PROVIDING EXECUTIVE COUNSEL ON MARITIME FREIGHT MARKETS AND FINANCE

WE SERVE LAW FIRMS, FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS, FUNDS, IR AND PR PROFESSIONALS           CONTACT INFO

bdp1 Consulting Ltd. is staffed by a group of people with years of operating and management backgrounds in the transportation business and finance businesses with specialty in financial writing, sprinkled with a heavy dose of market and transaction analysis.  If you have a dispute involving a maritime calculation, we can probably help you out. Indexation of Rates, Values, Prices and a diverse group of Maritime Calculations are central to our activities. Yet, the brain has two sides, so a good number cruncher must be a good communicator...that's why our offerings also include Excellent financial writing - You won't get a better insiders' view anywhere. Our financial writing is insightful and readable. We can help hedge funds, private equity/ infrastructure players and the commercial banks, investment banks and others who serve them. The Principal of the company, Barry Parker, has an MBA degree from the Wharton School, and experience as a consultant with Booz & Company, ensuring that we see the world just as a world-class consultant would. In addition to his work in brokerage and finance, the Principal of the company was a Visiting Professor, lecturing at the World Maritime University in Malmoe on maritime information technology. He also has appeared as an Expert Witness concerning asset valuation of a fleet of container vessels and likely freight market scenarios surrounding them. bdp1 Consulting Ltd. is a resource to well known maritime and commodity consulting firms, as well, on freight market and maritime financial matters. click to get to Barry Parker's biography

For Trendspotters- We are always practical, sometimes irreverant, but usually early and right about the big picture tipping points and trends. Our clients may already be in the maritime business, while others are looking to enter the business (or a new sector in its fragmented landscape) and need an intelligent guide to get them past the confusion and obstacles.  In order to penetrate the  shipping business, you need a trustworthy guide who knows the territory. Our team stretches from New York, where we maintain a network of academics and maritime academy students, to London, where we collaborate with the best consultants in the business, and onward to Asia- where any ample outsourcing bench maintains data and handles economic modelling work. We also have access to a stable of top talent from Ivy League schools to assist on a surge basis.

Why bdp1? We offer a top flight view of the business dynamic (with decades of experience) interposed upon a unique vantage point and knowledge of the culture of the business and a rolodex with the first names of the big hitters. Language and communication are critical. That's where we can add a great deal of value.  Contact us for more information. After years of explaining freight derivatives and energy derivatives for shipping to those without MBA's- we've learned a few things that we can impart to our clients.

photo credit above: Katherine McGirr 

PHOTO GALLERY New York office in midtown N.Y.C. Writing room at Long Island office PICTURES  OF  BARRY PARKER BELOW SO  YOU CAN FIND ME AT CONFERENCES OR ROADSHOWS

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In the Global Village, the company Principal is located in an office (pictured above, right) very near to Long Island Sound, on the North Shore of Long Island, just steps from the beautiful shore with a view of vessel traffic on Long Island Sound. We also maintain an office in midtown Manhattan (pictured above, left). Our contact details are below. We work with clients all over the world, often via our high speed broadband internet connections.  We are called bdp1 (that's the number 1 !!!) because a large logistics specialist based in Philadelphia USA (with whom we have no affiliation) might not like it if we did not have the " 1 " in our name! Phone 1 516 606 9088   bdp1 at conconnect dot com  click to get to Barry Parker's biography NOW ON SKYPE  call or email to schedule a conversation WHERE WE HAVE APPEARED IN THE MEDIA: BARRY PARKER interviewed on WORLD FOCUS REGARDING PIRACY AND "MAERSK ALABAMA" APRIL 8, 2009 BARRY PARKER interviewed on WORLD FOCUS REGARDING PIRACY AND "MAERSK ALABAMA" APRIL 9, 2009 BARRY PARKER interviewed on WORLD FOCUS REGARDING PIRACY AND "MAERSK ALABAMA" APRIL 12, 2009 BARRY PARKER interviewed on WORLD FOCUS REGARDING PIRACY AND "MAERSK ALABAMA" DEC 24, 2009 BARRY PARKER ON WTOP RADIO April 12, 2009  RE ARMS ABOARD VESSELS (sound clip) BARRY PARKER QUOTED IN NEW YORK TIMES REGARDING ARMS ABOARD VESSELS- FIGHTING PIRACY BARRY PARKER QUOTED IN NEW YORK TIMES ON SHIPPING IPO's BARRY PARKER QUOTED IN TRADEWINDS RE DUBAI PORTS Listen to Barry Parker, from bdp1 Consulting Ltd. on "Morning Edition", Jan 31, 2005, a National Public Radio show discussing his views on Maritime Security. The clip starts at  2:55  into the excerpt.