The founding director of Neptune Maritime Consultancy is Mr. Edwin Lock who holds a B.Sc. in Port Management & Logistics (Flushing, 1989) and a M.Sc. in Maritime Studies (Cardiff, 1993) thus ensuring both a hands-on and academic approach and execution of assignments and projects.
He is an independent management advisor and economist in the field of waterborne transport and port development with a focus on operational, financial, economic and institutional aspects. Since 1992, he has been involved in many projects worldwide regarding master planning, port privatisation & PPP transactions, port and maritime policy and strategy, logistic improvements, management information systems, capital investments and institutional restructuring. Mr. Lock has developed a financial module for investments in ports and related infrastructure. He was involved in the restructuring and privatisation of Portnet in South Africa and the Port of St. Petersburg (Russia). Mr. Lock prepared the Assessment of Tanzania’s Ports in the Regional Economic Environment for the Tanzania Port Authorities. In the port of Paramaribo (Suriname) he introduced Activity Based Costing (ABC) and a methodology and model to determine terminal lease tariffs. Mr. Lock acted as a team leader/project manager of a wide variety of multi-disciplinary and multi-nationality consultancy projects, sector studies, feasibility studies, policy advise and strategic planning in the area of ports and waterborne transport worldwide and has been called in by the European Commission to evaluate Marco Polo, Motorways of the Seas and Connecting Europe Facility project proposals (ports, maritime transport, IWT and rail). Mr. Lock is presently team leader of an EU-financed 3-year Inland Waterway Transport project in Ukraine.
Neptune Maritime Consultancy cooperates with a variety of consultants and specialized companies, depending on project and client requirements.