discount rate, commissioning a capsize carrier for 15 years and then scrapping it as is company policy would ultimately yield a NPV of (1,252,916). However, if Ocean Carriers decided to commission its ship for 25 years, then the NPV would be a positive 368,557. Since current company policy is to scrap ships after 15 years, management should look at these numbers in detail and consider revising its dated policy. As mentioned above, this recommendation hinges on a 9% discount rate. If our cost of debt
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My decision is that we should ship and unload in the multiples of 100 rail cars from Winnipeg to Calgary and 50 rail cars from Winnipeg to Toronto. This strategy will result in annual savings of $ 825,000 per year. Production/Ship-to | % | MT | | | Bakeries | 70% | 350,000 | | | Two Mills (Calgart+Toronto) | 30% | 150,000 | | | Total Mill Annual Capacity(MT) | 100% | 500,000 | | | | | | | | | | Metric Tons | Ship to destinations | % | Per year
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Basic preparation towards this kind of situation or incidents can be learned from school and it might be a guide for the student so that if they go onboard the ship, they must be physically, mentally, and emotionally prepared. A person may experience trauma onboard ship for many reasons: they might have been experience such as fire onboard ship, piracy, and collision. Piracy is one of the most dangerous and life-threatening incident that causes a larger effect through the person memory that leads into
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stability process Scantling When a new ship is designed, one of the primary steps involved in the development of the concept, is designing its General Arrangement and allocating proper spaces according to the requirements of the owner and functionality of the ship. It is up to the naval architect to decide on the ship’s general arrangement, depending on many design constraints that are mentioned in the technical specifications of the contract. Since almost all ships have something unique in their general
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A little fleet of ships would always be remembered crossing the Atlantic to reach the America named the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria. Christopher Columbus got permission and funds from the King and Queen of Spain ,so Columbus ordered the three ships to be used during the voyage to get to the Indies. The biggest and slowest ship out of the fleet was the Santa Maria and became Columbus’ flagship. The Santa Maria was built in Pontevedra, Galicia ,so it was sometimes called the La Gallega, meaning
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A major artery of the Coast Guards support mission is dying off at an alarming rate. The Food Service (FS) rating retention numbers are declining faster than any other rate in the Coast Guard. Aside from being a less visible and publically rewarding job than some other higher profile ratings, the FS rate could render more support, longer enlistments and general job satisfaction by looking at some of the root problems which ultimately result in significantly declining numbers. Having a generalized
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The elegant and scenic environment that is Longboat Key offers breathtaking beaches, stunning scenery, translucent waters, and cultural activities. Located along the central west coast of Florida, situated within two counties-Manatee in the north and Sarasota in the south, Longboat Key is just south of Anna Maria Island. The original inhabitants of Longboat Key are believed to be the Timucan and Caloosa Native American tribes. In the late 1530s, the Spanish explorer Hernando DeSoto ventured into
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Question: A band of 10 pirates are going to disband. They have divided up all of their gold, but there remains one GIANT diamond that cannot be divided. To decide who gets it, the captain puts all of the pirates (including himself) in a circle. Then he points at one person to begin. This person steps out of the circle, takes his gold and leaves. The person on his left stays in the circle, but the next person steps out. This continues with every second pirate leaving until there is only one left.
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The last voyage of the Morro Castle took place on September 6, 1934, when the ship left Havana. Captain Willmott was trying to out race a storm but it unfortunately had caught up with the ship. The night of September 7, the night before the scheduled docking, Captain Willmott skipped dinner he had planned with guests and retired to his cabin. Crew members found Captain Willmott’s body in his bathroom when the Chief Engineer tried to alert the Captain of a boiler problem but couldn’t get a hold of
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a controlled environment, but in a competitive environment, competing plans collide, creating unexpected situations. The following are five of the 13 principles of Sun Tzu in the Art of War: 1. “Know your enemy and know yourself and in 100 battles you will never be in peril.” Nobody wins his war without knowing himself and his enemies. Unless you know your capacities and the resources available to you, you cannot set your goals and achieve it. In the business world, a manager must assess
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