Seaport Consultants Canada Inc. - Port Market, Feasibility, Management, Operations and Privatization Consulting

Seaport Consultants Canada Inc. is a management consultancy that specializes in the port sector. The company’s main areas of focus are port privatization and concession contracts, traffic forecasting, market assessments and tariff studies, business development, port management and operational evaluations and processes, organization, economic evaluation, feasibility analysis and facility planning.

The company combines the professionalism of management consultants with the skills of senior port professionals who range from port managers to economists, marine engineers, operations and safety experts. Seaport’s specialists, most of whom have over 20 years of experience, have built reputations for the best port expertise in the world. These qualities make Seaport uniquely able to handle a broad range of complex assignments.

Seaport works in all areas of port activities and related shipping: dry bulk, break-bulk, container and cruise facilities. Seaport’s mission is to give its clients professional, cost effective and timely service. The company specializes in realistic and imaginative ways to make ports, terminals or shipping services more competitive and versatile.

Seaport frequently combines its port expertise with engineering and financial firms who specialize in build-operate-transfer port developments and works in association with international investors to provide port management services and expertise. This approach allows us to undertake port development projects and provide port management and operating services.

The principal of Seaport Consultants Canada Inc. is Terence Smyth, Maritime Economist

Our expertise includes, among other things:

Management & Operations

Advisory services to port authorities and terminal operating companies
Cargo handling systems and equipment

Operational audits and reviews

Operating procedures and work practices

Layout of terminals

Port and terminal management information systems

Terminal capacity and operational efficiency

Marketing strategies

Port and terminal management

Feasibility and Market Studies

Development of port tariffs

Port market studies and traffic forecasts

Port and terminal planning studies

Economic and financial analyses

Valuations of marine terminals

Litigation support

Privatization, mergers and acquisitions

Strategies for privatization

Concession and operating agreements for port terminals and stevedoring services

Searches for experienced terminal operators and stevedores

Selection of terminal operations contractors and stevedores

Commercial due diligence for port asset buyers

Financial analyses of concessions and advice on bid prices

Shipping Studies

Market reviews

Shipping cost analysis