Global Ports Forum presents – 2nd GPF Executive Workshop on Coal Terminals Supply Chain Developments, Trends and Operations, 20-21 Nov 25, Singapore

Dear colleagues

About The Workshop

This two days executive workshop is targeted to provide an overview of Coal terminals and their role as the most crucial link in logistics supply chain. There is a whole range of Coal Terminals and Ports from very basic barge loading / unloading systems connecting with anchorage operations to the most modern state-of-the-art coal loading / unloading terminals depending upon market size and volume to be handled. Ownership, operatorship and commercial aspect also vary based on users’ requirements and risk perceptions. While large scale coal miners, suppliers, users and traders tend to control the supply chain by using their own dedicated terminals, common user coal terminals are also equally important and these common user terminals cater to requirements of a number of users requiring terminal services for their coal handling requirements. This workshop targets to enable participants to understand comprehensive process to develop coal handling terminals from site selection to hinterland mapping, assessment of market potential, optimization of investment in cargo handling, storage and hinterland connectivity. The workshop also aims to provide steps involved in process of environment management, detailed project report, concession agreement and understanding other commercial terms for coal terminals. Another objective of the workshop is to prepare the participants to excel in operations of coal terminals for satisfaction of customers and all stake holders in order to achieve desired financial objectives.

Significance / relevance of the workshop

During the last two decades, trade volume of coal has shown a significant increase, reaching a level of over 1400 Million MT in the year 2014. Main factor attributable to the steady growth in coal trade is the economics of coal consumption as fuel in comparison with other alternative fuels. For the very same factor of economics, in a relatively low valued bulk commodity like coal, logistics cost is the most controllable element in the entire value chain. Effective and efficient logistics management makes the most significant contribution in the profitability of coal business value chain. At both exports and imports end of the logistics chain, it is essential to create optimum infrastructure and handling, storage and hinterland connectivity /evacuation capacity in line with volume of commodity to be handled. The workshop will use a number of examples of coal terminals in different parts of the world and provide a broad overview to enable participants to draw on best practices which can be adapted as per their own operative environment.

Deliverables

At the end of this workshop, the participants should be able to:

Understand significance and role of coal terminals in national and regional context
Learn the process of coal terminal development along with detailed steps involved at each stage of development
Develop comprehensive understanding about market, customer classification, expectation and aligning service levels & pricing with customer priorities.
Get deep knowledge about Coal logistics chain and total logistics cost comparison with calculation of sea freight, hinterland connectivity and land logistics costs.
Learn about Port operations and cargo handling systems for coal.
Understand financial calculations for coal terminal investment and operation.

Methodology

A combination of Class room Training, Interactive workshops, Individual and group case studies will be used. Participants will be provided with advance study / reading material on each topic covered under deliverables.

Who Should Attend

Government and public bodies responsible for Port and Terminal development; Port Authorities; Port / Terminal developers, Port / terminal operators; Port investors, Banks, PE, Financial Institutions; Port Service providers; Shipping Companies, Forwarders, Logistics companies, Intermodal Service providers; Port Equipment Suppliers; Port Designers / Planners; Port Consultants and all those connected with Coal trade – miners / suppliers / traders / users.

Structure

Session 1

Coal trade scenario: A global perspective of coal trade, shipping arrangements for coal cargo; coal ports and terminals and need for private sector participation in coal ports and terminals.

Session 2

Development process:

A systemic approach to step wise process of coal terminal development:

Stage 1 – Site selection, understanding statutory policies and requirement for coal terminal, prefeasibility study and data collection, preparing roadmap for project execution
Stage 2 – Modelling and studies of marine conditions, Rapid Environment Impact Assessment, Assessment of Business and Cargo potential with hinterland mapping and competition analysis
Stage 3 – Market assessment and price sensitivity, Detailed Environment Impact Assessment, Detailed Project Report
Stage 4 – Financial analysis and Financial closure
Stage 5 – Construction contracting and Equipment procurement

Session 3

Operational Excellence: Defining service parameters, Standard Operating Procedures, Work instructions and checklists as well as compliance review. Define Key Result Areas (KRAs) or Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Operations of coal terminals should cover all areas of port operations in addition, hinterland logistics which forms an integrated part of coal terminal services.

Session 4

Financial Modelling: Using financial modelling based on volume of coal traffic and assumed revenue / operating costs; a group case study will be conducted to demonstrate practical financial aspects and preparing price sensitivity exercise for all level of participants’ 360 degree understanding and applying the concepts on the job.

About the Course Director: (subject to final confirmation)

Mr. Mukesh Parikh is associated with Global Maritime Industry for over 40 years. He has a distinction of having hands on Maritime Industry experience with continuous involvement in Training and Development throughout his distinguished career.

He has been conducting a number of executive training programs on ports and terminals at Singapore, UAE, South Africa and other international locations, in addition to his current position of Adjunct Professor at Adani Institute of Infrastructure Management.

Mr. Mukesh Parikh has a post graduate degree in Management with specialization in Marketing and Finance. He attended one year training program Professional Shipping at Norwegian Shipping Academy, Oslo.

During his career of 18 years in the Commercial Shipping, he was associated with UNCTAD/UNDP as a Trainer and Course developer. He attended two weeks instructors’ Workshop (Training for Trainers) organized by UNCTAD / UNDP in collaboration with The Ministry of Transport and Ports in Malaysia at Penang Port Commission. He conducted a number of training Programs in the Middle East, South East Asia and Indian subcontinent including developing a training program on General Shipping Management for Arab Maritime Transport Academy, Sharjah, UAE.

A sound foundation of Shipping Industry and clear understanding of market and customer expectation and requirement from service providers enabled Mr. Mukesh Parikh to build the next phase of his career in Ports and Terminal Industry.

He worked with The Adani Group in Senior Management position for 10 years from the inception stage of Mundra Port in India and made a major contribution to set up Business Development and Marketing team as well as establish Standard Operating Procedures for the entire spectrum of Operations in the port. He successfully built marketing and operations teams and trained them.

Since July 2014, Mr. Mukesh Parikh has taken up advisory and consultancy role for The Maritime Industry. His assignments cover Business volume estimation and hinterland mapping with competition analysis, Revenue forecasts for the life of the project and financial modelling, investment optimization in line with market potential; Commercial and legal aspects of logistics, cargo handling, warehousing contracts; business excellence and standardization of operating procedures; Organization development, structuring and Manpower planning and training. He has also advised a number of clients about the Concession agreements and entering in to sub-concessions.

Thomas Ng

Thomas Ng has over 30 years of consulting experience in the ports and shipping industry. Thomas is known for developing innovative solutions for players within the ports & shipping industry, — in areas of investments advisory, port strategy, development, marketing, planning & redesign, customer services and port operations; and delivering superior results.

He is the Executive Chairman of The Global Ports Forum (GPF) since 2008. The Global Ports Forum is a platform where all ports stakeholders in the ecosystem- port customers, port authorities, port operators, port people, port suppliers & service providers are gathered together to discuss about issues furthering the interests of ports globally.

Thomas is well-respected in the ports & shipping circles — recognized for his in-depth industry knowledge and far-reaching personal industry network and linkages. Some of his recent port investments advisory work include ports in the Middle East, Africa, Southern Europe, South East Asia, Latin America, etc.

Given Thomas’ far-reaching personal port industry network and linkages, Thomas is often seek out by port investors and port privatization candidates all over the world for collaborative partnership.

Thomas is invited regularly as speaker & facilitator for Ports conferences, roundtable and executive programs and workshops.

He is the senior port & terminal training expert for the Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Singapore Cooperation Programme (SCP) for foreign ports officials for over 10 years. Recent programmes conducted by Thomas include the 5 days executive program in “Port Development and Competitiveness”, Singapore on 12-16 Dec 2016 where Thomas was the key trainer for over 60% of the whole executive program. Some other early SCP programmes that Thomas taught over 20 senior foreign government transport officials included the 2 weeks Singapore MFA Executive Programme in Logistics & Distribution Management on 28 Aug – 10 Sep 2007 & again on 6 Oct – 17 Oct 2008.

Thomas spoke recently at the Transport Intelligence Singapore 2013 Infrastructure panel, together with senior executives from the World Bank & UPS, the Container Depot Association Singapore Conference 2014 on ports and infrastructure, Tank Storage Asia Conference in 2015 and an exclusive Roundtable on Smart ports & ships and Internet of Things in Jun 2016.

On a professional level, Thomas founded the non-government voluntary organization — The Global Ports Council (GPC) in 2008. As of today, over 192 C-level executives globally presents themselves as members of our council. Our prestigious list of Council members are as follows:

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Thomas is also a veteran Chartered member (since 2001) of the Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport Singapore. He had served as a Board Member of the Singapore Branch of Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport for over 22 years till May 24.

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