case of Ocean Carriers, protagonist Mary Linn must decide upon the best alternative regarding the building of a capesize carrier that a client has requested. Her choices in the matter include: 1) Building the ship and salvaging it after 15 years for a $5 million profit 2) Building the ship and keeping it in operation for its full 25 year operating life 3) Denying the request and not building the ship at all. Through my research I’ve found that the best decision for Mary Linn and Ocean Carriers would
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Case 1 – Ocean Carriers Kevin Gordon 2543984, Camiel Hamstra, & Marloes Schrijer 2518578 Ocean Carriers is a shipping company with offices in New York and Hong Kong. In 2001, Vice President of Finance, Mary Linn, has to decide whether Ocean Carriers should commission a new capesize carrier to meet the specific requirements of a customer. The proposed contract, however, is only for three years. Linn needs to decide if the considerable investment in a new ship is worth it, given the future
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Background Ocean Carriers Inc. is a shipping company specializing in the operation of capsizes bulk dry carriers. In January 2001, Mary Linn, the vice President of Finance for Ocean Carriers was evaluating the purchase of a new capsize carrier for a three years lease proposed by a motivated customer. The leasing contract offers very attractive terms, but no ship in Ocean Carrier’s current fleet met the customer’s requirements. In addition, this proposed contract is only for three years. Therefore
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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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Ocean Carriers: Case Study MBA 540 Fall 204 Janelle Roche King Quaidoo Suzanne Ekstrom Net Present Value: 15 Year Evaluation if the United States with a 35% Taxation Net present value is used in order to determine the present value of an investment by the discounted sum of all cash flows received from a project. In this case this would be the calculation of the single project capital budgeting for Ocean Carriers Inc. and a purchase of 15 year operation vessel. This 15 year time span would begin
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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 of the value of the
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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 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 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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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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