Sponsors 2016
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 6 billion cans worldwide in 2015.
Red Bull are currently launching their new product range Red Bull Editions in Lime, Blueberry, Cranberry and Tropical 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!
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.
Brax Shipping
Brax Shipping, established in 1982 and located in Gothenburg, Sweden, is a team of shipbrokers specialized in the sale and purchase and chartering of:
Ferries
Cruise ships
Fast ferries
Roro:s
At the moment we are lunching a newbuilding concept offering a favorable oppurtunity to order and construct Ropax-ferries and Cruise ships, fully tailored to the preferences of the client.
We also fulfil the roles of advisory
Callenberg Technology Group
Callenberg is an award winning expert in ship optimization with decades of know-how in designing efficient HVAC, Electrical and Automation plants, paired with smart automation and benchmarking systems. Our energy upgrades save more than 250 million kwh, 50 000 tonnes of fuel and 160 000 tonnes CO2 every year for our customers. We pride ourselves on being authoritative in the markets we operate, continuously innovating and delivering project management excellence. We engage approximately 1200 employees in 13 countries.
Callenberg Technology Group delivers solutions that supports our customers to be more competitive in their markets.
Carus
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, on-board POS, e-commerce, CRM and port automation. Carus’ consulting panel have a team of some of the most respected global ferry experts who have operated at boardroom level, able to advise on all aspects of your business.
For almost two decades, Carus has been serving a growing client base across four continents, serving more than 30 million passengers and five million vehicles every year. Our clients span all operational niches of the passenger vessel industry.
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.
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.
Levante Ferries
Levante Ferries is a new, innovative company in the Greek passenger ferry sector comprised by a strong team of young execs of high potential and proven experience and expertise in business administration and management as well as high quality customer service.
At present, Levante Ferries trades in the Ionian Sea, and has committed in servicing all passengers in the most respectful, consummate and advanced way, aiming to offer the best and most reliable sea transport services both to island residents and to all visitors coming from all around the globe.
Levante Ferries team does not linger; instead it is always in the frontline of new developments of the next era in the shipping sector, with a structured and well-organized strategy for growth and development.
Levante Ferries’ vision is to render the Ionian Sea transports an archetype and a benchmark reference for high quality services in Greece and throughout the world!
Marioff Corporation Oy
Marioff is the world’s largest supplier of water mist fire protection technology, with unrivalled experience supplying system solutions worldwide under the HI-FOG® brand. HI-FOG® has the ability to safely control and suppress fire by discharging a fine water mist, which uses significantly less water than conventional sprinkler systems, at high velocity and is suitable for most types of fires on land and at sea.
Marioff is part of UTC Building & Industrial Systems, a unit of United Technologies Corp.
Onorato Armatori
Moby, Tirrenia-CIN and Toremar are companies owned by the Italian holding company Onorato Armatori, which has been a leader in passenger and cargo maritime transportation for five generations. Ranking first worldwide in terms of number of beds and first in Europe with regard to passenger capacity, the Onorato Group employees up to 4,000 people, all Italian, including seasonal employees. Through these three companies, the Group connects Sardinia, Sicily, Corsica, the Tuscan archipelago, and the Tremiti islands thanks to 47 vessels, all registered under the Italian flag. In 2016 the Group’s ferries can boast 41,000 scheduled departures to 30 ports. The Fast Cruises Ferries are among the best in the world in terms of quality: Moby was indeed awarded the 2015/2016 Quality Seal and the prestigious Green Start on its three flagships. The Onorato Group also owns a fleet of 17 latest-generation tugboats providing ship manoeuvring and rescue services in nine Italian ports. Through its subsidiary Sinergest, Moby also manages the Isola Bianca maritime station in the port of Olbia.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 maximizes the environmental and economic performance of the vessels and power plants of its customers. In 2015, Wärtsilä's net sales totalled EUR 5.0 billion with approximately 18,900 employees. The company has operations in more than 200 locations in nearly 70 countries around the world. Wärtsilä is listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki.
Port of Ystad
Address: Bornholmsgatan 6
Postcode: SE-271 39
City: Ystad
Country: Sweden
Tel: +46 411 180 80
Fax.: +46 411 749 50
www: www.port.ystad.se
e-mail: port@ystad.se
Contact Names: Björn Boström – CEO
Michael Törnfeldt – COO / Master Mariner
Nature of business: Port authority and stevedoring
Port of Ystad is located on the south coast of Sweden, very close to the bustling Bornholm strait. The port is Sweden’s 11th biggest port on cargo volumes. 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 2015 3.600 ship calls, 1.98 million passengers (new record – again!), 205.000 trucks and 3.1 million tonnes of goods were registered. We have still more capacity – for you too. Welcome!