Business Planning of a Special Economic Zone

Requirements

Bengal Port Private Limited (BPL) signed Concession Agreements with the Government of West Bengal (GoWB) to develop, finance, construct, manage, operate and maintain a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) and Minor Port at Kulpi, West Bengal, India.

BPL commissioned a consortium of consultants, including BMT, to undertake a Feasibility Study of the Kulpi SEZ and Port.

Solutions 

We were appointed to undertake a Business Plan, summarising the market, operational and financial assessments of developing a clean container terminal at Kulpi.

Benefits 

Our Business Plan reviewed strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) to the business, assessing:

• The practical market forecast volumes that the container terminal may be expected to handle
• The qualitative competitive situation of the terminal
• Tariff scenarios
• The existing container shipping operations on the Hooghly River
• The limits on ships sizes that could operate into at a terminal at Kulpi

• How the proposed terminal should address the market to differentiate itself from existing container handling operations
• The business strategy that should be adopted by the terminal to achieve the strategic business objectives
• The operating strategy and performance that should be achieved by the proposed terminal
• The likely financial performance of the terminal and its sensitivity to the assumptions made

Accessing our wide range of expertise, we also assisted the customer in other areas of the project: a Channel Capacity Study and a Navigation Study were also provided.