Seaport Consultants - Port and Transportation Consulting

Seaport has extensive experience in port planning, port feasibility studies, trade and traffic forecasts, and conceptual design of port and other maritime transport projects. Port project planning experience and maritime consulting capability is found throughout the Seaport Group. Port traffic forecasts and financial analysis, litigation support and port privatization are particular specialties of Seaport Consultants Canada Inc. Seaport may serve as sole or prime contractor, or may subcontract to international engineering and management consulting firms.

Our worldwide experience as maritime consultants includes:

Port master plans
Cargo forecasts
Tariff studies
Cost-benefit analyses
Financing strategies
Litigation support in the port and maritime sectors
Port privatization

Some more detailed examples of recent projects are illustrated in the two examples shown:

Privatization of Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD)

Seaport joined the Merrill Lynch - NM Rothschild et al. Consortium study of privatizing CVRD, the Brazilian state mining and industrial holding company.

Bojonegara Container Port Feasibility Study

Seaport's roles included a container traffic forecast, a review of port tariffs, and a survey of container shipping.

Terence Smyth
Seaport Consultants Canada Inc. Principal
tsmyth@seaport.com

Seaport's management consulting practice is led by Terence Smyth, P.Eng., CMC, the founder of Seaport Consultants Canada Inc. Mr. Smyth is a maritime economist and management consultant with over 25 years of experience in the evaluation of port, other transport and resource projects. He has managed and conducted feasibility studies of ocean transportation, shipping terminals, railways, coal and industrial mineral mines, pulp and paper mills, manufacturing plants, and computer system installations.

His experience includes market surveys for industrial commodities, development of models for economic and financial analyses, and reviews of industrial technology. He has also provided litigation support in the port sector as an expert witness. Mr. Smyth has been responsible for projects in North America, South-East Asia, the Middle East, Latin America the Caribbean and Africa. He has conducted many projects funded by the international development banks. Mr. Smyth holds degrees from the University of British Columbia and Stanford University. He is a registered Professional Engineer in British Columbia, and a member of the Canadian Association of Management Consultants (CMC), the Association of Professional Economists of B.C., the Canadian Association for Business Economics, the Vancouver Board of Trade and the International Association of Maritime Economists.