A Brief Overview of LABIDCO and the Business Case

As the Harborco representative my objective was to obtain the right to build the port with at least 55 points as to make a profit. I managed to make a profit of 57 which while not

Furthermore, the Ireland government should improve its business by making an available site at low cost. Besides expanding the company’s market share, it would reduce over capacity of current production plant. Another important advantage is that the European plant may create competitive advantage by offering a competitive price to customers.

Maritime access refers to the physical capacity of the port to accommodate ship daily operations. It is including the tidal range as normal ship operations are not able to handle variations of more than 3 meters. Moreover, channel and berth depths have become vital for maritime operations due to the growing ship size and to accommodate modern and advance cargo ships. A standard Panamax ship of 65,000 deadweight tons needs more than 12 meters of depth. Almost 70 percent world ports found themselves only have depths of less than 10 meters thus are unable to accommodate bigger ships and provide maritime access to modern ship operations. However, Jawaharlal Nehru port’s channel depth is 13.1 meter and 14.2 meter in outer harbour channel. Channel width 370 meters at straight reach and 460 meters at the berths while berth’s depth is 16.5 meters. The port is able to handle over 500 feet in length of vessel

5. Mooring and pontoon berthing for up to 350 vessels, up to 45ft in length and 2m draft. This will require dredging to a depth of 2.5m to allow access to the pontoons for larger vessels.

It has been said that the Port of Los Angeles is a “massive heart, pumping what the country needs, or wants, through this major rail artery, which separates into thousands of smaller vessels”.(pg29) The Docks by Bill Sharpsteen gives the reader an insider’s look at how important the port is to the United States. Throughout the book Bill interviews with people who work different areas of the port and some that are connected upstream or downstream of the supply chain in some way. He explains the history of the port and how jobs were created and how they evolved over the years. The people who were interviewed explained a little bit of their background on why they work that specific job.

Three marine terminals operated by the Virginia Port Authority and located in Norfolk, Newport News, and Portsmouth, serve the region as one of the busiest general cargo ports on the East Coast with a 50 foot deep, year-round, ice-free harbor. APM Terminals has opened Phase I of its $450 million, 575-acre facility in Portsmouth. This is the country’s first privately developed container terminal and one of the largest and most advanced container facilities on the North American East Coast. Over 95% of the world’s shipping lines call on the Port of Hampton Roads, linking Virginia to more than 380 ports in over 115 locations

The city of Port Prospect, which has around 50,000 inhabitants decided to follow the privatization path by contracting out the majority of its services. The city Of Port Prospect now is ready to analyze two different possibilities to privatize itself.

Moving on, when it comes to business every company as a goal that they would like to reach at in the future when it comes to making improve and to grow their firms. As a consultant you have to list what areas the management team of the firm plans on working on in the future of their firm. According to the article called “Port everglades master plan “when it comes to cruise industry located on the lands of the harbor the organization of Port of Everglades would like to work on increasing the amount of individuals that take their cruises leaving the port. For example, the firms goal is to increase the number of passenger to five point six million by year 2033. The company is also trying to improve the number of containerized cargo that they receive

This case analysis explores the possibility of Breezy, a leading supplier of carburators and air filters in North America, the possibility of developing offshore busines in countries where car manufacturing is growing. The report is structured as follows: First, there are five important questions that Breezy must consider and ask itself before developing a relationship with a new customer. After Breezy decides to go offshore, it will have to go through the negotiating process, which involves five steps. Breezy then, must have capabilities of how an offshore business is organized, consider the many different costs and risks involved in the implementation and decide how it will finance the project. The report also talks

The Port of Long Beach is the second-busiest seaport in the United States and a key transportation hub in the global trade marketplace. More than $180 billion worth of cargo moves through the Port every year – everything from clothing and furniture to machinery and petroleum. East Asian trade accounts for about 90 percent of the shipments through the Port. The Port’s top trading partners are China, South Korea, Hong Kong and Japan.

The mission of the Texas Ports Association is to propel the improvement of Texas ports, empowering them to contend with ports outside Texas and accordingly fortify the economy of Texas. Perceiving the significance of ports to the Texas economy, the Texas Strategic Economic Development Planning Commission in 1998 suggested that ports be given due thought in its 10-year statewide arrangement. This incorporates:

Theranos is a medical laboratory and health service Company that is based in California. The company was established in 2003 by a young lady by the name Elizabeth Holmes who had the passion of transforming the health care industry to better. The main focus of the company was to decrease the size of small blood sample that is taken out of the patient. The company developed a method where a drop of blood was the maximum size of the blood sample that was used to give many results. This means that the blood sample is a drop of blood that is taken out of figure and the patient is supposed to give out the blood only ones because the drop of blood is used in all the other testing irrespective of their number. On top of that, the company has improved on the efficiency of its operations, it has reduced the cost of blood test dramatically and it has made the blood test process to be faster.

5. From the firm’s point of view, the policy of not operating ships over 15 years old is designed to protect against uncertainty and to pursue a higher premium over the market by having more relatively young vessels rather than old ships. However, based on our calculation of the NPV of the project, under the assumption that the company will continue to operate the ships until the 25 years of service, the results

This report is a Bachelor thesis of the programme “International Business and Languages “of the University of Applied Science, Windesheim. This export plan is written for Idreco B.V., an international dredging construction company located in Doetinchem, internationally active in the sand- and gravel and dam cleaning industry. Idreco manufactures dredgers and the dredgers are custom-designed products.

Every firm would love to invest in shipping industry due to large profits involved. However this would seem easy but practically it is lot more difficult and virtually impossible to establish in container line business. The problem pertains to large capital investments in form of vessel and container procurements and risk of operating vessels. Even if we take the examples of biggest companies