British Columbia – Vancouver – Vancouver
Corporation
www.seaport.com
British Columbia
Vancouver
Vancouver
Corporation
active
Seaport Consultants specializes in project planning and
management, including feasibility studies, port master planning,
and privatization analysis. We provide operations management
consulting to port operators and conduct wide-ranging logistics
studies evaluating transportation alternatives.
Country of Ownership: Canada
Year Established: 1990
Exporting: Yes
Primary Industry (NAICS): 541990 - All Other Professional, Scientific and Technical Services
Primary Business Activity: Services
Total Sales ($CDN): $200,000 to $499,999
Export Sales ($CDN): $200,000 to $499,999
Services:
Port planning and feasibility studies, Port operations consulting, Intermodal and logistics consulting
Sector:
International Capital Projects: Corporate Expertise: -----------------------
Port privatization.
Proj: Bojonegara container port feasibility study.
Country: Indonesia
Contribution: Container traffic through the Port of Tanjung Priok
(adjacent to Jakarta) grew at some 20 to 25 percent a year
for the last decade. The Government of Indonesia,
Indonesia Port Corporation II (which operates Tanjung
Priok) and private Indonesian investors decided to develop
a new, private container port in the Bojonegara area west
of Jakarta. These parties in turn engaged a consortium of
Australian companies to investigate the feasibility of
building the container port under a build-operate-transfer
contract. The Australian consortium retained Seaport
Consultants Canada Inc. and PT Dwipantara Transconsult (an
Indonesian consultancy) to assist with the feasibility
study. Seaports role included: A container traffic forecast. The study involved gathering
port traffic and national economic data, reviewing the
port hinterland, a forecast of total and container traffic
for western Java, and an evaluation of the Bojonegara
terminal's competitiveness with Tanjung Priok.
Development of a ministerial position paper on the
rationale for port development at Bojonegara.
A review of Indonesian and regional port tariffs, and
development of a tariff schedule for the new port.
A review of world, regional and local container shipping
to choose the design ship for the port.
The project forecast that container traffic will continue
to grow at high rates, although at growth rates below
those of the recent past. Notwithstanding that Tanjung
Priok received about half of its container throughput as
feeders from Singapore and much of the residual traffic
was in second-generation vessels in the intra-Asian
trades, the study concluded that the new port should be
for post-Panamax ships. Traffic development in Indonesia
had reached the point where major shipping lines may add
western Java ports to the major Asia/Europe and Asia/west
coast USA trades and feed traffic to them from other
Indonesian ports.
Proj: Concession for Dar es Salaam Container Terminal
Country: Tanzania, Un. Rep
Contribution: Assistance and advice for bid for container terminal
concession. Seaport brought together ICTSI, a major
international container terminal operating company, and a
Tanzanian firm, Vertex Financial Services, to bid for the
container terminal operating concession in the Port of Dar
es Salaam, an important port on the east coast of Africa.
Seaport also assisted ICTSI and its local partner in their
bid for the concession. The work involved gathering cost
and operational data, preparing national and regional port
traffic forecasts, evaluating the concession's financial
performance, developing tender documents for the
concession under internationally-competitive bidding, and
advising on the ultimate bid price. In October 1999, the
partnership was successful in its bid for the concession.
Canadian International Port Services Inc., a sister
company of Seaport Consultants Canada Inc., provided
executive and operational expertise to the partnership
during the mobilization and initial hand-over period of
the terminal from governmental to private operations.
Proj: Initial Public Offering of Pacific Ports Company
Country: China, P. Rep.
Contribution: Traffic forecast for the Port of Nanjing. Fairyoung had
entered a joint venture to operate the Nanjing Huining
terminal at Xinshengwei, the foreign trade area of the
Port of Nanjing. Seaport's work involved data gathering in
Nanjing and compilation of statistics on economy of
Jiangsu Province. Seaport met with the Jiangsu Province
Ministry of Communications, State Planning Commission and
Commission of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade, China
Chamber of International Commerce, Nanjing Commission of
Foreign Economic Relations and Trade, and two Nanjing-area
Economic Technical Development Zones (industrial estates).
We evaluated the economics of container transshipment via
Shanghai and Hong Kong, intermodal transport of high-value
cargoes between Nanjing and Shanghai, and container
transport on the Yangtze River. We reviewed the
implications for Port of Nanjing container traffic of
Shanghai container port developments and introduction of
linehaul vessel calls, creation of the Shanghai
International Trade Centre, transshipment cargo
restrictions imposed by the Chinese national government,
and opening of the Nanjing - Shanghai expressway.
Proj: Port of Bourgas
Country: Bulgaria
Contribution: Port of Bourgas expansion project and port concessions.
Seaport provided port management expertise to assess the
impact of a new bulk terminal on the future operations of
the port. Seaport also evaluated options for the transfer
of cargo handling activities from the Port of Bourgas
Authority, a public corporation, to the private sector as
operating concessions. Seaport€™s work included: • Evaluating the ability of the Port of Bourgas (the
model port for privatization in Bulgaria) to achieve a
competitive environment with private sector participation.
• Evaluating the port privatization policies of the
Government of Bulgaria and providing assistance to the
Government to assess the options for private sector
participation in ports.
• Advising the Government of Bulgaria on regulatory
changes to facilitate private sector participation and to
implement a uniform strategy for the privatization of port
activities at all Bulgarian ports.
• Identifying areas of improvement within the Port
of Bourgas necessary as a prelude to privatization and
recommending the scope of activities for private sector
involvement in line with the government€™s privatization
policies.
• Evaluating the options for breaking up the port
into port concession packages and recommending the port
concession packages to be privatized.
• Developing a privatization strategy and a roadmap
of the process to be followed by the Government of
Bulgaria to transform port activities into port
concessions to be operated by the private sector.
Proj: Privatization of Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD).
Country: Brazil
Contribution: Seaport joined the Merrill Lynch - N M Rothschild et. al.
consortium study of privatizing CVRD, the Brazilian state
mining and industrial holding company. The consortiums
client was the National Economic and Social Development
Bank of Brazil (BNDES).
Seaport was responsible for reviews of the ports of
Tubarão and Ponta da Madeira, and Navegação Vale do Rio
Doce S/A (Docenave), CVRDs bulk shipping company. The work
involved evaluating the management and operations of the
ports, and modeling the ports financial performances over
the next 15 years as part of the valuation exercise. The
study also involved detailed financial evaluation and
modeling of Docenave.
As measures of the scale of the project, CVRD was worth
some US$10 billion in total and the share offering is
US$3.4 billion. The ports of Tubarão and Ponta da Madeira
handled between them over 100 million tonnes a year of
cargo (Tubarão is the worlds largest bulk loading port).
Docenave, then the tenth largest bulk shipping company in
the world in terms of beneficially-owned dead-weight
tonnage, transported over 30 million tonnes a year of bulk
and semi-bulk cargoes.
Proj: Surabaya Port Development
Country: Indonesia
Contribution: Traffic forecast for major port as part of a feas
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