Economy Shipping Company
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Economy Shipping Company Advanced Financial Management Professor Clayton July 21, 2005 Tim Boyd Dave Chen Ian Hoffman Chirayu Patel It is recommended that Economy Shipping Company (ESC) replace the steamboat, Cynthia, with a new diesel powered boat. The analysis assumed no operating cost in 1950. Although ESC was presumably still in service during this analysis, the costs associated with the project evaluation were not accounted for until 1951. It was also implicit in the NPV calculations that any upgrade required subsequent to 1950 could be performed without any interruption to the daily operations and were performed at the beginning of the year. Therefore, the stoker upgrade and the engine replacements were considered on Jan 1st of the intended year and did not require any downtime for the installation. The evaluation considered four different scenarios: 1. Rehabilitation of Cynthia with the stoker conversion occurring in 1950 (App A) 2. Rehabilitation of Cynthia with the stoker conversion occurring in 1952...


