26 February 2009
ShipServ Facts At A Glance
Overview
ShipServ is the leading maritime e-marketplace, helping the buyers and sellers of ship supplies to reduce the costs associated with doing business together. In 2009 ShipServ helped its members save an estimated $400m and transformed the way they do business. Whether a Buyer needs to streamline its purchasing operations or a Supplier wants to reduce the cost of attracting or retaining customers, ShipServ is unique in helping businesses of all sizes to find each other easily, connect cost effectively and trade efficiently. Today the ShipServ community numbers over 140 buying organisations, 5,000 vessels and 30,000 suppliers.
Leadership
CEO: Paul Ostergaard
COO: Kim Skaarup
Chief Marketing Officer: John Watton
SVP Sales: Freddy Ingemann
VP Product Management: Stuart May
Chief Financial Officer: Kay Sangha
SVP Client Relations: Mikael Weis
MD, APAC: Linda Ho McAfee
MD, Americas: Don Staffin
Founded
1999
Employees
160 as at February 1, 2010
Locations
Headquarters. London, UK
Regional Offices. Copenhagen, Denmark; Hong Kong; Manila, Philippines; New Hope PA, USA; New Jersey, NJ, USA
Business Solutions
- ShipServ TradeNet – eCommerce trading platform
- ShipServ Pages – online maritime supplier directory
- Mariner’s Annual - ship-based ordering guide
Customer Community
- More than 140 Ship Owners/managers managing nearly 5,000 vessels.
- 30,000 registered suppliers.
- More than 40,000 users in 90 countries.
The company facilitated 4m transactions, at a Gross Merchandise Value (GMV) of just under $1.2bn in 2009.
2009 Performance
- TradeNet transactions up 27% Year-On-Year (YOY)
- Number of contracted ships up 11% YOY
- GMV up 22% YOY
Markets Served
- Ship Owners/managers
- Maritime Suppliers
- Shipyards
- Cruise Lines
- Offshore
- Logistics providers
Alliances
Our alliances play an important role in helping our customers overcome the complex challenges associated with ship supplies management. We have three main categories of alliance - Software Partners, Industry Associations and Content Partners.
Maritime Software Providers. ShipServ has partnerships with the leading maritime software providers, with “out-of-the-box” integration to ABS NS, AMOS, BASSNet, Consultas, Danaos, Logihold, PreMaster PRO, ShipNet SNAPS, SISCommerce, Teledata ShipManager, TM Master and Ulysses Task Assistant.
Industry Associations. ShipServ is proud to be partnered with the International Marine Purchasing Association (IMPA), the International Ship Manager’s Association (InterManager) and the International Ship Suppliers Association (ISSA).
Content Partners. We work closely with a number of content partners to provide specialized ship supplies content to the global purchasing community including IMPA (Marine Stores Guide) and ISSA (Ship Stores Catalogue).
Website
www.shipserv.com