Christina Prieser is head of the competence centre transport economics at HPC Hamburg Port Consulting with a focus on business planning and privatisation. During her more than 25 years of experience in ports, shipping, and logistics, she successfully delivered over 30 market forecast and competition studies as well as more than 15 financial analyses and business cases to governments, financing institutions and private clients in the framework of container, multipurpose, and bulk terminal developments worldwide. Furthermore, she was involved in several transaction advisory services for international terminal concessions. Her work experience ranges from projects in several European countries to Latin America (Argentina, Brazil, Guyana, Haiti), (Asia Bangladesh, India, Philippines, Sri Lanka), and Africa (Algeria, Angola, Ghana, Namibia, Sudan). Most recently she has been working on the feasibility study and transaction advisory for the greenfield port in Cherchell, Algeria. Furthermore, she was project manager and successfully completed the business planning and privatisation of the container terminal in Port Sudan. Presently, Christina is project manager for a greenfield container and bulk terminal development from scratch to operational in South America.