Memo OCEAN CARRIERS Date: January 2, 2001 To: Mary Linn, Vice President of Finance From: Thomas Harper Subject: Investment in New Capesize Bulk Ship After analyzing the commissioning of a new capsize ship for a three-year lease, my team has come to the conclusion that Ocean Carriers should move forward with the investment only if it is built and registered in our Hong Kong office. There were key assumption my team and I made in our analysis and they are as follows:
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Ocean Carriers Case Study Q1. a). we expect the daily spot hire rates to decrease in 2001 and 2002 according to the forecast in exhibit 5. This decline in daily spot rates is also supported by the forecast in Exhibit 3 showing a decline in ordering bulk capsizes from 63 in 2001 to 33 in 2002. Spot hire rates tend to fluctuate depending on the highs and lows trading volumes in the market. So since according to the forecast the demand for Iron ore had a poor market outlook in 2001, the spot hire
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Case Study Questions Capital Budgeting In Practice Ocean Carriers These questions relate to the Ocean Carriers case in your course packet. You can find the data for this case on the course website in a spreadsheet named: Ocean Carriers Exhibits.xls. This case provides the opportunity to make a capital budgeting decision by using discounted cash flow analysis to make an investment and corporate policy decision. Ocean Carriers is a shipping company evaluating a proposed lease of a ship
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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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Case Study 1 – Ocean Carriers 1. The Capital Budgeting Decision Should Ms. Linn purchase the Capesize vessel? Assume that Ocean Carriers is a U.S. firm and is subject to 35% taxation. (Please see excel sheets) From our analysis it appears that Ms. Linn should not buy the Capesize vessel. The Net Present Value on the Ocean Carrier is not a positive number, a clear indicator that buying the vessels is not a good idea. The tax rate of 35% makes a lot of difference in determining this NPV
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worldwide supply of capesizes by 11% and 5.4%, respectively. Furthermore the worldwide capesize fleet is relatively young – only 8 capesizes are at least 20 years old – there should be relatively few scrappings. For example Exhibit 5 of the Ocean Carriers case study shows the direct correlation between the number of shipments of iron ore and the average daily spot rate. From 1995-1996, the average spot rate fell from $20,149 to $11,730 and from 1997-1999, the average spot rate fell from $14,794
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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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Ocean Carrier Case Study Summary In order to accept the recently submitted leasing contract proposal, Ocean Carriers would have to purchase a new ship. The purchasing of a new ship is a considerable investment. We have analyzed whether or not Ocean Carriers should make this investment using Free Cash Flow and Net Present Value (NPV) analysis. Given the details of the contract, the forecasted daily time charter rates, and the costs data; we have concluded that Ocean Carriers should not accept
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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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rate iron ore vessel shipments 0.18 -0.38 fleet size 0.98 0.86 Table I Correlation Coefficient between iron ore vessel shipment, fleet size and average spot rate Should Ms. Linn purchase the $39M capsize? Hong Kong or the U.S? (Ocean Carriers uses a 9% discount rate.) To analyze these two scenarios, we choose to calculate net cash flow and IRR for every year. The detail calculation is attached in the appendix and the methodology of this approach is enlisted as below. Formula
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