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Operator’s Certificate

  • Professional Program

The Operator's Certificate is a very practical training targeting junior operators and charterers who want to accelerate their training process as well as other professionals and young graduates interested in moving into the commodity field.

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Overview

The programme has been created with a hands-on approach: it follows the life cycle of a commodity trade, thus providing participants with a balanced theory-practice grasp of the various components of trading and shipping operations.

The programme allows participants to understand the life cycle of a trade from the operational side on a 4 months period.

We expect that, through this training, participants will ultimately be best placed to rapidly gain in experience, making the most out of the various real-life cases that they will be confronted with.

The Certificate is composed of 12 modules all taught in English. The modules take place on Friday evenings and Saturday mornings, so as not to interfere with the professional activity of the participants and give them enough time to assimilate and eventually practice what has been learnt in class.

This training is open to highly motivated candidates with an excellent level in English and Microsoft Office

Key facts

  • 94 %
    overall satisfaction rate
  • 80 %
    success rate
  • 50 %
    students with an industry background
  • 80 %
    employment seekers hired after completing the course

Testimonials

  • Martin Burrus

  • Teslim Yildirim

  • Igor Stoevski

    Middle Distillates Operations
    Attending the Operator’s Certificate courses enabled me to develop new and relevant skills but also to establish sustainable relationships with oil industry professionals.
  • Marine de Geoffroy

    Legal Counsel
    As a Swiss lawyer working in private practice, completing the Operator’a Certificate was the trigger for me specializing in trading and shipping, which then led me to pursue the specialization further in the UK and China. As of August 2015, I have been working as Legal Counsel at Metinvest International SA, an iron ore and steel trading company.

Programme

  • Introduction into Commodity Trading, Documents & INCOTERMS
    Commodities
  • Shipping, Chartering
  • Field trip to a major port
  • Introduction to Trade Finance
  • LC and other payment terms
  • Trading Contracts
  • Shipping operations, Demurrage and Laytime
  • Physical risks & Insurance
  • Law & Dispute Resolution Schemes
  • Trading Operations I – Execution flows
  • Trading Operations II – Role of the Operator & Troubleshooting
  • Course Review & Practical case study – Trading game (graded in class)

Lecturers

Arturs Evele

Sturzenegger & Co

Head of Demurrage

Carine Albertini

Sahara Group

Head of Operations

Edisher Chiaureli

Riverlake Shipping

Operations Manager

Jean-Matthieu Sternberg

Sternberg Consulting

Oil Consultant

Matthieu Delorme

Saybolt International BV

Global Agribusiness Director

Olivier Thyssen

BCGE

Head of Credit & Project Management, Global Commodity Finance

Pierre-Edouard Dolhen

Louis Dreyfus Company

Head of EMEA Derivatives

Simeon Lachev

Weromett SA

Managing Director

Vesselin Vassiliev

Bunge SA

Freight Claims Handler

Vladimir Martynov

Gunvor SA

Global Head of Sanctions Compliance

Yan Blitshteyn

NLMK Trading SA

Trade Finance Specialist

Registration

  • August – December 2025

    Geneva, Switzerland

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    CHF 7400.- / CHF 6400.- for SUISSENÉGOCE members

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Period August - December 2025
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