David Wignall

David Wignall
Principal
Seaport Consultants Asia
dwignall@seaport.com

David Wignall is the founder and Managing Director of Seaport Consultants Asia, a Singapore-based company that offers strategic advice, infrastructure development advice, training and experts to ports, terminals and shipyards. The company specializes in project planning and management including feasibility studies, port master planning, and privatization projects..

Before founding Seaport Consultants Asia, David Wignall was the Head of BMT in Ports and Logistics, a Division of BMT Group. In this role, he was instrumental in growing their Asian operations from start-up to more than one hundred professionals throughout Asia Pacific. He was also a member of the senior management team of the BMT Group. His area of responsibility was the development and operation of port and terminal facilities.

David has been responsible for directing research and consulting studies and providing management support for marine assets throughout the world. This has included work in: China, USA, United Kingdom, India, Russia, Germany, Spain, Thailand, UAE, Yemen, Brazil, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Kenya and Nigeria.

The International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea, The World Bank and the Asian Development Bank have recognized David's expertise by appointing him to undertake independent studies. He has acted as an expert witness for courts in many jurisdictions. Of particular note was evidence for a court in New York on anti-trust claims related to price fixing in ports and shipping.

David has presented more than thirty conference papers detailing projects and management research in the ports and shipping sector.

Early in his career David worked with one of Europe's leading port design consultancies.