• "Pages has revolutionised the way we do business and put our brand into new markets that would not have been possible using any other channel."

    Greg Pech, CEO
    Satellite Phone Store

  • "ShipServ is a vital tool for us as a leading European ship chandler and we need to be highly visible in the ports we serve as it is used by all the leading shipping companies."

    George Saris, President
    Atlas Ship Chandlers

  • "We started to use TradeNet just to save time and stop manual typing of orders, but now we get other substantial benefits including vital benchmark data on suppliers’ response times that help us in all our negotiations."

    Knut Ove Thuland Hansen, Purchasing Manager
    Utkilen

  • "Time is the biggest saving through ShipServ. We have detailed data that tells us that the amount of time we spend per vessel each week has dropped from 9.2 hours to 7.9 hours."

    Richard O'Malley, Purchasing Supervisor
    Crowley Maritime

  • "Encouraging our suppliers to adopt the e-commerce platform has been well worth the effort. We have reaped significant cost savings from streamlining our purchasing processes."

    Charles Ong, Purchasing Manager
    Keppel Shipyard

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8 October 2010

Happy Birthday, Digital Ship!

A very happy birthday to our friends at Digital Ship magazine, who this month celebrated 10 years in business. Digital Ship was founded hot on the heels of ShipServ (we celebrated our 10th birthday earlier in the year) at a time of incredible expansion in the technology market (aka the dotcom boom years). Many companies from that time sadly didn’t make it beyond a few years, but its good to get recognised by the DS team in their reflective article:

“Many others came and went, though the October 2000 edition did contain a glimpse of what would become one of the success stories of maritime e-procurement. An interview with the fresh-faced CEO of e-commerce start-up ShipServ included details of his mission to convince people of the value of online purchasing – with a slightly more mature Paul Ostergaard still at the helm, the company has managed to weather the early storms and reported transaction volumes of $1.2 billion on its platform for 2009.”

Thanks for the namecheck guys and enjoy the birthday celebrations!

This entry was posted on Friday, October 8th, 2010 at 12:26 pm.

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