-modules in Denmark/abroad. In this way, trainees attending and completing DSE will have built not only their own skillset and competences but connected with key people from all over the worldwide shipping industry, thereby laying a solid foundation for their futures.
Practical information
Trainees are enrolled in DSE by the shipping company, bunker company, or other sorts of shipping company, with which they already have a contract. Trainees are therefore required to be employed in trainee positions before they enroll in DSE.
DSE is a private 2-year program, with participant payments that are fully paid by the hiring company.
The following prices are regulated as of primo February 2024. These prices cover enrollment into DSE excluding the 5 module payments and books. Books will be purchased only once at the beginning of DSE. Module payments will continuously be invoiced.
DKK 79,000 for members of Danish Shipping or the Danish Ferry Association
DKK 99,000 for non-members
Registration for DSE 2025-2027 is open from February 24th 2024 via this link.
The registration deadline for DSE 2025-2027 is May 30th 2025. These prices are applicable with registration before the deadline, after the deadline we cannot guarantee same prices
For HR representatives in shipping companies, bunker companies or other sorts of shipping companies
Once or twice a year DSA opens its doors, and you can visit an actual module happening. It is a good opportunity, if you are considering or already offering DSE for your trainee(s) and want to learn more about the education.
Visits in 2025 are scheduled to take place in early March and November. For more information, please reach out to DSA’s Educational Advisors at dse@danishshipping.dk
For more information
If you want to explore more of what the shipping industry can offer you, our campaign department, World Careers (WOCA) hosts an annual Trade Event. This is your opportunity to meet and interact with shipping companies, bunker companies and other sorts of shipping companies. The program for this day offers potential trainees Trade Game, where potential trainees can try to negotiate contracts, and there will be food and opportunities to meet trainees from DSE. Registration is mandatory and you can read more about Trade Event here.
You can read more about Danish Shipping Education in our folder below. Please note that all academic material and information here may continuously be updated due to our renewal of level approval in 2025.