Shell Shipping
Oil and gas exporting countries depend on shipping. Shell has shipping organization in London and specialist centers in Houston, The Hague, Singapore, Perth and Tokyo. Shell converts gas in to liquid form called Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) and transports it across the world via ships. Shell is the largest LNG shipping operator. Shell operates 50 of the world’s 370 LNG carriers.
Scheduling problems
There are cases when Shell employs other company ships to transport their cargo, and there can be cases when other companies who are making use of Shell's terminal to import/export cargo for their own needs. In the shipping operations several scheduling problems are observed. Many times ships have to wait at port before she
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• Big size vessels Shell hires consume 10 Million Ton of heavy duty fuel oil per day.
• The current market price of heavy duty fuel oil is $600 per Million Ton. That would make loss of USD 6,000 per day when vessel is idle. Case 4 – Utilization of the Shell terminal - Same as discussed in case 1,2 and 3.
• Other companies make use of terminals owned by the Shell to load and unload their cargo
• Scheduling problems at the port show similar financial impact on other companies as discussed in case 1, 2 and 3
Possible mitigation strategies –
1. Adding berths at the port
• Port congestion is often caused due to lack of adequate berths available to accommodate ships. Increasing the port capacity to accommodate more ships at a time can solve the problem
• Although construction of additional berths involves huge cost, the same can probably generate returns if there is adequate demand
2. Tidal port terminal
• At tidal port vessels have to wait for the suitable tide in order to come in, else there will simply not be enough depth for safe navigation
• Construction of an enclosed dock that would make sure there is adequate depth
3. If Shell uses her own vessels or employs one, the vessels can be requested to speed up or slow prior arriving to the port, so that she arrives as close as possible to favorable time
4. Documentation
• When a tanker loads her cargo, a considerable amount of time is spent on documentation, for which
1.To respond to emergencies i.e. fire (in port) or on board a ship at the anchorage, accidents , Accidents, Man over board, grounding of vessels, May- day calls, oil pollution to minimize the damage & causalities.
Currently, the shipping and receiving departments have materials coming in and going out at the same time. With the rail handling shipping and receiving, this is creating a bottleneck of materials. By creating certain shipping and receiving times that do not conflict, this will allow for a smooth process that will help the supply chain. (Russell, R., et al., pg. 423) Not only does the actual manufacturing process need to run smoothly, but the shipping and receiving of materials needs to run the same.
5. Mooring and pontoon berthing for up to 350 vessels, up to 45ft in length and 2m draft. This will require dredging to a depth of 2.5m to allow access to the pontoons for larger vessels.
The Sheepscot Bay Boat Company was suggested as a possible solution for transportation of the contractors across the harbor by George Rickley. The only constraints were created by the limit of two rental boats. The contractors had to communicate their schedule between each other to coordinate the crossing of the harbor. One boat had to be on each side of the harbor so people could cross from either side at all times.
production. My opinion is that the estimate of 1 million barrels per day as stated in your source
incidents from 1982 to 1992. This totals around 40% of the total number of Shell’s oil
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There are a number of contemporary issues affecting today’s companies and relevant stakeholders that can be derived from the Deepwater horizon oil spill incident. The most notable contemporary issue is pollution; the incident resulted in 4.9 million barrels of oil
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When the cargo owner (usually the insured) entrusts the goods to someone for storage or transportation, a bailment is created. If the goods move from or to the United States, internationally by ocean, that bailment relationship is controlled by the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act (COGSA), a statute of the United States. International shipments, not touching a U.S. port, may be controlled by other treaties, such as Hague-Visby or Hamburg Rules.
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