Seaport Consultants - Port and Transportation Consulting - Port Operations and Management Consulting

Several Seaport personnel have been port and marine terminal managers in past careers - often 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 operating concessions and contract negotiations.

This field is a specialty of Seaport Consultants Canada Inc. whose principals and personnel have a total of many decades of expertise in port and terminal operations. Examples of the wide range of projects accomplished by Seaport in this area include:

Container, cargo and cruise terminal operations assessments
Terminal staffing studies
Terminal automation, information systems and new technology
Port privatization strategies
Facility start-up planning
Contract negotiations
Development of agreements for port terminal concessions

Some more detailed examples of recent projects are shown below:

Barbados Port Reform and Expansion Study

An Inter-American Development Bank study for Delcan International Corporation of reforming and expanding the Port of Bridgetown, including a master plan, restructuring, and implementation of the recommended action plan.

Cruise Terminal Stevedoring Study, Vancouver

Assessment of stevedoring costs at Canada Place Cruise Ship Terminal and Ballantyne Terminal. Modeling financial performance and profitability of cruise operations.

R. Gordon Payne
Seaport Consultants Canada Inc. Principal
gpayne@seaport.com

Seaport's port operations practice is led by R. Gordon Payne, a stevedoring and marine terminal executive with over 30 years experience. Prior to becoming a principal of Seaport Consultants Canada Inc,, Gordon Payne led Empire Stevedoring's coast-wide port activities and played a key role in the development of Vancouver's container business. Empire Stevedoring Co. Ltd is one of Canada's largest stevedoring and terminal operating companies which now operates as Terminal Systems Inc.

Past positions include President & C.E.O. of International Stevedoring Services Ltd., and the founder, President & C.E.O. of Meridian Stevedoring Co. Other senior management positions in the British Columbia stevedoring / marine terminal industry include General Manager of the Vanterm Container Terminal, and Manager of the Centennial Container Terminal and multi purpose break-bulk terminal, and the CPR and CN Terminal in Vancouver, B.C. Mr. Payne began his career as a deck officer in the British merchant marine. He is a graduate of King Edward VII Nautical College, London, England.

Gordon Payne has extensive expertise in the container, CFS, break-bulk, intermodal, and cruise industries, including privatization projects and contract negotiations. He has conducted numerous port studies in Canada, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Hong Kong, Singapore, Barbados, Tanzania, Mozambique, South Africa and Venezuela. He has also provided litigation support in the port sector as an expert witness.