Sponsors 2017
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!
Stena RoRo
Stena RoRo sets the standard in the RoRo- & RoPax 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. Innovators of the RoRo-concept, building RoRo- and RoPax tonnage, supplying tailor-made solutions - all over the globe. The fleet of Stena RoRo are chartered out to first class operators around the world.
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, Stena RoRo's trademark.
We are the operators first choice when it comes to ship supply.
TTS Marine AB
TTS Group is an international corporation that provides world class handling solutions and hull access systems for the marine and offshore industries. TTS is one of the top three largest suppliers in its specialized market segments. TTS has a worldwide network of branch offices, service stations and agents. It provides after sales services covering the major shipping regions of the world.
TTS Marine AB, part of the TTS Group, is located in Gothenburg, Sweden and is a world-leading designer and supplier of cargo and passenger access equipment to new builds and conversions to the world's fleet of RoRo, cruise and navy vessels. We deliver on-board equipment such as all types of ramps, internal and external doors, platforms, movable car decks, cargo lifts, hangar doors and davits, all backed up by a comprehensive service and after sales network. Port equipment is another key segment where we design and deliver linkspans, passenger gangways and auto mooring.
Brax Shipping
Brax Shipping, established in 1982 and located in Gothenburg, Sweden,
is a team of shipbrokers specialized in the sale & purchase and chartering
of: Ferries, Ropax:es, Cruise ships and Roro:s
We can also offer newbuilding programs in
the Ropax-, and cruise segments. Projecting and design fully tailored to the preferences of
the Client.
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.
ACTEMIUM OPS
Actemium Electro AB is part of the brand Actemium and is a company of the VINCI Energies Nordic since 2012. We are ca. 45 employees with an annual turnover of 10 million Euro. We have offices and workshops in the Stora Höga 50km north Gothenburg, but working across the country. Under the www.actemium.se and www.actemium.com you can find more information about both our sister companies and our parent company. Actemium Electro AB started its business in 2001 and we are a certified electrician for low voltage and medium voltage. We are working with electricity, telecommunication systems and automation for the harbors/ports, process industry and infrastructure. We carry heavy electrical installations in both industry and infrastructure, where our certified and experienced electricians all services. Data and fiber installations are also areas that we are certified and have extensive experience. Since 2010, we work within the OPS (Onshore Power Supply) as our speciality a turnkey solutions, we have built and operating 13st plants in Sweden, Norway and France. We are ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001
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.
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
About DNV
Driven by our purpose of safeguarding life, property and the environment, DNV enables organizations to advance the safety and sustainability of their business. We provide classification, technical assurance, software and independent expert advisory services to the maritime, oil & gas and energy industries. We also provide certification services to customers across a wide range of industries. Operating in more than 100 countries, our professionals are dedicated to helping our customers make the world safer, smarter and greener.
About DNV – Maritime
DNV is the world’s leading classification society and a recognized advisor for the maritime industry. We enhance safety, quality, energy efficiency and environmental performance of the global shipping industry – across all vessel types and offshore structures. We invest heavily in research and development to find solutions, together with the industry, that address strategic, operational or regulatory challenges.
Grandi Navi Veloci S.p.A.
GNV is one of the leading Italian shipping companies operating in the fields of coastal navigation and passenger transport in the Mediterranean Sea. Established in 1992 and today part of Aponte Group, GNV operates 11 ferries and provides 5 domestic routes and 10 international routes, with connections to and from Sicily, Sardinia, France, Spain, Albania, Morocco and Tunisia. With 1,200 employees and a turnover of over 300 million € per year, GNV is the 3rd Company of ferries in the world as capacity in linear meters, the 2nd as fleet tonnage and 3rd for the number of available beds.
www.gnv.it
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.
Onorato Armatori Srl
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, France, Malta, the Tuscan archipelago, and the Tremiti islands thanks to 46 vessels, all registered under the Italian flag. For 2017 the Group’s ferries are planned to have 41,000 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
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.
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
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 2016 3.500 ship calls, 2.1 million passengers (new record – again!), 542.000 salon cars (new record – again!), 230.000 trucks (new record – again!) and 3.5 million tonnes of goods (new record – again!) were registered. We have still more capacity – for you too. Welcome!