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THAT FUNDING YOUR COMPANY NEEDS!
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consortium. There is strength In numbers. AIP works with selected small, diverse, industrial and
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provides global market expertise.
Financial Engineering:
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to locate financing. AIP assists in the development of
global markets for its Capricorn Canopy Company Consortium members and utilizes federal international funding sources including the World Bank and
designs financing instruments for state
economic development funding agencies as well as public market devices.
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AIP is perfecting a countertrade exchange bank (CTEB) to provide funds for
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The jewels in what AIP and the
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(Sometimes the gem is as intangible as an idea.)
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impact favorably on US trade balances while advancing the interests of
small businesses to sell products globally.
AIP primarily emphasizes project and trade transactions in the US and in the
"Developing World," such as Africa, Asia and NIS countries of the former Soviet
Union.
If
your company can't obtain funding for domestic expansion for reasons other than
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participate in international trade.
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The Capricorn Canopy Consortium, and Fish & Ships, Inc., are subsidiaries of AIP Corporation.
Following is an overview of a project involved in setting up and selling land-based and/or ship-based turnkey aquaculture development facilities and production plants. Proprietary linear food preparation and processing divisions serving the frozen food industry and related markets are presently targeted for land-based facilities by AIP, the CCC, and Fish & Ships, Inc..
Advantages afforded when aquaculture systems are seaborne
a) Vessels bearing operating aquaculture systems can be based in the open
sea outside the continental limits imposed by nations in protection of their
coastal waters and fishing fields.
b) Environmental regulations imposed on land usually do not apply at sea, and where they are imposed by the international community of nations, they are not nearly as severely enforced. Also, it is difficult to pollute the sea with waste matters common to the sea. Fish pollution occurs naturally in the sea.
c) This aquaculture production system does not depend on harvesting feed fish from the sea as food for livestock production engines, as it raises superior feed in onboard units designed for that purpose. This charge leveled at the fledging aquaculture industry by the vested fishing industry – namely that man- made aquaculture systems deplete the oceans of the world of the food fish, which are basic to the survival and good health of wild fish in the open sea, and that this helps kill off fish stocks and further etiolates commercial fish species already in catastrophic depletion. The essence of this charge is consequently rejected.
d) After initial upfront setup costs of an sea-borne aquaculture system, the operation costs are far less then those associated with land-based operating systems, and in the short term, this system easily recovers its costs.
e) Seaborne platforms aboard self-propelled ocean-going vessels are mobile and can move to safety when circumstances demand.
f) The vessel is at once instant collateral as a basis for financing and not subject to the fluctuating financial value considerations associated with land-based entities. It carries its undiminished value whatever its location, which can always be made temporary.
g) The fishing industry is opposed to the cultured fish aquaculture fledging industry p because of fear for value loss value of its investment in fleets. Most financing agencies are reluctant to finance the industry because of the outcry and outrage of environmentalists over their fear of the furtherance of the catastrophic diminution of commercial species and the potential threat to other species
h) The answer appears to be for all the parties of interest is: The above entitled enclosed aquaculture production engines can produce 100 000 lbs of product a day , and with inexpensive modifications, can vastly enhance this production schedule and even develop much larger ship carriers with vastly more capacity, surrounded by power barges utilized as storage facilities and repair equipment, processing platforms, and cryotechnic research, and development for new foods. The fish cartels can send their fleets to these facilities instead of out to sea in pursuit of hard-to-find catches. They can fulfill their needs by using their equipment as freight carriers hauling fresh foods. In other words, they utilize their inventory of fishing boats like tractor trailers on land as pick up and delivery crafts at the man-made fish depot in the open sea. In this way, the fishing industry can increase value for all involved in the industry including the end consumers on a global world trade basis. The sea depot becomes a trading floor and marketing system
Pro forma statements, projections, and attendant assumptions are included in a full business plan presentation supported by this feasibility overview setting forth the viability of this project.
These turnkey enclosed aquaculture facilities can operate successfully in the most difficult telluric conditions including hostile terrain and exigent weather.
The quiddity and basic principle of the project is a 600,000 sq ft 22-unit enclosed (biosphere) aquaculture fish/biomass production system, able to produce and develop fish species from most environments in artificially created ambiance and habitants, and made available for acquisition by municipalities, companies, and or individuals. This type of facility is capable of producing 100,000 lbs of finfish product per day per unit, delivering cold, warm, salt or fresh water fin or shellfish in pollution-free enclosures utilizing recycled aquarium quality water. The biomass of fish products shall be marketed globally via e-commerce virtual market selling floors, as well as by way of the food-processing and distribution segments of this horizontally planned operation, and through establishing a presence in the $200 billion frozen food markets.
This turnkey aquaculture biomass production facility when targeted for Less Developed Countries is intended to enhance export profits for the trade partners, and to produce much needed hard currency for LDCs, which in turn bolsters the economies for all involved. AIP Consortium group has obtained eight purchase contracts for these turnkey facilities, including four facilities to be installed aboard ships converted to, or newly constructed, aquaculture finfish/shellfish production vessels producing stocks in commercial quantities meeting market demands. Fish & Ships, Inc. has orders and deposits from, interested foreign buyers totaling $64 M, and Letters of Interest totaling $25 M have been successful sought through the US Export Import Bank.
This project is multifaceted and composite in functions based on a reliable, uninterrupted supply of fin and shellfish.
Why Food Processing?
The Project: GLOBAL
1. Proposed is a 600,000 sq ft fish processing commercial/industrial facility.
Assuming 50% of the fish crop is processed into filets and 25% is sold live, and 25% sold as whole/gutted fish, the potential 30 million round weights per year break down into 5.25 million pounds of fish for the market per year. This production number is made up of 3.75 live weight pounds and 1.50 million pounds of whole gutted fish from food-processing activity. These rendered and processed products will generate $30 M in gross revenues annually. The frozen prepared gourmet division is projected to increase profits by $5 M of a total of $35 M per annum. These figures are derived from market prices paid by consumers for products of their preferences.
2. The fish-processing operation will prepare raw fish stock for retail and wholesale vendors serving local and regional markets. The frozen food and canned items will serve the busy professional with little time for at-home food preparations high end, middle end, and common end markets.
3. The turnkey plants will be owned, leased, or contracted for operation by the owners with the aid of technicians provided by AIP/CCC.
a) Prepared seafood: Because of improved husbandry technology, larger, tastier fish and shellfish can be nurtured and sold. This project’s flagship products, jumbo shrimp, crabs (large and small), crayfish, and prawns, can be raised and sold at affordable prices. A wide variety of high-demand commercial fish and development of other potentially profitable high-demand species not currently abundant in the commercial marketplace will also be cultivated as premium products.
b) Diseases (Mad Cow, hoof & mouth, Scrapie, etc) that afflict beef, lamb, and pork have been highly publicized. This should result in greater consumption of seafood. This trend can be accelerated by sales and support personnel, a large part of which will be made up of women and minorities. Management and technicians for industrial operations requiring highly skilled personnel as well as food specialists will be sought based on previous experience and documented know-how. The compensation for this group will be based on industrial standards and industry rate levels.
c) In the year 2000, the US imported more than 3 million metric tons of shrimp to satisfy demands, the single largest item of seafood to be imported. The US also imported about 5 million metric tons of other fish varieties. These figures support two assumptions: that there exists a large and growing demand globally and domestically for fish and seafood products.
A Global Market Strategy: This entire can be understood in terms of “Demand Solutions." The selection of product for domestic and international consumption will respond to market demand. A significant part of the planned operation involves international sales.
A marketing sales promotion will brand name and position the product as prime, free of pathogens and other problems fish in the wild or even pond-bred fish are heir to. AIP/CCC/F&S will form strategic alliances, collaborations, JV agreements, and target suitable established operations for acquisition.
Haute cuisine restaurants will be provided with easy to prepare gourmet frozen preparations that would normally be outside their capability in terms of kitchen help and equipment, and/or financial means. Many restaurants do not carry seafood because preparation and market demand are distantly apart. Home-prepared seafood is met with similar problems magnified by preparation, odors etc.
The American Internax Planning Corporate consortium is an international trade financing and project development organization emphasizing trade relationships to promote the US economy, and that of foreign trade partners.
Employment, Employees: US (projection)
Year 1: 350 employees, unskilled, semi-skilled 25 supervisors and high skilled
Year 2: 35 supervisors
Year 3: 4000 +unskilled/semi-skilled
The food processing and gourmet preparation part of the planned facility(ies) will be subcontracted to a management company. Women and minorities respondents will be welcomed.
Funding: This project qualifies for USDA and TVA funding; OPIC funding for international funding The USDA is charged with advancement and vigilance over the nation’s agriculture and related industries having an effect upon the farming community and to some extent fishing activities. Because of its international trade aspects, this project also qualifies for USDA, US Eximbank, TVA and OPIC guarantees and funding. Principal funding technology, however, will involve taxable, composite, convertible, industrial, state-issued revenue bonds, indirectly collateralized by government guarantees (asset-backed bonds).
A USDA guarantee will be utilized to support debt financing undertaken by the beneficiary to fund an approved pilot project. In the case of debt instruments such as bonds being offered on the capital markets, these type bonds can utilize the fact of the guarantee thus making the bonds a ‘Collateralized Debt Obligation,’ but not a collateralized debt instrument as understood in the financial communities. The guarantee will be to the Consortium, which in turn guarantees bonds with its own guarantee.
By reason of the above, taxable industrial revenue bonds can be offered as indirect federally guaranteed debt instruments akin to what is called in the bond markets ‘CDO’s or collateralized debt obligations.
The Northeast Market: Studies by the University of Rhode Island, University of New Hampshire, and University of Delaware revealed that market demand can be created for almost any seafood product because of intense shortages in the open seas. However, the challenges presented by both foreign and domestic competition mean that increase in revenues for seafood purveyors must be generated within the marketplace. By increasing the demand for seafood, managers can affect prices, discover consumer preferences and consumption habits, and utilize them skillfully. The quality of the seafood product and consumer interest will sell market fish products in ever increasing tonnage. These is a clear marketing advantage for quality product which is increasingly in demand.
Profits: The production objective is based on an aquaculture facility consisting of 24 (52,000 gallon) circular raceway tanks located on five acres. The concentrated floor space of a unit is 30,000 sq ft. The product raised to commercial level to market size from one unit is sufficient to produce 15,000 tons of fish with an additional 8,000 tons of organic food plants (if an aquaponics segment is included). The aquaponic segment can also act as pollution control that can mitigate equipment costs for pollution control.
Other sources of income for the plan: In 1998 Japan imported 15 M (US) barrels in fish and fish products. Gonads developed from cultured sea urchins are a Japanese delicacy and command prices equivalent to prime filet mignon steaks. China Sea Cucumber demand is much larger than that of the Japanese demand for Gonads, and thus offers further opportunities for sea-borne aqua-production systems aboard vessels.
World Trade & Countertrade Center: The American Internax Planning Corp (AIP) in a strategic alliance with The Capricorn Canopy Consortium, an affiliate company, has successfully pursued sales in targeted countries in South America, Asia, and Africa, together with serious inquiries from Spain, Portugal, and Morocco for the sale and positing of turkey operations of an enclosed aquaculture facility as described. In the case of South America, Africa (Kenya and Uganda with support from South Africa), purchase orders together with substantial consideration have been secured by the consortium. The sales are based on pro forma plans and designs of an operating commercial facility to be capable of producing 100,000 lbs of commercial product per module daily according to market demand domestically and globally generated.
