Ocean Carriers Analysis Date: 8/29/2007 TO: MS MARY LINN CC: PROF. TOM MILLER FROM: RYAN DALE SEELKE RE: DECISION ON CAPE SIZE CARRIER PRIORITY: Ms Mary Linn, After careful cash flow analysis and a discount rate (WACC) of 9%, commissioning a capsize carrier for 25 years is the only appropriate option for our firm. However, if the discount were instead 10%, both options would fail the NPV test by yielding negative results. I make this recommendation after thorough analysis
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Ocean Carriers’ Case Spring 2012 Ocean Carriers Ocean Carriers Inc. owned and operated capsized dry bulk carriers that carried iron ore worldwide. The company’s vessels were typically chartered on a “time charter” basis for a period of years. The charterer paid Oceans Carriers a daily hire rate for the entire length of the contract, determined what cargo the vessel carries, and controlled where the vessel loaded and unloaded. Ocean Carriers supplied a vessel that complied
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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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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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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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Ocean carriers has been approached by a customer who is offering attractive terms for a three year ship lease. However, there is no existing ship that meets the customer’s needs, so Mary Linn, Vice President of Finance, must decide if we should purchase a new ship that will meet the customer’s demands for $39 million. Since the lease is only for three years we need to analyze if by continuing to operate the ship for other charterers will be a profitable project for Ocean Carriers. It is the company’s
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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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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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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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