Transport is the backbone of merchandise trade. From 1995 to 2014, transport services grew on average slightly below total commercial services annual rates, especially before 2000. From the early 2000s, expanding merchandise trade and international air passenger traffic are responsible for significant growth in the transport sector. In 2008, world transport exports reached US$ 891 billion. Transport and finance were the sectors most affected by the global economic crisis. In 2009, world transport exports plunged by 22 per cent, reflecting a weaker demand for freight transport following the sharp decline of merchandise trade. In all leading exporters, transport receipts fell dramatically. In Asia, exports dropped by 28 per cent, in Europe by 21 per cent and in North America by 18 per cent. The global transport sector started to recover in 2010, growing by 16 per cent. However, world exports did not exceed pre-crisis levels until 2013, totaling US$ 906 billion.
MAM Enterprises (Pvt.) Ltd took advantage of the reduction of shipping business to expand its business at competitive costs and develop shipping routes using a professional affiliated company in the region. MAM expanded its business to China, South Korea and Russia to the East and the EU to the North, plus North and South America to the West using in the most part containerized routes and central ports in Northern Europe, East and West coasts of USA and China. MAM is ready to expand its shipping volumes as soon as MAM can purchase more mineral processing equipment.
Transportation in the Minerals Sector
Natural resources are both renewable and non-renewable such as renewable and non-renewable energy (solid fossil fuel and uranium) and non-renewable minerals. Mineral commodities typically refer to solids that must be mined although can include mineral gas such as methane. MAM Enterprises (Pvt.) Ltd processes and ships mostly metallic mineral resources but also includes rock salt, talc etc. The traditional distinction between the liquid/gas and solid minerals is the distinction as a result of the fact that certain companies tend to extract energy (oil, gas, coal and uranium) while others such as MAM tend to extract solid minerals.
To process concentrates from metallic ore requires the use of equipment, chemicals, water, energy, labour and a capital cost of several million dollars usually close to mining regions. Mineral processing is in essence manufacturing except that mineral processing is best done at the mine site (rather than shipping very heavy product including waste long distances to be processed) whereas manufacturing takes place wherever the entrepreneur or technology is located and the raw materials are shipped to that location which effects the labor and capital requirements in many respects. Different minerals require different types of processing such as coal (crushed and washed), iron ore (lumped or palletized), copper (concentrated to 35%), chrome (washed/concentrated up to 40%) and industrial minerals (washed, ground and sized). Standard International Trade Classification (SITC), covers the international pricing as published on the London Metals Exchange (LME) of metallic minerals, iron ore, industrial minerals and coal that can be transported internationally while low bulk international transportation costs allow profitable transportation given local upgrading practices. Building materials such as sand and gravel can only be shipped a few hundred kilometers due to their low value compared to high value metallic minerals.
MAM Enterprises (Pvt.) Ltd focus on JVs with Pakistan mines to take their output and process the minerals locally to international standards. However, MAM Enterprises (Pvt.) Ltd continually looks to upgrade their processes to the latest international standards. MAM Enterprises (Pvt.) Ltd has studied this sector and has targeted several parts of the World where international offices or partners makes sense in the sale of minerals and their professional transportation services for different types of minerals to many parts of the World.
