International Maritime Associates, Inc.     |   home Offshore Oil and Gas Sector   |   Transportation Sector   |   Ports   |   Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Industry   |   Technology Sector and Manufacturers   |   Clients Consulting Services Performed in the Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Industry IMA provides a full range of strategic planning and management advisory services to shipbuilders and ship repair firms.  We have been active in this sector since the early 1970s.  Among our clients have been shipbuilders of all sizes, ship repair firms, government agencies and lending institutions.  The following illustrate the range of services we have provided. assessed the market available to a Mexican ship repair yard, benchmarked competitor strengths and weaknesses and recommended a strategy and plan to strengthen market position evaluated future Libyan ship construction requirements and recommended a plan of action for positioning for future contracts analyzed shipbuilding and offshore equipment fabrication prospects in Brazil and evaluated options for positioning in the Brazilian ship construction market forecast shipbuilding in North America through 2010 and estimated the potential market to be generated by requirements for shipboard electrical systems forecast demand for ship construction in South American and Latin American countries and evaluated capability of local shipbuilders to accomodate future ship construction requirements profiled and compared the technological strengths and weaknesses of Japanese, Korean, European and U.S. shipyards analyzed M&A activity in the U.S. shipbuilding sector and assessed the underlying drivers for recent consolidations identified market expansion opportunities available to a major shipbuilder, assessed the company's ability to compete in various market segments and recommended a strategy for market positioning recommended a long term strategy and business plan for a midsize shipbuilder, including acquisitions to develop and expand activities conceived and coordinated a finance/build/operate project to construct a drydocking facility in the Port of Charleston to be owned by the port authority and operated by commercial tenants -- J.P. Morgan, Parsons Brinckerhoff and MAN GHH participated as consortium members provided advisory services to the World Bank and Yemen Ministry of Transport for privatizing the government owned ship repair yard in Aden developed a long term development plan and capital investment strategy for the shipbuilding and ship repair industry in Malaysia, prepared for the Industrial Development Bank of Malaysia assessed the repair and construction market available to a proposed new shipyard in Ecuador analyzed the planned acquisition of a major shipyard involved in naval and commercial shipbuilding, prepared for a Fortune 500 company conducted a major review of the U.S. Navy's capability to plan and budget the acquisition of new naval ships, including audit of its performance in three major ship acquisition programs prepared numerous market and feasibilty studies for shipbuilders and ship repair firms considering facility improvements and expansions completed more than a dozen multi-client studies of the worldwide shipbuilding market Prior to forming IMA, Mr. McCaul co-authored Improving the Prospects for U.S. Shipbuilding, a study published by Webb Institute of Naval Architecture.  He had also been an advisor on shipbuilding issues to the U.S. General Accounting Office and the Commission on American Shipbuilding