Newcastle University

Introduction

Paul Stott is a naval architect who has held line management positions in shipyards and has a wide-ranging background in international market research and strategic planning.  Paul entered academia in 2010 after spending twenty six years in the marine industries.  Working initially as a production and project manager in the shipyards of North East England he then spent twenty two years as a consultant working for companies and institutional clients in around forty countries, developing a considerable reputation in the field.  Consultancy work of particular note includes the following:

• Innovative work in developing product mix strategies and the understanding of the economic links between shipyards and their markets, as a framework for setting targets.
• Responsibility for strategic planning for the development of  (inter-alia) Wai Gao Qiao (China’s largest shipyard), Abu Dhabi Shipbuilding (UAE) and Nakilat Ship Repair Yard (Qatar).
• Technical expert in a trade dispute between EU and South Korea relating to shipbuilding competitiveness, pursued through tribunal at the World Trade Organisation.   Monitoring of shipyard activities in South Korea and cost modelling to build and justify the case were undertaken over a period of about five years.

Background

1997 – 2010: Principal Consultant, First Marine International Limited

1996 – 1997: Director, Strategic Maritime Consulting

1988 – 1995: Director, A&P Appledore International

1986 – 1988: Project Manager, North East Shipbuilders Limited

1984 – 1986: Teaching Company (Research) Associate, Newcastle University / British Shipbuilders

Roles and Responsibilities

Senior Lecturer, marine production and shipping market analysis

Stream Leader, MSc Marine Transport with Management

Qualifications

BSc (first class honours), Naval Architecture and Shipbuilding, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1984.

Memberships

Member of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects

Chartered Engineer

Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing

Esteem indicators 

External examiner, Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University 

Council Member, Shipbuilders and Ship Repairers Association (UK)

Member of the Market Monitoring Group of the Committee of European Shipbuilders’ Associations (Brussels).

Speaker at AVEVA Marine Reference Group Meeting (London), April 2011, speaking on "key concepts underlying shipbuilding performance and competitiveness". 

Honours and Awards

Burrill Medal (1984) from the North East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders, “for outstanding results obtained in Part III of the Final Examination for BSc Honours”.

Elmer L Hann Award from the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers for “paper entitled ‘Marketing Strategy for Merchant Shipbuilders’, 1995 Ship Production Symposium, Seattle, Washington”.

Research Interests

My research interests are related to the interface between marine industries and markets, in particular competitiveness and price / subsidy.  Interests include market forecasting, metrics and performance measurement, and the role of non-governmental organisations such as the WTO and OECD in regulating shipping markets.

I am active in the Low Carbon Shipping Consortium (http://www.lowcarbonshipping.co.uk/), a research project which started in January 2010. It is majority funded by UK government research funding - the RCUK energy programme has committed £1.7 million over 3 years - but is also supported financially and in-kind by a number of industry partners including Lloyd’s Register, Rolls Royce, Shell and BMT. LCS is jointly run between five UK universities: Newcastle, UCL, Plymouth, Hull and Strathclyde.  My contribution has been in the field of the effects of the expansion of the Panama Canal on ship design (ini particular in the bulk sectors) and in understanding the investment climate for ship owners in relation to retro-fitting of carbon-reducing technologies.  Two papers from me have stemmed from this source.

Previous research interests have included control of distortion in thin plate structures in shipyard construction.

Projects

Consultancy for Heerema (2011) in the evaluation of production systems for the mass production of jacket structures.

Consultancy for Newcastle Science City (2012) in the validation of a business plan for the development of rotary sail systems for merchant vessels.

Undergraduate

MAR1005 (Module Leader, 100% contribution): Marine Production Management I

MAR2012 (20% contribution): Engineering Applications

MAR2013 (Module Leader, 100% contribution): Marine Production Management II 

Postgraduate

Mar8022 (Module Leader, 100% contribution): Marine Production Business

MAR8043 (Module Leader, 80% contribution): Shipping Market Analysis and Risk Management

MAR8096 (Module Leader): Dissertation (MSc Marine Transport with Management)

SPG8010 (20% contribution): Renewable Energy; Marine and Offshore Devices

Administrative role as module leader

MAR8014: Marine Liability Insurance and Law

MAR8036: The International Safety Management (ISM) Code

MAR8023: Surveying Ships and Offshore Installations

Teaching Development

Whatever our graduates move on to do in employment, a thorough knowledge of the way that marine structures are produced is of fundamental importance.  The teaching of marine production in the School has been modernised and updated by Mr Stott since 2010 to make it valid to 21st Century graduates in whatever sector of the industry they enter, from offshore to yachts, or whatever role they progress into over their career, from production or project management to surveyor or designer.  A course of three modules aims to give a broad education to students in aspects of all sectors of the shipyard industries and seeks to teach a commercial view of the industries as well as the technical view.  The aim is that students leaving at stage 3 should be able to orientate themselves in a shipyard environment and to contribute positively in a managerial or design role.  Those choosing the masters level option will study further the business aspects of  the shipyard industries and will be eductated to operate at more senior managerial levels or as entrepreneurs.

• Stott P. Marketing Strategy for Merchant Shipbuilders. In: SNAME Ship Production Symposium. 1995, Seattle, Washington: Journal of Ship Production: Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers.
• Stott P, Kattan MR. Shipbuilding competitiveness: The marketing overview. Journal of Ship Production 1997, 13(1), 1-7.
• Stott PW. Surviving EU Accession: The Seven Habits of Highly Successful Shipbuilders. In: Proceedings of the 18th Symposium on Theory and Practice of Shipbuilding (SORTA). 2008, Pula, Croatia: Faculty of mechanical engineering and naval architecture, University of Zagreb.
• Stott P. Evaluation of a business plan for the application of rotary sails (Flettner Rotors) in the commercial bulk shipping fleet. Newcastle Science City: Newcastle University, 2012.
• Stott PW, Wright PNH. Opportunites for improved efficiency and reduced co2 emissions in dry bulk shipping stemming from the relaxation of the panamax beam constraint. Transactions A: International Journal of Maritime Engineering 2011, 153(A4), A215-A229.
• Stott P, Wright P. The Panama Canal expansion: business as usual or game changer for ship design?. Port Technology International 2012, (53), 27-28.
• Stott PW. The significance and economic context of retro-fitting in the pursuit of reduced greenhouse gas emissions from international shipping. Energy Policy 2012. Submitted.
• Stott P, Wright PNH, Bakalees A. Typical ship principal dimensions. 2011. Newcastle: Newcastle University School of Marine Science and Technology.
• Stott P. Characteristics of ownership in the sale and purchase of ships and implications for the supply of retro-fitted marine equipment. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part M, Journal of Engineering for the Maritime Environment 2013. In Press.
• Stott PW. New panamax and its implications for ship design and efficiency. In: Low Carbon Shipping Conference. 2012, Newcastle University.
• Stott PW. New panamaxes get a wide berth. The Naval Architect 2012, (November 2012), 21-24.