Sponsors 2012
Tallink Grupp, AS
AS Tallink Grupp is the leading passenger shipping company on the Baltic Sea with over nine million passengers annually, operating under brands of Tallink and Silja Line on six different shipping routes. Tallink has 7,000 employees in Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Latvia, Russia and Germany. It is the largest shipping company by tax free retail sales in the world.
ABB, Marine
ABB Marine - Energy efficient solutions for ships
ABB, business unit Marine (www.abb.com/marine) is the world´s leading supplier of electrical power and propulsion systems for ships. We are a global maritime organization, providing innovative, reliable, safe and environmentally-friendly solutions and qualified services to reduce operational costs and ensure optimum vessel lifecycle services including support for our customers throughout the world.
The Azipod® and CRP Azipod® propulsion concepts have proven their efficiency and reliability on a number of passenger ferries. ABB offers a complete range of propulsion systems for all types of vessels including such as cruise vessels, luxury yachts and ro-pax ferries.
One of the latest additions to ABB´s marine portfolio is EMMA™ Advisory Suite, a decision support tool for onboard energy management including both monitoring and optimization. An adaptive and self learning physical model of the vessel is used to optimize areas such as dynamic trim and power plant.
Brax Shipping
The independent Shipbrokerage Brax Shipping, established in January 1982, focus on:
• Roros • Ferries • High Speed • Cruise vessels
We are well recognized within our niche and has an extensive knowledge of our markets and a vast international network.
Please feel free to contact us when it comes to:
• Sale and Purchase • Chartering • Newbuilding • Valuation
• Consultancy
We would be delighted to assist you and provide you with our full support throughout the business process.
All the brokers are Captains with experience from the sea and a solid background as shipbrokers, a fact our clients benefit from.
Brude Safety AS
Your pioneering global partner in Maritime Safety
Brude Safety AS, is a leading manufacturer and supplier of Fire, Safety and Rescue equipment. The company is market leader in Norway and also a key player globally on Gangways, Marine Evacuation Systems, Rescue Boats/davits, life rafts and equipment to all type of ships and marine installations.
Through Brude Service AS, we carry out service and training on this equipment along the Norwegian coast and worldwide.
Bureau Veritas
Classification society Bureau Veritas was established in 1828 “to seek out the truth and tell it without fear or favor”. Today Bureau Veritas is a global leader in conformity assessment and certification services. We are a trusted partner of our clients, offering services and developing innovative solutions to reduce risk, improve performance and promote sustainable development.
CRITEO sa FILIAL NORDEN
Criteo’s advanced technology enables online e-commerce sites to re-engage with potential customers who have left their website via dynamic banners containing the most relevant product specific recommendations that are generated in real-time for each individual. Criteo’s personalized banners significantly outperform standard display advertising and other types of retargeted banners in click-through rates and have also proven to drive increased on-site conversions and average order values.
Criteo’s solution is 100% turnkey, easy to integrate and delivers phenomenal ROI since clients pay only for valuable prospects that click-through and return their website on a cost per click basis.
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 8500 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.
Hogia Transport Systems
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.
Maritime Communications Partner
MCP- The Leading Onboard Communications Partner is the global maritime mobile operator focused on providing cost effective GSM and CDMA communication solutions specially created to fulfil the requirements of the maritime industry. MCP enables mobile phone coverage by installing and operating the onboard radio networks, linking the vessels with public networks via satellite. MCP operates its mobile services via roaming agreements with mobile operators throughout the world.
Through a close cooperation with MCP, the ship-owners benefit by providing a service in demand to their passengers, and thus enhancing their own competitiveness. MCP works in close cooperation with customers, providing unique business models based on revenue sharing and co-investments in the vessel’s operational infrastructure.
MCP is fully owned by Telenor ASA, one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world, with more than 140 million subscribers worldwide.
MEIKO Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG
Welcome to the Marine Division of Meiko!
Meiko’s unparalleled lineup of professional diswashing appliances, tray conveyors, sorting systems and food-waste systems brings you manufacturing excellence, economy of operation, unique design features and user-friendly concepts. While the guests are enjoying the journey and the cuisine, Meiko takes care of the dishes! With over eighty-four years of experience, you can rely on Meiko for all of your warewashing needs. Therefore they are offering an excellent service commitment: Min. two years warranty, world wide service, around the clock availability, highest quality level, start up support and after sales services.
Meiko’s not only found on board cruise ships, this label is also present in staff feeding facilites, hotels and restaurants and care homes, in-flight-catering operations, Intercity Express Trains of the German Railways and even within the VIP catering of Formula 1 motor racing: Wherever you are – all around the globe - MEIKO guarantees sparkling results.
For further informations: www.meiko.de; marine@meiko.de
Red Bull GmbH
In 1984, Dietrich Mateschitz founded Red Bull. He fine-tuned the product, developed a unique marketing concept and started selling Red Bull Energy Drink on the Austrian market 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. Meanwhile Red Bull is present in over 165 countries.
Since 1987, around 30 billion cans of Red Bull have been consumed, more than 4.2 billion in 2010. Representing an increase of 7.6% against 2009. Owing to currency and price factors, however, company turnover increased by 15.8% from EUR 3.268 billion to EUR 3.785 billion. The responsibility for the success of the world’s No. 1 energy drink is shared by the company’s 7,758 employees around the world (compared to 6.900 in 2009). The Red Bull headquarters are based in Fuschl am See, not far from Salzburg, Austria.
Simsonship AB
Simsonship are independent shipbrokers specialized in new building contracting, sale, purchase and chartering of ferries, ro/ro’s and cruise ships. Since five decades Simsonship has developed a well-established network of shipyards, shipping companies, broker friends and financing institutions.
“Simsonship are local worldwide.”
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 Finland
STX Finland Oy has three shipyards in Finland, Turku shipyard, Rauma shipyard and Arctech Helsinki Shipyard Oy, of which STX Finland Oy owns 50%. STX Finland’s subsidiaries include Aker Arctic Technology Oy and STX Cabins Oy, among others. The company belongs to the STX Europe Group, an international shipbuilding group with a product range including cruise vessels, ferries, offshore services vessels, arctic and other specialized vessels. STX Europe has approximately 14,000 employees. www.stxeurope.com
STX Europe’s principal shareholder, the Korean-based international industrial group STX Business Group, has approximately 58,000 employees and aims to be a global top player in its core areas; shipping and trade, shipbuilding and machineries, plant and construction, and energy.
The number of personnel in STX Finland Oy amounts to some 2500 employees. The company’s “assembly yard” concept means employing directly these “own” people and lots of others in co-operation companies, thus boosting the whole surrounding economic region.
With a land area of 144 hectares Turku Shipyard is one of the biggest and most modern shipyards in Europe. STX Turku is an experienced builder of cruise ships and ferries and other special vessels. The newbuilding dock in Turku is 365 m x 80 m. Rauma Shipyard is the world`s leading ferry builder, and is also specialized in small cruise ships, multipurpose icebreakers and research vessels and naval craft. STX Rauma has a newbuilding dock measuring 260 m x 85 m.
Arctech Helsinki Shipyard is employing approximately 400 persons and will focus on arctic maritime technology and shipbuilding and will unify Russian and Finnish Maritime clusters. The modern shipyard has a covered dry dock of 280,5 x 34 m. www.arctech.fi
STX Europe has built all 14 of the largest cruise ships in the world. STX Europe is known for innovative design prototypes. Besides the world’s largest delivered, innovations like the first all-outside-cabin cruise ships, prefabricated cabins and bathroom modules, and indoor promenade originate from STX Europe. Finland’s biggest export products, the worlds biggest and most innovative cruise ships Oasis of the Seas and Allure of the Seas were delivered from Turku Shipyard in the end of years 2009 and 2010.
Versonix Corporation
Versonix is the company behind SEAWARE, the business rules based reservation system with Sales, Marketing, CRM and Revenue/Yield management for passengers, cars and and cargo inventories. Patented and new generation technologies drive the Seaware system for ferries, cruise lines, and resorts of all sizes. From reservation to check-in, to management reports to car deck optimization; Seaware allows you to manage your business your way. Seaware rule-based reservation solution delivers industry-leading Yield Management, Cargo Handling and Customer Relationship/ Loyalty Program. The Seaware solution provides a complete, reliable and flexible platform that allows companies to boost operating efficiencies and customer satisfaction. Seaware serves as a common point for all distribution channels including the Internet, handheld, self-service kiosk, GDS and call center.
CLIENTS: Worldwide, Versonix serves clients of all sizes, ranging from small 30+ employee companies to international firms employing thousands. Client’s volumes range from 10,000 passengers per year for a small cruise lines to large ferries transporting over 9 million passengers, over 1,000,000 passenger cars and over 250,000 cargo units.
Carus
Carus are focused on the passenger vessel industry, providing advanced reservations, departure control and port automation 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, 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 CarRes.
Carus are proud of their stable solutions, services and finances and look forward to demonstrating how these can benefit your organisation.
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