MUNDRA (IN) → CHILE
Steel pipe for Codelco’s mining supply
- Sector
- Mining
- Supplier
- Jindal
- End client
- Codelco
- Volume
- 248,500 CBM
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Seven disciplines. One analytical spine.
Thirty-four services, practised as seven disciplines — from the first feasibility question to the final claim. One senior point of contact runs the engagement, first read to final delivery.
01 — The spine
Every discipline reads from the same layer.
The practice produces the analysis a critical move stands on. The seven disciplines are that analysis applied — from whether a move is possible at all to who pays when it goes wrong.
Before any of them is engaged, the same six layers are read. A finding in one layer changes the work in the others, so the disciplines run as one practice.
The analytical layer — read before cargo moves
- 01
Geopolitics & sanctions
Political stability, security, sanctions exposure and the institutions that move — or stall — a border crossing.
- 02
Regulatory & customs regimes
Import regimes, temporary admission, exemptions and permits — including Argentina’s RIGI where it applies.
- 03
Weather & seasonal windows
Wind, waves, swell, river stages and rainfall, read against operational criteria to fix execution windows.
- 04
Ports, corridors & infrastructure
Draft, quay strength, crane capacity, bridge loads and road geometry — the physical ceiling of every route.
- 05
Market & asset availability
Tonnage, owners, yards and freight levels, benchmarked against the live market.
- 06
Contractual & commercial exposure
Where liability actually sits in each charter party, Incoterm and purchase order.
02 — The disciplines
From first question to final claim.
Seven pages, one per discipline: what is actually being decided, the process, the deliverables, and the operations where it was applied. In the order a move meets them.
01
Feasibility & Route Engineering
Whether a move is executable, along which corridor and at what approximate cost — settled before commitments are made.
Feasibility studies · Master planning · Route & road surveys · Transport engineering · Cost & value engineering · Weather windows · Investor due diligence
02Cargo Engineering & Heavy Lift
The engineering of the piece itself: how it is lifted, stowed and secured — and which vessel can actually take it.
Lifting concepts & plans · Stowage & securing philosophy · Deck loading & vessel suitability · Transformers, turbines, reactors, modules · Naval architects & surveyors, coordinated
03Marine Chartering
Vessel procurement as a controlled, auditable process — from market sounding to fixture, and through post-fixture.
Voyage & time charter · COAs · Owner pre-qualification · Freight benchmarking · Tender management · Heavy-lift, MPP, Ro-Ro, offshore & DP tonnage
04Air & Critical Cargo
For cargo decided against the clock: independent assessment and senior execution when the schedule cannot absorb the sea.
Full & part air charter · On-board courier · AOG & emergency shipments · Aircraft & airport suitability
05Contract & Liability
Where risk actually sits: the charter party, the Incoterm, the claim — and the paper trail that decides who pays.
Charter-party strategy · BIMCO forms · Incoterms & responsibility mapping · Laytime, demurrage & claims · Maritime legal coordination
06Port, Customs & Regulatory
Ports and regimes evaluated on total landed cost — then navigated with authorities, with compliance intact.
Port & terminal studies · Port A vs Port B on landed cost · Customs & temporary admission · RIGI analysis (Argentina) · Government & stakeholder relations
07Execution & Control
The move, run on the plan: readiness, KPIs, deviations — and senior intervention when reality pushes back.
Door-to-door management · Forwarder procurement · Cargo readiness & vendor coordination · KPIs & reporting · Crisis management & troubleshooting
03 — Engagement
Three ways to engage the practice.
Every engagement is answerable after the fact — to a board, an auditor or a tribunal. Three shapes cover nearly all of them:
- 01
A single discipline
A fixture to procure, a corridor to prove, a port comparison to settle, a claim to defend. One deliverable, a defined end.
- 02
The integrated mandate
The seven disciplines run as one plan — analysis, procurement, contract and control — under one senior point of contact.
- 03
The independent reading
A plan, an offer or a freight level already on the table, read without a position in it. Due diligence for boards, lenders and investors.
Where one discipline prices the next
- 01·02Route ceiling and lift concept are read together: what the corridor cannot pass, no vessel can save.
- 02·03Vessel suitability is settled by the lift and stow concept, not the other way round.
- 03·05The charter party is where the fixture’s risk position is actually written.
- 03·06Load and discharge terms are only as good as the ports that must honour them.
- 06·01Port A against Port B on total landed cost anchors every feasibility study.
- 04·07When the schedule breaks, the air option is assessed against the same plan.
04 — At service level
The thirty-four services.
The full catalogue. Each index points to its discipline above; S marks sector programmes, R independent reviews, T training.
- 03Maritime advisory & chartering
- 07Project cargo & door-to-door logistics
- 02Heavy lift & oversized cargo
- 01Transport engineering
- 01Route & road surveys
- 06Port & terminal studies
- 02Marine & cargo engineering
- 01Logistics feasibility studies
- 01Project logistics master planning
- 01EPC logistics advisory
- SMining logistics
- SOil & gas logistics
- SLNG & gas infrastructure
- 03Offshore & marine projects
- SIndustrial plants & relocations
- 07Freight forwarding strategy & procurement
- 03Marine procurement & tender management
- 05Charter party & maritime contracts
- 05Maritime legal & contractual support
- 05Risk management
- 01Weather, oceanographic & climatic studies
- RSociopolitical & country risk
- 06Government, port & stakeholder relations
- 06Customs & regulatory advisory
- 01Cost engineering & logistics budgeting
- 01Value engineering & optimisation
- 07Supply chain & procurement strategy
- 07Cargo readiness & vendor coordination
- 07Project control, KPIs & reporting
- 05Claims, laytime, demurrage & post-fixture
- RIndependent second opinion
- RDue diligence for investors & developers
- 07Crisis management & troubleshooting
- TTraining & executive advisory
05 — On the record
The disciplines, applied.
Three operations where several of the seven ran as one plan. Figures as recorded; further project detail on request.
MALAYSIA · PHILIPPINES · VENEZUELA
IMPSA hydropower programme
- Sector
- Power & Hydro
- Projects
- Bakun · CBK · Tocoma · Aña Cuá
- Marine ops
- Semi-submersible
- Delivery
- Bakun · Tocoma executed in full
ARGENTINA — ENERGY PROGRAMMES
Two million tonnes of steel pipe
- Sector
- Oil & Gas
- Programmes
- Total Austral · Magallanes · NK Ph. I
- Scope
- Pipe · offshore chartering
- Tonnage
- 2,000,000+ t
06 — Regions
Where the record sits, and where it is going.
Three decades of the record sit in South America. The Mediterranean and North Africa are where the practice is developing next.
South America — the record
Energy, mining, hydropower and industrial cargo through Argentine, Chilean, Brazilian and Uruguayan ports, transhipment to landlocked Paraguay, and the regimes that govern them — from temporary admission to RIGI.
Mediterranean & North Africa — in development
Offshore marine procurement in the Mediterranean basin, read with the same attention to regime, port, operator and season that the South American record was built on.