• "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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17 December 2012

Mariner’s Annual goes mobile

Mariner's Annual: iPad and iPhone version

For 55 years,  Mariner’s Annual has been the gold standard for accurate ordering information for ship supplies – literally as well as figuratively.

The easily recognizable yellow book with the coloured stripes can be reliably found on the bookshelves and desks of ship captains, purchasing managers, naval architects, and ship suppliers.  The ordering guide has also been available on CD and online.  The only limitation is that the reader needed either a computer or a hard copy book to access the information.

Several months ago while visiting a trade show, I had too much to carry as I made my way from booth to booth, and the idea of a 1344 page book or my laptop was not appealing.  So I downloaded Mariner’s Annual onto my iPad.  The first few times I pulled out the iPad to show some of the product information, the person to whom I was speaking was suddenly more interested in the fact that Mariner’s Annual was on an iPad than the specific product we had been discussing.

The same thing happened at the next industry event I attended.  Clearly the marketplace was telling us something.  We listened! Now for the first time, the 2012 Edition of ShipServ Onboard/Mariner’s Annual, which was launched in September can now be downloaded onto an iPhone or an iPad.

After some investigation, we have determined that a third party application called GoodReader (available at the App Store) gives an excellent user experience for a publication of this size.  The application costs approximately $5 USD for either the iPhone or iPad version.  Zoom in on images or product specifications.  If you have access to Wi-Fi, tap email addresses to directly contact suppliers, or web page addresses to go to the supplier’s home page.

Download the 2012 ShipServ Onboard/Mariner’s Annual today at http://www.shipserv.com/help/ma.

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This entry was posted on Monday, December 17th, 2012 at 5:19 pm.