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After completing your post graduation in shipping and port management, you can find employment opportunities in public and private organisations. Railways and defence departments under the government, shipping corporations, transportation and logistics companies, manufacturing firms, import and export trading agencies and ports all around the Indian coasts and the world recruit port managers.
The working hours in port management can be long and demanding (often around 12 hours a day). Your work may include communicating with officials of different government departments, commercial establishments and the local community, managing operations in the port, overseeing services and activities related to shipping and port and planning the finances.
The career growth in the port managers professional life depends on the tenure and the type of skills you are able to hone over a period of time. After passing with a post-graduate degree while you start as a port manager, with growing experience and hard work, you can move up to the level of port director, who manages more than one port.