Financial Evaluations and Operations Cost Estimations

Seaport Group’s resource model is activity-based, which considers a large number of factors, variables and constraints in the process of determining the resource requirements, such as:

• Volume development
• Cargo split and modality split
• Staff (operations, maintenance, security, admin & finance, …) requirements will consider local labour agreements with regards to: manning practices; shift change procedures, rules related to breaks / pauses / resting; shift lengths; port/terminal opening hours; handling equipment productivity, and much more.
• Handling equipment requirements will consider maximum utilisation, equipment our for preventative maintenance, equipment productivity (which are determined by the operations strategies, grounding strategies, shift changes, etc.).

Example: below graphs depicts manning requirement from a port / terminal transforming from manned SC to ASC/ShC operation (as seen at Container Terminal Burchardkai, Hamburg). – Note that, such graphs are produced for multiple staff groups and departments

Seaport Group’s operations cost model is an activity-based cost model, which considers a large number of factors, variables and constraints in the process of determining the cost, such as:

• Volume development
• Cargo split and modality split
• Annual investments and reinvestments in infrastructure, super-structures, handling equipment, IT, etc.
• Staff / Labour costs considers direct and indirect labour costs (social contributions, taxes, insurance, training, etc.), resource requirements (as explained above), inefficient hours, shift change procedures, and many more.
• Energy consumption (handling equipment, facility illumination, reefers, buildings, etc.),
• Preventative and corrective maintenance (handling equipment, pavement, buildings, power infrastructure, etc.).
• And more…..

Example: below graphs depicts annual CAPEX/OPEX from a port / terminal transforming from manned SC to ASC/ShC operation (as seen at Container Terminal Burchardkai, Hamburg).

Seaport Group’s financial models are also activity-based and gets their input from the Resource and Cost Estimation Model, and considers:

• Input from Resource Models
• Input from Cost Estimation Models
• Volume development
• Cargo split and modality split
• Risk profile
• And much more…..

Seaport Group strive at providing the highest possible quality of the project evaluations, and to assess the efficiency and effectiveness of a project in achieving its intended results, and to assess the relevance and sustainability of outputs as contributions to medium-term and longer-term outcomes.

Seaport Group assist port authorities, operators, and other investors in developing business cases, presented in a well-structured written document. Because of our long industry expertise, we will capture quantifiable as well as non-quantifiable characteristics, and include background of the project, expected business benefits, the options considered (with reasons for rejecting or carrying forward each option), the expected costs of the project, a gap analysis, and the expected risks.

Seaport Group combine the expertise in financial evaluations our expertise in port / terminal operations cost modelling. – Our senior consultants, responsible for economic evaluations, have been working for global operators and investors and have been evaluating +50 investment projects over their carrier. And, our operations modellers have modelled multiple larger and smaller ports / terminals, be these small RS operations or larger state of the art automated facilities.