Sponsors 2010
Color Line as
Color Line AS is Norway’s largest and one of Europe’s leading cruise and transport shipping companies, with about 2 600 man-years in four countries. Annual sales are around 4.7 billion NOK.
After a strategic reorganization in 2008, the company deploys a total of six ships on four routes linking seven ports in four countries; Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Germany.
Color Line operates in the fields of passengers and goods, conference, hotel management, restaurants, retailing, entertainment and organized tour production. Color Line has in the period 2004 - 2008 invested 7.5 billion NOK in new ships and concepts.
The company’s vision is to be the best cruise and transport company in Europe.
Brax Shipping
Brax Shipping, established in January 1982, is an independent shipbroking company. We aim to engage our clients in close, long-lasting business relationships based on our proven ability to guide to successful and profitable solutions.
We are specialized in the ferry, RoRo and cruise vessel segments and our accumulated knowledge renders us a unique position and we are considered to be among the leaders within our niche.
Extensive knowledge of our markets, market actors and technology combined with a vast international network enables us to provide information and know-how to actively support the entire process from decision making via negotiations to the finalization and follow-through of an acquisition or a charter.
Focusing on sale & purchase and chartering of vessels has allowed us to build a solid base of world-wide clients among ship owners, operators and charterers. In addition, the contracting of newbuildings with shipyards as well as the challenging task of scrapping assignments has given us a full perspective of all commercial aspects of a vessel’s life cycle. In addition, we utilize our knowledge through advisory consultations and valuations for banks, lawyers, and financing institutions.
Our background is mainly from ship owning companies, a fact we believe helps us identify opportunities for our clients – both present and prospective.
Carus PBS Ab Ltd
Carus is totally focused on the passenger shipping industry providing advanced reservations and departure control solutions that are constantly evolving to meet the ever changing operational demands of our clients.
The Carus system, CarRes, is a tried and tested solution that provides the 24/7 reliability required of mission critical applications especially when delivered via our hosting 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 and Australia. Carus clients cover every aspect of the ferry industry and operate virtually every type of vessel proving the versatility and flexibility of CarRes.
Carus are proud of their stable solutions, services and finances and look forward to demonstrating how these can benefit your organisation.
Det Norske Veritas
DNV is not only renowned as one of world’s leading class societies, it also pays special interest to ferries and the well-being of the industries supporting passenger-carrying vessels. Our prime assets are the creativity, knowledge, and expertise of our employees. Most of our 9000 employees are highly qualified engineers and technical personnel. DNV is an international company with about 300 offices in 100 different countries. Headquartered in Oslo (Høvik), Norway, DNV’s global network is linked by efficient information technology enabling us to create value for our customers in a coherent and consistent manner worldwide.
H+H Umwelt & Industrietechnik GmbH
The H+H Umwelt- und Industrietechnik GmbH
at Hargesheim (Germany) designs and provides SCR (Selective Catalytic Reduction) exhaust gas treatment systems for the NOx reduction of vessels, combined heat and power plant ( CHP ) and industrial application. Furthermore we could deliver special catalysts for the purification of exhaust gases and air, soot filters and offers project related engineering & services. With more than 160 vessels, we are the most experienced manufacture of catalytic converters for NOx reduction from marine applications.
Our aim is to produce and to deliver economically affordable and high quality Catalytic Systems for the treatment of exhaust gases. As a competent partner working close with our customers, we would like to provide an important contribution to our environmental protection.
“H+H- SCR Systems from the expert!”
Hogia Ferry Systems
Hogia is this year celebrating its 30th year in the IT industry and has for more than 20 years been active with IT systems for the ferry and transport industry. More than 12 million passengers per year as well as vehicles and cargo units are served by Hogia’s customers on four continents. Hogia provides a standard software application for full sales and operations support in a ferry business including booking, ticket sales, payment registration, check in, embarkation, back-office and financial routines, Customer Management and Data Warehouse modules. Together with our sister companies in the Hogia Transport business sector we serve ferries, port terminals, public transports and logistic providers with mission critical systems for the whole transport industry providing seamless chains of information over the full chain of multi-modal transport from producer to consumer. Being close partners to major IT and technology providers in the travel sector like Amadeus and VingCard, Hogia offer an extensive IT solution for any travel or transport company.
Incat Tasmania Pty Ltd
20 years ago in 1990 we crossed the Atlantic in record time to deliver the first fast cary ferry to Europe. 10 years later we carried the first trucks at high speed with our 96 metre.
20 years of development after the Atlantic achievement we introduce the eco ship 130.
Incat’s ecoship 130 now offers the capacity to carry large numbers of commercial vehicles, rigid articulated vehicles, vans and lorries at lower operational costs. The ecoship 130 is a signficant development, a real coming of age, the new wave of fast, lighweight, fuel efficient fast ships.
KONE Marine
KONE Marine provides innovative and eco-efficient solutions for elevators and escalators. We support our customers every step of the way from design, manufacturing and installation to maintenance and modernization. KONE is a global leader in helping our customers manage the smooth flow of people and goods throughout their ships.
In 2010 KONE celebrates its 100 years anniversary. Over these years, KONE has proven its ability to adapt to a changing world as well as to create new opportunities. Stable ownership by four generations of the same family has created a strong and supportive environment for continuous development. We are fast, flexible, and have a well-deserved reputation as a technology leader, with such innovations as KONE MonoSpace®, KONE MiniSpace™, KONE EcoDisc® and modular Plug-in installation.
MEIKO Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG
With over eighty years of warewashing experience, you can rely on MEIKO for all of your warewashing needs.
MEIKO’s unparalleled line-up of professional dishwashing appliances, tray conveyors, sorting systems and food-waste systems brings you manufacturing excellence, economy of operation, unique design features and user-friendly concepts.
The product range for all applications: Machines for stationary washing operations, automatic conveyor type washing machines, integrated dishwashing systems, tray conveyor and sorting systems, waste treatment installations, industrial kitchen equipment.
Nordea Bank Norge ASA
Shipping, Oil Services and International Division
Nordea is the largest financial services group in the Nordic region and one of the world’s largest arrangers of international debt transactions for the shipping and offshore industries.
Through our offices in Oslo, Bergen, Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Helsinki, London, New York and Singapore, we provide a diversified range of financial services to our worldwide group of clients.
Sartori & Berger / Voigt Seereisen-Agentur
Sartori & Berger is Germany’s leading port agency network offering a vast portfolio of services dedicated to the ferry and cruise industry. Among its clients are several renowned ferry operator: Color Line, Scandlines and Tallink Silja Line. Services provided to these clients comprise port agency attendance, terminal operations and cargo handling, moreover Sartori & Berger is Color Line Cargo’s Continental Freight Agent.
As cruise ship agent Sartori & Berger attends Germany’s main cruise hubs along with small high-class seaside resorts located all along the coastline. The cruise-related service scope covers everything from port agency attendance to passenger meet & greet, shore excursions and ground handling. Since 2009 S&B is 50% shareholder of Voigt Seereisen-Agentur, one of Germany’s leading sales agencies in the cruise & ferry branch. Voigt Seereisen-Agentur is expanding quickly and has been appointed premium sales agent for several renowned passenger shipping companies.
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 is chartered out to first class operators. All through the organization there’s 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.
STX Europe
STX Finland is the world’s leading builder of large cruise ships and icebreaking ships. The company has a good reputation as one of the best offshore and specialized vessel builders in the world. The company has also succeeded in building the largest and finest car-passenger ferries in the world.
STX Finland has three shipyards in the cities of Helsinki, Turku and Rauma. The Helsinki yard is specialized in ice breaking and ice-going offshore and arctic vessels, as well as car-passenger ferries. The Turku yard is the builder of large cruise ships, and the Rauma yard is known for ferries, icebreakers and naval ships.
STX Finland’s ship building expertise is backed up by its cabin manufacturing unit and Life Cycle Services, both representing the top class in their industry.
STX Finland is part of STX Europe, which is an international shipbuilding group. STX Europe’s principal shareholder is the international industrial group STX.
TILLBERG DESIGN AB
TILLBERG DESIGN - the worlds leading company in Marine Architecture and Interior Design
Over the company’s 45 year history, Tillberg Design have planned and designed interiors for more than 140 different vessels.
Assignments have spanned from 62 ft luxury yachts, via numerous ferries and catamarans for clients like DFDS, Scandlines, Stena Line, Color Line and Viking Line. Furtermore, some of the worlds largest and most prestigious cruise ships, such as the Queen Mary 2 and Norwegian Epic have had Tillberg Dsign as lead architects
Services are not limited to Interior Design but also include Master Planning, Project Management, Cost Negotiations and complete On-Site Follow-Up. Since a few years back, we can also offer complete Art and Signage consultancy.
We have unmatched knowledge regarding all aspects of marine design, and we see no assignment as as being too modest or too extensive.
TTS Port Equipment AB & TTS Ships Equipment AB
TTS Port Equipment and TTS Ships Equipment are two companies within the international technology based TTS Group.
TTS Port Equipment AB in Gothenburg, Sweden, is the centre of excellence in design and supply of RoRo equipment for ports. Our product range includes linkspans, passenger gangways, auto-mooring equipment. In addition we design and supply equipment for horizontal handling of cargo with the cassette system in combination with AGV, Translifter and CP-train in container ports and terminals.
TTS Ships Equipment AB, located in Gothenburg, is a world-leading designer and supplier of cargo and passenger access equipment to the world’s fleet of PCTCs, ro-ro, ro-pax and cruise vessels. Our product range includes ramps for stern, side, bow and internal access applications, internal and external doors and platforms, and moveable car decks and cargo lifts, all backed up by a comprehensive service and after sales network.
An early involvement of TTS in the ro-ro project guarantees an efficient cargo flow solution and optimized port- and ship arrangement.
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