charterer, which wants a contract of only 3 years. Based on the calculation of the cost of construction against the value of the contract, it is recommended that Ocean carriers should not go ahead with the construction. However, if a strategic alliance can be created with another carrier to lease their vessels, Ocean Carriers should accept the contract. What does Mary Linn has to consider? 1. Evaluation of the amount of expected returns over the life of the present contract. 2. Evaluation
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Entrepreneur 510 Case 1 Summary Le Xu 102-11-211 The Beach Carrier What is the nature of the product? What are its strengths and weaknesses? Beach Carrier is multifunctional bag in which a consumer can carry lots of things that will be used for a day while spending time on the beach. The bag can also be used to transport difficult-to-carry items, such as ski boots. The strengths of Beach Carrier are its big storage space, better mobility and lower price comparing with two other competitive
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Case Ocean Carriers Investment calculations If we make calculations assuming that Ocean Carriers is a U.S. firm subject to 35% taxation, net present value for the 39 million dollar investment is approximately -5,55 million dollars. Therefore on the basis of my calculation, the investment appears to be unprofitable. Obviously the conditions are far better if Ocean Carrier resides in Hong Kong and does not pay taxes for its overseas profits. In that scenario the investment has approximately net
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Michael Depersia Ocean Carriers needs to evaluate the decision to commission a new capesize carrier. Mary Linn, Vice President of Finance, needs to decide if this is a profitable decision for the company. In determining whether Ocean Carriers should purchase the new capesize carrier for the potential customer, we completed a net present value analysis of the project. In order to do this we need to take many things into account including, but not limited to, depreciation, opportunity costs and networking
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Case 1: Ocean Carriers We think that daily spot hire rate will likely decrease next year. There are two reasons. First, there are 63 new vessels scheduled for delivery in 2001 to increase the supply of vessel and only few old vessels need to be retired, while the demand will not increase because imports of iron ore and coal would remain stagnant over next two years. Second, exhibit 5 shows that avg. spot rate of 2000 was higher than the rate of previous years and avg. 3-yr charter rate. In addition
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Ocean Carriers According to Exhibit 3, the number of vessels is set to increase from 2001 to 2004. The iron ore shipment imports stay relatively the same amount, so we expect the daily spot rates to decrease over the next few years. The daily hire rates are driven by supply and demand. The historical changes in these rates have been related to the change of the bulk shipments. The supply is equal to the currents vessels plus new ships minus scrapings. Demand for dry bulk capesize is determined
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Analysis In order to make a recommendation to Mary Linn as to whether Ocean Carriers, Inc. should purchase a new ship we must first look at the net present value of the ship. In order to do this our team used the provided expected daily hire rates to calculate revenue which we expect to be for the lifetime of this vessel. The expected daily hire rate is the most accurate measure to determine future cash flows for the company. By using the annual operating days over the life of the new vessel we
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Memo OCEAN CARRIERS Date: January 2, 2001 To: Mary Linn, Vice President of Finance From: Thomas Harper Subject: Investment in New Capesize Bulk Ship After analyzing the commissioning of a new capsize ship for a three-year lease, my team has come to the conclusion that Ocean Carriers should move forward with the investment only if it is built and registered in our Hong Kong office. There were key assumption my team and I made in our analysis and they are as follows:
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Ocean Carriers Inc. was approached in January of 2001 with a contract proposal for the leasing of one of their ships for a term of 3 years beginning in 2003. Ocean Carriers currently has no ship to accommodate the customer. To commission the construction of a new vessel would take 2 years from start to completion. The average rate in the spot market is $22,000 per day. Ocean Carriers deployed a younger fleet than average carriers and generally earned a 15% premium over the average daily rate
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Ocean Carriers Ocean Carriers Inc. was approached in January of 2001 with a contract proposal for the leasing of one of their ships for a term of 3 years beginning in 2003. Ocean Carriers currently has no ship to accommodate the customer. To commission the construction of a new vessel would take 2 years from start to completion. The average rate in the spot market is $22,000 per day. Ocean Carriers deployed a younger fleet than average carriers and generally earned a 15% premium over the average
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