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| Overview |
A brief description of The Seaport
Group |
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Market,
Planning and Feasibility Studies |
Port planning, cargo forecasts, and financial
analysis primarily under
Terence Smyth of
Seaport
Consultants Canada Inc. |
Container
Port Feasibility Study, Indonesia, 1994-1995
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Container traffic forecast,
review of port tariffs, development of a tariff schedule and review of container shipping |
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British Columbia Ports Strategy, British Columbia,
Canada 2004 - 2005 |
Traffic projections, competitiveness
assessment, of container technology review,
shipping review and action plan for infrastructure development. |
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Development and
Implementation of Port Tariff Schedule, Canada, 2004 - 2007 |
Review of tariff legislation, development of tariff structure
and rates, tariff competitiveness review and implementation strategy and schedule. |
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Development of Business Plan
for Khalifa Port, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 2006 |
Review and projection of traffic,
evaluation of port's regional competitiveness, development of tariff and development
of business plan. |
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Financial Evaluations of
Port of Vancouver Container Terminals, Canada, 2001
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2007 |
Estimates of equipment costs, operating costs, throughput charges
and return standards; financial model
development;
evaluations of port & terminal operator rates of return and lease
alternatives. |
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Forecast of Baltic Container
Port Market, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2007 |
Compilation of container traffic and shipping service data;
container traffic forecast ports; evaluation of competitiveness of Gothenburg
for transshipment. |
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Management and Operations |
Port management under
Gordon Payne
of
Seaport
Consultants Canada Inc. and port
operational evaluations under Kent Busk of Seaport Innovations. |
Port Master
Plan, Reform and Expansion Study,
Barbados, 1994-1997
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Port master plan, infrastructure assessment, project
financial evaluations, advisory to management, port MIS study, rewrite of port tariff
and maintenance review. |
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Proposals for Port Terminal Services,
Vancouver, Canada, 1997 to 2007 |
Proposals for: cruise terminal services; container terminal service in
break-bulk terminal; container terminal services to shipping line. |
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Litigation Support - Review of Intermodal
Transport System, USA, 2000 |
Examination of case
documents, evaluation of
transport system
capacity and preparation of expert witness report. |
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Organizational Review of
Port Terminal Company, Canada, 2003 |
Examination of effectiveness of existing organizational
structure and definition of roles and responsibilities of company’s key
personnel. |
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Reengineering and Organizations Redesign,
Port of Gothenburg 2007 – 2008 |
Optimization and
reengineering
container terminal
business processes and
procedures in connection with TOS implementation project. |
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Operations Processes and Procedures, Busan
Newport Container Terminal, 2008 |
Provision of detailed
process descriptions and development of procedures for operating the
terminal according to international best practice. |
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Overall Project Management for a 2 million
TEU terminal project, APMT Zeebrugge Belgium 2004 – 2005 |
Planning, procurement, and execution of building
a 2 million TEU straddle carrier terminal |
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Port Privatization, Mergers and
Acquisitions |
Port privatization, mergers
and acquisitions are supported by
Seaport
Consultants Canada Inc. and
Seaport Consultants
Asia. |
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Privatization
of Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD), Brazil, 1996 |
Evaluations of port management and operations
and Docenave.as part of valuation of company prior to privatization. |
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Bid for Container
Terminal Concession, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1998 – 2000 |
Forecast
of traffic for port, development of tender for concession, advice on bid
price and provision of operational and management expertise. |
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Bid to Acquire Container
Terminal Company, Vancouver, Canada, 2002 |
Strategic and marketing advice, acquisition strategy, estimates of equipment needs and costs,
and indicative measures of the company value. |
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Port of Bourgas Expansion
Project, Bulgaria, 2003 |
Assistance re port privatization options, definition of concession
packages for Bourgas and development of privatization strategy. |
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Development of Punta
Colonet Container Port Concession, Mexico, 2006 – 2007 |
Overall concession process, bidder consultations, concession title agreements
and bid documents, and proposal evaluation criteria. |
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Port Asset Acquisitions,
Various Locations, 2006 – 2008 |
Commercial due diligence on
acquisition projects involving container and break-bulk operations in
Europe and North America. |
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Strategic
Advice |
Strategic advice is provided by
David Wignall
of
Seaport Consultants
Asia. |
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Building a Team and
Developing 3rd Party Tank Terminal In Mediterranean |
Brought together a terminal operator and industrial developer to create an opportunity for development of major 3rd party tank terminal. |
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Leading the Development
of a Green Field Port, Shipyard and Special Economic Zone |
Pre-feasibility study of a port and SEZ in
Gujarat, India on behalf of a developer. |
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Search and Acquisition of
Shipyard in Southeast Asia |
Assistance to shipyard based in the Middle
East to make a strategic acquisition in Southeast Asia. |
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Due Diligence on a
Container Terminal Investment in the Mekong Delta |
Commercial and technical due diligence to
investment bank re funding a container terminal on a green
field site in Vietnam. |
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Confidential Review of
Marine Industry in India over Next Ten Years |
Review for major private equity firm of the
growth potential for marine services firms in India. |
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Container
Terminal Planning and Design |
Container terminal planning
is supported by
Seaport
Consultants Canada Inc. and
Seaport Innovations. |
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Evaluation of Conventional and Semi-Automated Container Terminal Development,
2007 |
Planning and costs for manual and semi-automated operating
systems and financial analyses of these systems. |
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Major Capacity Increase
of Existing RTG Operation |
Development plan for and design of advanced operations strategies and
simulations to will validate design and strategies. |
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Design of Rail Inland
Terminal, Kutno Poland, 2008 – 2009 |
Design for
RS, SC, RTG and Wide
Span operation.
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Design of Rail Inland
Terminal, City Deep South Africa, 2008 |
Redesigning terminal layout and operations processes and procedures, and
designing processes for the automated gate systems, truck
appointment/booking and rail booking systems. |
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Planning of Large Multi
Cargo and 2 Million TEU Container Operation, St Petersburg Russia 2007 |
Development of master plan with the aim of maximizing volume throughput. |
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Review of terminal design
in existing terminal, Pier 1 Durban, South Africa, 2007 |
Evaluation of operations difficulties and development of cost efficient
solution with the least operations disturbances. |
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Develop Layout and Design
Paper, Cape Town South Africa, 2007 – 2008 |
Development of optimum terminal layout and detailed design
paper/instructions. |
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Detailed Design of Durban
Container Terminal, South Africa, 2006 |
Provision of detailed terminal layout to achieve more stacking capacity,
provide high equipment productivities and provide easy handling of
external trucks. |
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| Intermodal
and Logistics |
Comparative transportation analysis, road and rail
systems, and site selection under
William Hall
of
Seaport
Consultants, Inc. |
Tenke Fungurume Mine
Logistics Study, Central and Southern Africa, 1997 – 1998
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Logistics analysis for a new copper/cobalt deposit in Congo to determine
most suitable and cost effective port through which to move mine
products. |
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Rio Tinto/Hamersley Iron, South American Iron Export Inland Navigation
Study, Argentina and Brazil, 2000 |
Analysis of river transport options for iron ore from Corumbá, Brazil to
a port near Buenos Aires. |
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US Department of
Agriculture, US-Mexico Trans-border Transportation Cost Analysis, US and Mexico,
2005 – 2006 |
Evaluation of
impacts
of border security processes post-September 11, 2001
on trans-border
shipping of US and Mexican goods . |
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Container Terminal
Technology, Automation and Operations IT Systems |
Container
terminal technology, automation, planning and operations IT systems under
Kent Busk of
Seaport Innovations. |
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Design and Planning of
Automated Container Terminal, APM Terminals, Virginia, USA, 2004 |
Designing and optimizing processes for a medium sized semi automated
terminal with unmanned rail-mounted gantries and mini straddle
carriers. |
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Advisory and
Supervision on First Automated Terminal in Korea, BNCT 2008 |
Second opinion on IT,
equipment specifications, and terminal design, new terminal design with
optimized terminal logistic and automated yard and description and
optimization of operations processes and procedures. |
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Advisor Concerning IT implementation for
IBM, Denmark 2006 |
Advice on project planning, execution and management,
and on cost efficient technology and automation. |
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Design and Planning of Unmanned Straddle
Carrier Terminal, 2005 |
Advisor on the design, planning and procurement of
IT-systems and handling equipment
for unmanned straddle carrier
terminal. |
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Specification and procurement of Terminal
Operating System (TOS), Gothenburg Sweden 2007 – 2008 |
Procurement of container terminal operating system,
a CFS operating system, and a rail and truck appointment system. |
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Testing and
Implementation of Terminal Operating System (TOS), Gothenburg Sweden
2008 – 2009 |
Advisor concerning Emulation testing tool and
assistance with testing and implementation of TOS. |
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Specification for Terminal Operating System
(TOS), City Deep South Africa 2008 – 2009 |
Design of operations
processes and lectures to the operations management on best practice
operations procedures and efficient administrative procedures.
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| Contact Us |
Contact information for Seaport Consultants, Inc.,
Seaport Consultants Canada, Inc., Seaport Innovations
and Seaport
Consultants, Asia
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| Project
List |
Complete list of projects |
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| Links |
Links to maritime sites, companies, and
ports |
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| Seaport
Publications |
Newsletter, guest papers and links to articles |
Newsletter Issue 1
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"Private Sector Investments in Indonesian Public
Ports" by
Terence Smyth |
Newsletter Issue 2
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"Forecasting Trade for Port Projects in the
Developing World" by
Terence Smyth |
Newsletter Issue 3
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"Transport
Modes in US-Mexico Agricultural Trade: Grains and
Perishables by Land and Ocean" by
William Hall |
Newsletter Issue
4
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"Managing
Terminal Capacity & Productivity" by
Kent Busk |
Newsletter Issue
5
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"Are Scandinavian Ports and Terminals Making Bad
Investments?"
by
Kent Busk |
Guest Papers
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Occasional guest papers by invitation |
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