Masterplanning ports for this century and the next.
Advanced port planning and specialist advisory services to maritime, freight and logistics clients around the world.
Vision
Long-term visioning, delivering planning out as far as a century as well as shorter term planning
US$52bn+
Commercial and technical support on port, freight and offshore wind transactions
Innovation
Planning and evaluation of container, bulk, auto, cruise, ferry, naval and intermodal ports and terminals
Industry peers
Only senior industry staff deliver our projects
Black Quay Consulting is a specialist port consultancy. We provide advanced port planning to port authorities, operators and developers, as well as expert technical and commercial due-diligence services to port and freight related M&A teams around the world.
We have delivered some of the most iconic port development strategies and port masterplans in the world, as well as many of the largest ports and freight related transactions as due-diligence experts, and we have earned a name for ourselves as true innovators in our field.
What we do
Three disciplines, each a rare skill set in its own right. Some of our engagements draw on one, but many draw on all three at once.
Advanced strategic port planning
Quite distinct from operational planning, and a highly specialised skill set that often decides the future of a port’s entire philosophy or masterplan.
- Strategic port masterplanning
- Fleet forecasting and shipping studies
- Supply chain and origin/destination mapping
- Port and freight economic analysis
- Competition reviews
- Organisational structure advice
Operational port planning
Capacity assessment, terminal simulation, infrastructure assessment and equipment specification across every port type.
- Dynamic and static terminal simulation
- Operational layout planning
- Automation strategies and planning
- Vessel and channel interaction modelling
- Efficiency gain and asset sweating
- SIMOPS risk planning
- Intermodal terminal planning
Port M&A support
Commercial and technical due-diligence on many of the world’s largest port and freight related transactions.
- Expert technical and trade due diligence
- Support to sponsors, banks and investors
- Deal advisory team management
- Capex and opex modelling
- Asset and infrastructure assessment
- Purchase optimisation and bid support
Project examples
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Port of New York & New Jersey long-term masterplan
United States — 30-year masterplan
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South Australian long-term port masterplan
Australia — all seven Flinders ports
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Port of Melbourne independent container capacity review
Australia — multi-terminal capacity review
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Kimberley Ports strategic masterplan
Australia — all four regional ports
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Bremore Port market demand study
Ireland — multi-trade demand forecasting
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Canadian west coast container capacity study
Canada — capacity options
Fathom™BLACK QUAY’S TERMINAL CAPACITY SIMULATOR
We model all port types from the channel to the gate, then test it so our clients can commit.
Insight
A fifty-year port plan is not a fifty-year forecast
Article — October 2026
The decisions ports can’t undo
Article — August 2026
Kimberley Ports Masterplan published
Project update — September 2026
‘We have spent years fixing historic negative legacies at ports that were never properly planned’.
Glen Curry, Founder and Director
The practice
Peter Spencer
Director
Business leader with major infrastructure costing experience and driving our company direction.
Glen Curry
Founder & Director
Over thirty years in port planning and transaction advisory. Previously led major global maritime multidisciplinary consultancies.
Molly Campbell
Principal Advisor
Formerly Director of the Port Department, Port Authority of New York & New Jersey.
Caryn Anderson
Principal Advisor
Formerly Executive General Manager, Port of Melbourne, and a port planning and sustainability expert.
Lynn Lai
Senior Advisor
Port planning, trade analysis, demand forecasting and terminal modelling.
Tell us how we can help.
We work with port authorities, governments, investors and sellers, design and construct contractors, shippers and terminal operators. Wherever the project is, we are structured to respond to it.