I am a Powergen Equipment Manufacturer
Q: We are a major producer of powergen equipment including turbines, generators and transformers etc. Currently we use a mix of forwarders, heavy logistics contractors and shipowners but this does not result in one seamless chain, and often we have four or six separate contractors and contracts to deal with, and manage… Individually, each of these service providers has a point in their scope beyond which they are not prepared to go. We lose a lot of time and cost in managing the gaps and joints between these various providers. Our only option is to appoint a single forwarder to manage the various contractors, but this costs money and often we find the forwarders experience is not comprehensive enough to identify problems – before they occur – and we are still left holding the responsibility for “risk” and the inevitable cost overruns. How can we encourage our contractors to take more of the scope and risk and provide us with the services we want and not the (limited) services they want to offer?
Q: We are supplying turbines and generators to a newbuild power plant that is located 15 miles from a shallow draft port. We very much want to use this port as the alternative deepwater port is 250 miles from the site and the road is very poor and has to cross a mountain range. But our forwarders and shipowners are telling us that it is not possible. Can you find a way a way for us to use the nearby shallow draft port. There must be specialised or alternative types of ships or other methods that we have not considered?