This study can be taken by students who have finished the undergraduate level of PM study. Students are educated and trained to become highly professional staff within the field of maritime affairs in the application of scientific disciplines allowing acquisition of recent knowledge on modern transport technologies, ship management based on application of quality management (TQM) irrespective of whether it is the case of ships as organisational subsystems, or shipping companies representing units of joint subsystems. Students investigate the dynamics of behaviour of technical, technological, organisational, economic, information and ecological subsystems of maritime transport.

After finishing graduate studies students acquire competences of top-rank participation in managing business organisational systems.

The study programme of undergraduate and graduate levels of PM study includes all the topics laid down in the STCW Convention so that after finishing these levels, students can highest officer ranks in Croatian and international merchant navies.