Sponsors 2013
ABB, Marine and Cranes
ABB Marine and Cranes - Energy efficient solutions for ships ABB, business unit Marine & Cranes (www.abb.com/marine) is the world´s leading supplier of electrical power, propulsion and vessel control 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.
Carus PBS Ab Ltd
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.
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.
Brude Safety AS
Brude Safety AS is a family owned leading company in the Fire, Rescue and Safety industry. The company is market leader in Norway and a major player in Europe for development, manufacturing and servicing of marine evacuation systems (MES) and other FRS equipment for passenger and offshore vessels.
In addition to development and selling complete solutions for maritime safety Brude offers the customer an extensive consulting, training, installation and service.
In Norway installation and service are performed and organized by the subsidiary Brude Service AS, and 12 affiliated stations.
Brude have a network of alliance partners to ensure our customers fast and qualified service worldwide.
Manufacturing of the core products are done in Eastern Europe.
The Brude companies have a turnover of 140 MNOK and 45 employees.
Main office is located in Aalesund.
Our vision is to be a global partner for pioneering Safety.
Det Norske Veritas AS
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. For more than a decade the DNV Ferry Committee has given active support to Interferry. 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.
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, tourism and freight, 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.
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 5 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!
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.
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. Our product range includes 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.
An early involvement of TTS in the RoRo project guarantees an efficient cargo flow solution and optimized ship arrangement.
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 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, 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.
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.
FINCANTIERI – Cantieri Navali Italiani S.p.A.
Fincantieri is one of the world’s largest shipbuilding groups, which in over 200 years of maritime history has built more than 7,000 vessels. 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. With 21 shipyards in 3 different continents, nearly 20,000 employees and revenues of Euro 4 billion, the Group headquartered in Trieste is the fifth largest shipbuilder worldwide. In Italy alone it has eight shipyards and two design centres, one in Trieste, the largest in Europe, and the other in Genoa. Since 2002 Fincantieri has built or has orders to build 104 ships, worth a total of Euro 24 billion, and has developed dozens of prototypes in the various business segments in which it is present.
Gotlandsbåten AB
Gotlandsbåten AB is a recently formed travel company with a primary focus of operating a seasonal (from the summer of 2014) ferry route between Visby and the Swedish mainland.
Gotlandsbåten AB was founded on a purely commercial basis with the main focus on lowering the cost of transportation by ferry for the visitors to the island.
In a broader perspective, Gotlandsbåten AB is a possible future partner for an external
shipping company that would like to take part in the upcoming procurement that is currently being prepared by the Swedish Government for the year-round operation between the island and the mainland.
Founder is Stig (“ Pigge”) Werkelin. Co-founder of the first low-cost airline in Sweden. Very knowledgeable in the hospitality sector of Gotland the largest investor in the Swedish camping market over the past 7 years (gross investments exceeds 80 MEUR).
Lloyd’s Register
Lloyd’s Register is a leading global provider of classification and certification services to the ferry sector, helping ensure that internationally recognised safety and environmental standards are maintained at every stage of a ship’s life.
But we are not just about surveying ships; we are dedicated to helping our clients achieve the best possible performance from their fleets and operations.
We understand that ferry owners and operators face numerous choices about the design and operation of their ships, and that today’s goal-based requirements and novel designs are creating a more complex ferry industry.
We help our clients understand and address all the risks associated with their ferry and ropax projects, to help them optimise performance, comply with regulations and achieve their operating goals.
Every service we offer is based on our technical insight and extensive experience, which means we can provide the information they need to make informed and effective decisions.
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
For more than 86 years MEIKO has been using the most sophisticated technology. MEIKO produces sparkling cleanliness not just in mass catering establishments, restaurants, hotels, company canteens, hospitals and care homes but also across the world in the complex installations needed for airline catering, in all the high-speed ICE trains, on cruise ships and the VIP catering arrangements at Formula 1 tracks. Exceptional quality, outstanding technology and impressive customer benefits have made MEIKO dishwashers the most successful in the world.
The MEIKO group is not only a world leader in the development, manufacturing, and distribution of commercial dishwashing machines and systems, but is also renowned for its range of washer/ disinfector appliances and sluice room furniture used by leading hospitals worldwide, and within the healthcare sector in general.
For many years MEIKO has been setting standards. And the company is keeping up with this tradition of being the leading innovator.
P&O Ferries
The UK’s leading ferry operator with 23 years serving nine routes linking Ireland, France, Belgium and the Netherlands. The company offers a mix of tourist, freight + freight-only services and carries nine million passengers and two million freight units per year on 30,000 sailings.
Stena Line
Stena Line is one of the world’s largest ferry operators with the most comprehensive route network I Northern Europe. We have 22 ferry routes and 38 vessels in Scandinavia, around the United Kingdom and to the Baltics.
STX Finland
STX Finland has three shipyards: Turku Shipyard, Rauma Shipyard and Arctech Helsinki Shipyard, of which STX Finland owns 50 percent. The Turku Shipyard is the experienced builder of cruise ships and other technically demanding specialized ships and offshore units. The Rauma Shipyard is known for ferries, research vessels, naval ships and multipurpose vessels. The shipyard in Helsinki is specialized in ice-breaking and ice-going offshore and arctic vessels.
STX Finland’s subsidiaries are Aker Arctic Technology, STX Finland Cabins, Shipbuilding Completion and ENG´n´D. The number of personnel in STX Finland amounts to some 2500 employees. STX Finland is an experienced builder of technologically demanding projects and it is known for innovative and ecologically friendly solutions. Finland’s biggest export products, the worlds biggest and most innovative cruise ships - Oasis of the Seas and Allure of the Seas - were developed and designed at and delivered from the Turku Shipyard. Innovations like the first all-outside-cabin cruise ships, prefabricated cabins and bathroom modules, and the indoor promenade originate from STX Finland.
TTS Port Equipment AB
TTS Port Equipment is designing, delivering, installing and commissioning equipment for handling of passengers and cargo. The equipment is cost and time saving solutions for efficient handling between shore and ship in Ports and RoRo Terminals for Ferries, Ropax, RoRo and Cruise vessels. The port superstructures are Linkspans, Passenger Gangways and Automoorings. For the container terminals we offer horizontal handling of container by the unique cassette system.
TTS Port Equipment offer Ports and Operators consultancy services to optimize and create cost and time efficient solutions in an early stage of the developing process for handling of the total flow of the Passengers and Cargo.
TTS Port Equipment is providing extensive services in means of spare parts, maintenance agreement and repair works.
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