Port and Terminal Management

Several Seaport personnel have been port and marine terminal managers in past careers - many with high-level executive expertise. Their skills enable us to bring pragmatic knowledge to port and terminal management, provide a solid view of port and terminal operations in a wide variety of development projects, and give our clients the benefit of their long experience in port and terminal operations, the structuring of operating concessions and contract negotiations.

Port and terminal management is a specialty of Seaport Consultants Canada Inc. and Seaport Innovations whose principals and personnel have a total of many decades of expertise in port and terminal operations. Seaport offers services in the following areas:

Advisory services to port authorities
Reviews of corporate organizations
Reviews and design of operating methodology and processes
Terminal staffing studies
Facility startup planning
Contract negotiations

Port and Terminal Operations

The Seaport Group has extensive experience in operations optimisations and process design.

Analytical and practical experience resides in Seaport Innovations and Seaport Consultants Canada. Operations planning is a specialty of both Seaport Innovations and Seaport Canada whereby the focus is on sharing best practices regarding:

Operations organization
Operations strategy
Operation processes
Planning of rail, gate, yard and waterside operation
Local union regulations/rules
Operations master planning

An operations master plan typically consists of a description of the operation processes and information flow in sufficient detail to provide appropriate information to the suppliers of TOS supplier, GDPS, automatic gate, and truck appointment system. This allows the IT-systems and automation technology to support the best practice operation based on local conditions.

Projects in port and terminal management:

Port Master Plan, Reform and Expansion Study, Barbados, 1994 to 1997

Proposals for Port Terminal Services, Canada, 1997 to 2007

Litigation Support - Review of Intermodal Transport System, USA, 2000

Organizational Review of Port Terminal Company, Canada, 2003

Projects in port and terminal operations:

Reengineering and Organizations Redesign, Port of Gothenburg 2007 – 2008

Advisory and Supervision on First Automated Terminal in Korea, BNCT, 2008

Overall Project Management for a 2 million TEU terminal project, APMT Zeebrugge Belgium 2004 – 2005