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.

Software Partners

We work closely with a number of leading software providers - most specialize in the maritime industry whilst some provide industry-neutral solutions. However, all share our desire to offer the best service and support to our joint customers. Our partners have made a range of commitments to the ShipServ community, from integrating their products with TradeNet “out-of-the-box”, to working closely with us on future development plans. They also bring a wide range of industry expertise - from maintenance, spare parts, stock control, quality and safety documentation to voyage management, financial control and personnel management.

Maritime Software Providers

Product Software Type Out-of-the-box Integration Joint Sales Collaboration* Joint Product Roadmap**
ABS NS Fleet Management Yes Yes Yes
BASSnet Fleet Management Yes No No
Consultas Fleet Management Yes No No
Danaos Fleet Management Yes No No
Logihold Fleet Management & Maintenance Yes No No
PreMaster PRO Ship Administration Yes No No
SNAPS Fleet Management Yes No Yes
SISCommerce E-procurement Yes No No
AMOS Fleet Management Yes Yes Yes
ShipManager Fleet Management No No No
TM Master Ship Administration TBA No No
Task Assistant Fleet Management TBA No No

General Software Providers

Product Software Type Out-of-the-box Integration Joint Sales Collaboration* Joint Product Roadmap**
Compello Document Management No Yes No
Maximo Asset Management No No No
Netsuite On-demand business apps No No No

Key: *We actively work with the partner to promote our combined solutions to our joint customers. **We share our product development plans with the partner.

Industry Associations

We are proud to be partnered with the following leading industry associations:

Association Overview
IMPA IMPA was founded in 1978 by a group of senior purchasing executives in the shipping industry with the aim of promoting co-operation and understanding between purchaser and supplier and to improve the art, science and practice of marine purchasing in all applied forms. IMPA has a wide membership base of companies and individuals from all over the world including many of the leading ship owning, operating and managing companies, together with major marine manufacturers and ship suppliers.
InterManager The International Ship Manager’s Association (InterManager) was founded in 1991 with the aim improve standards in ship management and achieve a safer, more environmentally conscious, more reliable, and controllable ship management industry.
ISSA ISSA is the International Ship Suppliers Association. Founded in Copenhagen in 1955, it represents nearly 2,000 ship suppliers throughout the world.
MeCA MeCA - the Maritime e-Commerce Association was founded in December 1999 and was responsible for developing the maritime industry’s first XML based communications standard, called MTML (Marine Trading Mark-up Language). ShipServ was one of the founding members of MeCA.

Content Partners

We work closely with a number of content partners to provide specialized ship supplies content to the global purchasing community:

Company Relationship
IMPA Marine Stores Guide The IMPA Marine Stores Guide is a reference guide for maritime purchasers looking to source goods and services. The Guide provides a universal coding system that has been acknowledged for many years as a way to overcome language barriers and to ensure accurate specification of marine stores, particularly in elecronic trading. ShipServ uses the IMPA Guide in several ways. ShipServ ShipCat, the onboard purchasing tool, can be supplied with a full IMPA dataset for easy ordering from onbaord vessels. And searches in ShipServ Pages can be performed using IMPA codes.
ISSA Ship Stores Catalogue The ISSA Ship Stores Catalogue is recognised as the pre-eminent tool when it comes to storing ships. From an anchor to a match, a tea-spoon to a length of steel, the ISSA Catalogue categorises and numbers some 35,000 line items of ship stores. ISSA has developed, in partnership with ShipServ the facility for ISSA members and others to produce a Custom Catalogue on CD Rom. It uses the same inteface as the ISSA Stores Catalogue, and provides a range of features for both the supplier and the customer.