Sponsors 2014
Rolls-Royce
Rolls-Royce has a world leading range of capabilities in the marine market, encompassing vessel design, the integration of complex systems and the supply and support of power and propulsion equipment. We are leaders in mission-critical systems for offshore oil and gas rigs, offshore, merchant and naval vessels.
Today the Rolls-Royce marine product range is one of the broadest in the world. 70 of the world’s maritime forces and over 30,000 commercial vessels use our equipment. Our global support network underpins all activities and continues to expand with 50 centres in 28 countries with more planned.
Fidelio Cruise Software GmbH
MICROS Ferry Nordic is a leading supplier of on-board sales and logistic systems for ferry companies in the Nordic Countries. MICROS Ferry Nordic has team up with Fidelio Cruise Software GmbH, global leader in IT solutions for the cruise industry. The two companies have developed cutting-edge IT solutions especially dedicated to the ferry industry.
MICROS Ferry Nordic and Fidelio Cruise Software GmbH are both subsidiaries of MICROS Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: MCRS), world market leader in enterprise-wide applications, services and hardware for the hospitality and retail industries.
MICROS solutions are utilized in over 567,000 hotels, casinos, table and quick service restaurants, retail, leisure and entertainment, fuel and convenience, cruise, and travel operations in more than 180 countries, and on all seven continents. MICROS combines its industry knowledge and expertise to provide cloud-based, mobile and on premise solutions that allow its clients to streamline operations and successfully engage their customers.
Port of Ystad
Port of Ystad is situated on the south coast of Sweden, very close to the bustling Bornholm strait. The port is Sweden’s 10th biggest port on goods volumes and hit yet a record in 2013. Furthermore, the port is number three related to ferry passengers due to the eminent ferry services of BornholmerFærgen, Unity Line and Polferries. Eventually, Port of Ystad is the utmost port for daily ferry service between Sweden and Poland. Port of Ystad offers daily ferry connections with Poland and the Danish island of Bornholm as well as stevedoring service for conventional bulk and general cargo vessels. Five ferry berths with connecting passenger terminals, conventional quays, loading equipment e.g. mobile crane capacity of 40 tonnes and dedicated port and stevedoring staff are available. During 2013 3.503 ship calls, 1.7 million passengers, 204.000 trucks and 3.2 million tonnes of goods were registered. We have still more capacity – for you too. Welcome!
Maritime Communications Partner (MCP)
Maritime Communications Partner (MCP) is the leading on-board communications partner. The company has developed unique technical solutions, providing mobile telephony coverage for people on-board major cruise ships and ferries worldwide, delivering a premium service to MCP’s customers. MCP is now utilising its market proven expertise to serve clients in the dynamic offshore sector. Our offices are located centrally in Arendal, Norway and Miami, (FL) USA. MCP is fully owned by Telenor ASA, one of the world’s major mobile operators. Through Telenor, MCP has access to a wide range of competence and resources within market, product, innovation and content development. For more information about MCP, please visit: www.mcp.com
DNV GL
Driven by its purpose of safeguarding life, property and the environment, DNV GL enables organizations to advance the safety and sustainability of their business. DNV GL provides classification and technical assurance along with software and independent expert advisory services to the maritime, oil & gas and energy industries. It also provides certification services to customers across a wide range of industries.
Combining leading technical and operational expertise, risk methodology and in-depth industry knowledge, DNV GL empowers its customers’ decisions and actions with trust and confidence. The company continuously invests in research and collaborative innovation to provide customers and society with operational and technological foresight. DNV GL, whose origins go back to 1864, operates globally in more than 100 countries with its 16,000 professionals dedicated to helping their customers make the world safer, smarter and greener.
Carus
Carus is focused on the passenger vessel industry, providing a wide range of advanced IT solutions for sales and process support for any ferry operator, including solutions for reservations, departure control, onboard sales, ecommerce and port automation. Our solutions are constantly evolving to meet the ever changing operational and market demands of our clients.
The Carus systems are tried and tested solutions that provides the necessary 24/7 reliability that our clients expect from the mission critical applications, especially when delivered via our managed services in Europe and the USA.
For over a decade Carus have been serving a growing client base which includes operators in the Baltics, UK, mainland Europe, the United States, Australia and Africa. Carus clients cover every aspect of the ferry industry and operate virtually every type of vessel proving the versatility and flexibility of our solutions.
AS Tallink Grupp
Tallink Grupp is the leading European ferry operator in offering high quality short cruise and passenger transport services in the Baltic Sea region as well as a leading provider of ro-ro cargo services on selected routes. The Group provides its services on various routes between Finland and Sweden, Estonia and Finland, Estonia and Latvia as well as Latvia and Sweden under the brand names of Tallink and Silja Line. The Group has a total of 18 vessels that include cruise ferries, high speed ro-pax ferries and ro-ro cargo vessels. In addition, the Group operates four hotels in Tallinn and one in Riga.
Wärtsilä Corporation
Wärtsilä is a global leader in complete lifecycle power solutions for the marine and energy markets. By emphasising technological innovation and total efficiency, Wärtsilä maximises the environmental and economic performance of the vessels and power plants of its customers. In 2013, Wärtsilä’s net sales totalled EUR 4.7 billion with approximately 18,700 employees. The company has operations in nearly 200 locations in 70 countries around the world. Wärtsilä is listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki, Finland.
Brax Shipping
The independent Shipbrokarage Brax Shipping, established in January 1982, focus on:
- Roros
- Ferries
- High Speed
- Cruise vessels
We are well recognized within our niche and has an exstensive knowledge of our markets and a vast international network.
Please feel free to contact us when it comes to:
- Sale and Purchase
- Chartering
- Newbuilding
- Valutaion
- Consultancy
We would be delighted to assist you and provide you with our full support thoroghout the buisness process.
All the brokers are Captians with experince from the sea and a solid background as shipbrokers, a fact our clients benefit from.
Stena RoRo
Stena RoRo sets the standard in the RoRo market. With the solid know how combined with its intuitive feel for innovation and for the demands and requirements; Stena RoRo takes the market forward.
Stenability is Stena RoRo’s trademark. Innovators of the RoRo concept, building RoRo and RoPax tonnage, supplying tailor-made solutions - all over the world. The fleet of Stena RoRo, mainly RoPax and RoRo vessels, are chartered out to first class operators around the globe. All through the organization there is an entrepreneurial way of working and an intrinsic will of taking customer satisfaction to a new level. Thanks to its commercial and technical approach and long earned experience; Stena RoRo follows their customers - all through the value chain. That’s what Stenability is all about. We are the operators first choice when it comes to ship supply.
Versonix Corporation
Versonix SEAWARE is the business rules based reservation software system with Sales, Marketing, CRM and Revenue/Yield management for passengers, cars and cargo inventories. Utilizing an innovative and patented rules-based system, Seaware can be customized to support specific business goals and allow dynamic and real-time responses to an ever-changing world market. Enhancing customer relations is effortless using any of Seaware’s Sales and Marketing, Reservations, or Yield and Revenue Management functionalities. From reservation to check-in, to management reports to car deck optimization; Seaware allows you to manage your business your way. The Seaware rule-based reservation solution delivers industry-leading Yield Management, Cargo Handling and Customer Relationship/ Loyalty Program. Seaware provides a complete, reliable and flexible platform that allows companies to boost operating efficiencies, profits, and customer satisfaction.
Seaware serves as a common point for all distribution channels including the Internet, handheld, self-service kiosk, GDS and call center.
ABB Oy, Marine & Cranes
ABB, business unit Marine and Cranes, is a leading manufacturer of electric power, propulsion and vessel control systems for ships and offshore vessels. Our product portfolio includes such brand names as Azipod® propulsion system and EMMA™ Advisory Suite as well as our new Onboard DC Grid system. We are a global maritime organization, providing innovative, reliable, safe and environmentally-friendly solutions and qualified services to save energy and reduce operational costs as well as to ensure optimum vessel lifecycle for our customers. With direct presence and dedicated Marine Service Centers strategically located throughout the world, ABB provides lifecycle service and support wherever your business takes you.
Hogia Ferry Systems Ab
Hogia Transport Systems is one of the three business areas in the Hogia Group and is showing rapid, continuous and long term growth in terms of product offering and global presence. We offer a unique range of business critical standard software products for travel and tourism, road transportation, port and rail terminal managment systems as well as third party logistics, which is unparalleled by any other European software company.
Our software solutions enable our customers to provide continuous service to tens of millions of individual end users and customers worldwide. We are a powerful partner to both private and public organisations in the transport industry with the goal to to create functional and cost efficient operations.
Over the past ten years, the Hogia Group has invested a total of € 30 million in the development of business critical standard software products for the passenger and cargo transport industries.
TTS Marine AB
TTS Marine AB, located in Gothenburg Sweden, is a world-leading designer and supplier of cargo and passenger access equipment to the world’s fleet of PCTCs, RoRo, RoPax and Cruise vessels. Our product range includes ramps for stern, side, bow and internal access applications, internal and external doors and platforms, movable car decks and cargo lifts, all backed up by a comprehensive service and after sales network.
An early involvement of TTS in the RoRo project guarantees an efficient cargo flow solution and optimized ship arrangement.
Wilhelm Borchert GmbH
Established back in the early 1930’s, Wilhelm Borchert GmbH is the umbrella for an interdisciplinary group of highly qualified experts providing consultancy and management services primarily for the transport, logistics and trade sectors today.
Our range of management and strategic transport and logistics consultancy services includes all tasks of the complete project cycle: analysis and evaluation – concept and planning – financing and investment – implementation, execution and verification – evaluation and correction. Operational, economic and environmental as well as public issues are thereby equally familiar to us.
Together with our mainly European customers and global partners, we strive for the realization of mutual benefits and added value, regardless of whether at a local, national or international level.
Red Bull GmbH
Red Bull is the world’s no. 1 Energy drink. Launched in 1987, this was not only the launch of a completely new product, in fact it was the birth of a totally new product category. Red Bull is present in over 160 countries and sold over 5 billion cans worldwide in 2012.
Red Bull are currently launching their new product range Red Bull Editions in Lime, Blueberry and Cranberry flavours, to attract new consumers to the category and drive incremental growth. We continue to employ around 5,000 students every year to gain first hand work experience within our Wings team as well as exciting consumers with our F1 teams. We continue to invest in our brand so that we can give people Wiiings worldwide!
Bureau Veritas, Marine & Offshore
Bureau Veritas is a world leader in Testing, Inspection and Certification services. Bureau Veritas group generated in 2013 a revenue of 3.9 EUR billion has 61,000 employees and over 370,000 customers in many different industries across the world.
Bureau Veritas specializes in QHSE SA management (quality, health & safety, environment and social accountability). Its mission is to assist its clients with the management of their assets, personnel, systems and processes, products and services.
Within the Maritime & Offshore field, its objectives are to improve and maintain standards in providing a large range of services:
- Classification of ships and offshore units
- Certification and issuance of statutory certificates on behalf of more than 125 Government and Flag authorities;
- Technical assistance services and consulting;
- Information systems and services with its VeriSTAR familly software;
Training facilities in the marine technical and regulatory field.
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TTS PORT EQUIPMENT AB
TTS Port Equipment is designing, delivering, installing and commissioning equipment for handling of passengers and cargo. The equipment is cost and time saving solutions for efficient handling between shore and ship in Ports and RoRo Terminals for Ferries, Ropax, RoRo and Cruise vessels. The port superstructures are Linkspans, Passenger Gangways and Automoorings. For the container terminals we offer horizontal handling of container by the unique cassette system.
TTS Port Equipment offer Ports and Operators consultancy services to optimize and create cost and time efficient solutions in an early stage of the developing process for handling of the total flow of the Passengers and Cargo.
TTS Port Equipment is providing extensive services in means of spare parts, maintenance agreement and repair works.
Wilhelmsen Technichal Solutions Sweden AB
Wilhelmsen Technical Solutions with brand such as: Callenberg, UNITOR,TI Group and Maritime Protection is a global provider of cost efficient, fully engineered solutions, equipment and services. Our expertise includes fire suppression and prevention, electrical & automation and HVAC-R for newbuilds and retrofits in the maritime and offshore industries.
Through our core competences we design, produce, install and commission our own solutions, and ensure worldwide support and maintenance.
At locations in Asia, Americas and Europe, our technical sales teams, localised engineering teams, highly trained commissioning and service engineers have in-depth experience with our products and services to assist your local needs.
Our offer to shipyards and owners include a wide range of solutions, equipment and services for every phase of the life cycle of your vessel, rig or platform.
KNUD E. HANSEN
KNUD E. HANSEN A/S Naval Architects, Designers & Marine Engineers - since 1937.
KNUD E. HANSEN A/S is a leading consultancy providing a comprehensive range of design, engineering and project management services to shipyards and ship owners around the world. Our innovative, customised solutions cover areas ranging from the building and conversion of all types of maritime vessels and offshore structures to energy optimisation and services for the offshore wind industry.
Our approach is based on a combination of continuous innovation, the free exchange of ideas with our clients, and experience derived from many years spent working with every kind of vessel and maritime operator. Using these, we apply fresh thinking to each new project and tailor solutions that are both state-of-the-art and practical to meet the exact needs of each individual customer.
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