Mercator International LLC
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Infracture Developers

Infrastructure Developers

Mercator will help your company focus on investing in the right location at the right time. Our data will ensure you have a strategic fit with ports, railroads, highways and projected demographics and freight volumes. We’ll keep you ahead of the curve with unmatched market intelligence and key metrics that can help you to predict the future of international trade so that you can plan to grow.

Our partners and senior associates have worked directly for:

Ocean carriers

Port authoriities

Terminal operators

Railroads

Intermodal marketing companies

Capital investment firms

Freight forwarders

Airlines

Importers and exporters

Management consulting firms

To learn more about our
professional backgrounds,
please visit our team page.
We can help you define a better product with a competitive cost structure.  We’re experts in productivity engineering and can help you plan the most efficient methods for interaction with major highways, port and rail facilities.  We can identify properties that will meet future market needs.

Our combined experience brings you the perspectives of your customers, competitors and service partners that can enhance your profitability:  railroads, port authorities, terminal operators, shipping lines, labor and financial institutions.   Mercator will give you the data and strategic insight you’ll need to effectively manage your capital investments and customer relations.  And we will help you develop a strategy to optimize the relationships with your surface transportation partners.

Services

Strategic plans
  • Comparative assessments of competing ports and carriers
  • Formulation of long-term business plans and strategies
  • Inland costs and competitive factors
  • Feasibility studies
  • Merger integration
  • Pricing strategies
  • Contract analysis
  • Labor planning
Capital investment analysis and financial planning
  • Mergers, acquisitions and privatization
  • Expansion and/or development projects
  • Equipment replacement programs
  • Valuations of facilities
  • Due diligence
  • Financial projections/cash flow/modeling
  • Forensic / economic analysis
  • Cost data and analysis
Market research and commercial management
  • Trade analysis and cargo volume forecasting
  • Market share analysis and capacity projections
  • New market entry strategies and service planning
  • Projected macro-economic and micro-economic trends within trade lanes
  • Forecasting
Asset optimization and productivity engineering
  • Productivity improvement studies
  • Facility planning
  • Infrastructure improvement
  • Labor planning
  • Performance measurement
  • Technical and operational reviews and recommendations
Logistics management
  • Strategic designs of international supply chains/distribution networks
  • Locations analysis for warehouses/distribution centers
  • Cargo routing optimizations
Other services:
  • Interim executive placements
  • Regulatory design
  • Evaluation of sales organization
  • Senior management recruiting
  • Developing systems requirements
  • Education and training
  • Litigation support
  • Expert witness

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