Atlantico Business Development

Welcome to Atlantico Business Development!

Atlantico Business Development provides business development services to high profile private sector customers, focusing on maritime markets on both sides of the Atlantic.

More than seven years ago we started out with a focus on Portuguese speaking countries: Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Cabo Verde and Mozambique and later spread our wings to Spain, the UK and the US.

Meanwhile we extended our client base from our hometown Rotterdam well into the Benelux (the so called ARA-region).

We are active in port promotion, ship registration and maritime security, as well as innovative business development in the wider maritime sector.

More concretely Atlantico Business Development serves shipping companies on maritime security and ship registration matters and port and terminal operators on commercial port and terminal development, besides advising and coaching numerous Dutch startups and scaleups.

Atlantico Business Development is a network organization. We operate with a small and dedicated team from our headoffice in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, while maintaining an extensive network of consultants and assistants in our core markets. We are able to upscale our team for a specific project with specific demands at any time.

OUR SERVICES

International Business Consulting

Atlantico Business Development provides international consulting to high profile companies and organisations in many countries.

Topics of our research include (or have included):

the threats and opportunities regarding Brexit,
future marine fuels,
scenarios and forecasts,
regional business analysis,
promotion strategies,
maritime cluster development,
market entry,
business development,
market analysis,
commercial port development,
bunkering,
green marine fuels,
opportunities for flagstates,
geopolitical risk,
the impact of the Russo-Ukrainian war,
security risk

and much more...

For geopolitical risk analysis and scenarios, be also welcome to contact our sister company Atlantico Group.

Atlantico Group now forecasting geopolitical risk

Be welcome to contact our sister company Atlantico Group, founded in late 2020, for all your queries regarding geopolitcal risk. Atlantico Group is now operational in all our business hubs: London, Houston, São Paulo, Cape Town, Warsaw and Singapore.

Atlantico Group is an independent business and not afilliated to any government. It is truly international with a worldwide orientation. Acting as a business to your business or as entrepreneur to entrepreneur, the focus of Atlantico Group is on smaller and mid sized companies.

Atlantico Group is excellent value for money as there is no need for expensive subscriptions. Both written consultancy and online sparring/coaching are available at accesible rates.

Find out more here.

(Online) International Business Coaching & Consulting

Doing business is not easy and doing international business is even harder. The world is huge and there are lots of opportunities out there, as well as a lot of risk and unknown factors. These risks can be on the economy or business side of your operations, but they can also be geopolitical by nature.

Atlantico Business Development throughout its existance has coached or advised many companies when doing international business. We carry out this consulting or coaching about a range of issues in any country you might want to talk about. Furthermore, we do it in a accessible and cost effective way: by the hour, online and in a personal talk. Find out more...

RECENT EVENTS

Atlantico Business Development, the independent port promoter and maritime business developer of Rotterdam, will organize the 3rd (online) edition of Ship2Brazil. Ship2Brazil is the go-to event for maritime business in Brazil. The third edition will focus on port development, breakbulk and project cargo.

All are huge markets in Brazil and deserve further attention. Ship2Brazil 3 will feature four or five speakers from Brazil's top ports and companies, sharing their business opportunities and knowledege about the sector.

The full line up of speakers will include Pedro Oliveira, New Projects Director at Unimar-Agiênciamentos Marítimos, João Braz, Logistics and Industry Director at the Port of Açu, Paulo Salvador, Executive Director of Grão-Pará Multimodal, Fabiano Rodrigues, Business Director at BBC do Brasil as agents for BBC Chartering and Jean-Luc Helsmoortel, Key-Account Manager Shippers & Forwarders at Port of Antwerp, the latter highlighting the great connections between Brazil and the ARA region.

This third edition will be sponsored by Unimar-Agiênciamentos Marítimos and Grão-Pará Multimodal from Brazil as well as the Port of Antwerp and the Green Award Foundation from Europe! Please find more information here.

SHIP2IBERIA

On January 27th Atlantico Business Development, the independent port promoter and maritime business developer of Rotterdam, will organize the 8th (online) edition of Ship2iberia. Ship2iberia is the go-to event for maritime business in Spain and Portugal and takes place annually in Rotterdam or Antwerp.

Among the speakers will be Nuno Araújo, CEO of the Port of Leixões, and Javier Lopez, Head of the Commercial Dept of the Port of Algeciras, Susana Broco, Senior Bunker Trader at Galp, Manuela Patricio, Director for Terminals at Port of Lisbon, João Silva, Member of the Board of ETE Logistixx, Pedro Lemos, Operations Director, Port of Aveiro, Diogo Vaz Marecos, Regional General Manager at Yilport Iberia, Elisa Zamora, Commercial Director of the Port of Tenerife and Mercedes Rosillo Otaño, Commercial Officer of the Port of Huelva.

The event will be sponsored by the Port of Algeciras, the Port of Aveiro, ETE Logistixx, Galp Bunkering, Green Award Foundation, Yilport Iberia, the Port of Lisbon, the Port of Leixões, the Port of Tenerife, the Port of Huelva, Sevways, Amspec and WEC Lines.

The full line up of speakers and sponsors will be announced soon and more info can be found here.