Sponsors 2015
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.
Carus
Address: P.O. Box 195, Östra Esplanadgatan 7
Postcode: FI-22101
City: Mariehamn
Country: Finland
Tel: +358 20 7107 800
Fax.: +358 20 7107 827
www: www.carus.com
e-mail: sales@carus.com
Contact Name(s): Anders Rundberg, John Bertell, Keith Sherwood
Nature of business: IT solutions for ferry operators
Carus is dedicated to providing the tools to manage the relationship between the passenger vessel operator and its clients. With this aim, and focusing on the client, we have identified the various solutions required to do this.
Carus provides a wide range of advanced products to support the sales and business processes of all types of ferry and cruise operators. This includes reservations, departure control, onboard sales, ecommerce, CRM and port automation. Carus offers a consulting arm with some of the most respected Boardroom Level Global ferry experts, who can advise on all aspects of your business.
For over a decade Carus has been serving a growing client base, which includes operators in the Baltics, the UK, mainland Europe, the Mediterranean, the United States, Australia and Africa. Our clients represent the full spectrum of the ferry industry proving the versatility and flexibility of our product.
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 13,500 professionals dedicated to helping their customers make the world safer, smarter and greener.
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.
P&O Ferries Ltd
Address: Channel House, Channel View Road
Postcode: CT17 9TJ
City: Dover
Country: United Kingdom
Tel: 01304 863000
www: www.POferries.com
e-mail: info@POferries.com
Contact Name(s): Ian Rabbidge
Nature of business: Ferry operator
P&O Ferries is the UK's largest ferry operator, carrying nine million passengers each year on an extensive network of tourist and freight services to Belgium, France, Netherlands and across the Irish Sea.
The company has a fleet of 20 modern ships from dedicated freighters to fast and frequent, high-capacity superferries and luxurious cruiseferries serving all the key gateways into northern Europe and across the Irish Sea via nine routes.
All ships offer the ultimate in passenger convenience and comfort with a wide range of on-board facilities including restaurants, lounges and shops.
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.
RINA Services S.P.A
RINA SERVICES S.p.A. is the RINA company that delivers services of classification, certification, testing and inspection (TIC Services) to guarantee excellence to organisations in the marine, environment and energy, infrastructures, transport and logistics, quality and safety and agri-food sectors.
As a result of our ongoing investments in R&D and training, we have consolidated exceptional skills in certifying management systems, products, installations and personnel for companies of all sizes operating anywhere in the world, at the same time developing our core business of ship classification and certification.
As third-party, independent company, we deliver our services in full compliance with the principles of professional ethics, transparency, confidentiality and social accountability.
RINA is one of the founders of IACS (International Association of Classification Societies), that since 1968 makes a unique contribution to maritime safety and regulation through technical activities, compliance verification, research and development.
Callenberg Technology Group
An international provider of Insulation, HVAC and Electrical Energy Management solutions for the maritime, offshore & energy markets.
Callenberg Technology Group delivers solutions that support our customers to be more competitive in their markets.
We are authoritative in the markets we operate, continuously innovate and deliver project management excellence. We engage approximately 1200 employees in 12 countries.
Callenberg Technology Group is wholly owned by Wilhelmsen Maritime Services, a Wilh. Wilhelmsen Group company.
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!
ABB Marine & Ports
ABB Marine & Ports is a pioneering maritime organization, which is transforming the industry through electrical, digital and connected solutions. ABB’s innovative technologies are redefining the future, bringing new levels of reliability, efficiency and sustainability to shipping and making our ports and terminals safer, greener and more productive.
ABB offers an extensive portfolio of integrated marine systems and solutions that improve the flexibility, reliability and energy efficiency of vessels. By coupling power, automation and advisory, proven fuel-efficient technologies and services that ensure maximum vessel uptime, ABB is in a unique position to improve the profitability of our customers’ businesses throughout the entire lifecycle of a fleet.
Maritime Communications Partner (MCP)
Address: Nygaten 4
Postcode: 4838
City: Arendal
Country: Norway
Tel: +47 370 90 000
Fax.: +47 370 90 001
www: www.mcp.com
e-mail: post@mcp.com
Contact Name(s): Jan Erik Norli, Roar Walderhaug
Nature of business: Telecommunications
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
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.
We deliver onboard equipment such as 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.
We also deliver port equipment like linkspans, passenger gangways and automooring.
STENA RORO
Visiting address: STENA DENMARK TERMINAL
Postcode: SE-405 19
City: GOTHENBURG
Country: SWEDEN
Tel: +46-31-85 50 00
www: WWW.STENARORO.COM
e-mail: chartering.roro@stena.com
Contact Name: Ann-Sofie Forss
Nature of business: Shipowners
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.
RED BULL GMBH
Address: AM BRUNNEN 1,
Postcode: 5330
City: FUSCHL AM SEE
Country: AUSTRIA
Tel: +447870 150 925
www: redbull.com
e-mail: sinead.butler@at.redbull.com
Contact Name(s): Sinead Butler
Nature of business: Energy Drinks
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 6 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!
Hogia Ferry Systems
The Hogia Group is a Swedish standard software supplier with 600+ employees, going on our 40th year in the business. Hogia is showing continuous and long term growth in terms of product offering and global presence and we offer a unique range of business critical products for the travel and transport sector. Internationally, Hogia provide ferry operators with reservation and ticketing systems, advanced real time passenger information systems and terminal operating solutions for ports.
One of Hogia Ferry System’s key strengths is integrations, as we see this as a way to the future. With our extensive BOOKIT API, the integration possibilities are nearly endless. Today it is used for ticket machines, mobile check-in, web booking engines to name just a few. An important objective for Hogia Ferry Systems is to develop solutions that will enable the ferry operators to improve the traveller's experience, from booking to informed arrival at the final destination.
We work in partnership with the operators and our systems are designed to reduce the people-power needed to provide the services, enabling key staff to focus on delivering the very best passenger experience.
FINCANTIERI S.p.A.
Address: via Genova n.1
Postcode: 34121
City: TRIESTE
Country: ITALY
Tel: +39.040.3193111
Fax.: +39.040.3193851
www: fincantieri.com
e-mail: giorgio.arena@fincantieri.it webmaster@fincantieri.it
Contact Name: Mr Giorgio Oreste ARENA, Executive Vice President – Merchant Ships Sales@Marketing, attending the Shipping Conference
Nature of business: Shipbuilding
Fincantieri is one of the world's largest shipbuilding groups, as well as the first producer by diversification and presence in all high value-added sectors. It is world leader in cruise ship construction and a reference player in other sectors, from naval vessels to cruise ferries, from megayachts to special high value-added vessels, ship repairs and conversions and offshore. Headquartered in Trieste, the Group has about 21,700 employees, of whom about 7,700 in Italy, and 21 shipyards in 4 continents. In Italy alone it has eight shipyards and two design centers, one in Trieste, the largest in Europe, and the other in Genoa. Since 2002 Fincantieri has built or has orders to build more than 100 ships, worth a total of Euro 24 billion, and has developed dozens of prototypes in the various business segments in which it is present.
Wärtsilä Corporation
Visiting Address: John Stenbergin ranta 2
Address: P.O. Box 196
Postcode: FI-00531
City: Helsinki
Country: Finland
Tel: +358 10 709 0000
Fax.: +358 10 709 5700
www: www.wartsila.com
Contact Name(s): Mr. Wilco van der Linden, General Manager Business Development, tel. +31 41 638 8529, email: wilco.vanderlinden@wartsila.com
Nature of business: Provider of lifecycle power solutions for the marine and energy markets
Wärtsilä is a global leader in complete lifecycle power solutions for the marine and energy markets. By emphasising technological innovation and total efficiency, Wärtsilä maximizes the environmental and economic performance of the vessels and power plants of its customers. In 2014, Wärtsilä's net sales totalled EUR 4.8 billion with approximately 17,700 employees. The company has operations in more than 200 locations in nearly 70 countries around the world. Wärtsilä is listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki, Finland.
MTN
Company name: MTN
Address: 3044 N. Commerce Parkway
Postcode: 33025
City: Miramar, Florida
Country: United States
Tel: +1 954-538-4000
Fax: +1 954-431-4077
www: mtnsat.com
e-mail: ian.maxson-davies@mtnsat.com, Ian.Watson@mtnsat.com
Contact Name(s): Ian Maxson-Davies, Ian Watson
Nature of business: Maritime Communications
MTN is the leading provider of communications and content services for remote locations around the world. The company serves the following segments -- Cruise, Ferries, Yachts, Oil and Gas, Commercial Shipping and Government. MTN brings a proven, time-tested ability to drive change that catapults customers to lead their markets through innovation, delivery of quality services, revenue maximization and operational efficiencies. A commitment to ongoing investment in technology infrastructure forges MTN ahead of growing market demands. Since launching the first stabilized satellite antenna for broadband service to ships in the 1980s, MTN has pioneered reliable remote connectivity technologies that become long-standing solutions.
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