About Us

Digital Ship is the commercial maritime world’s authority on satellite communications, software, navigation technology and computer based training.

Established in August 2000, Digital Ship publishes a monthly full colour print and electronic magazine, organises six large conference / exhibitions every year in Hong Kong / Singapore, Hamburg, Oslo (Lillestrom), the USA (Stamford), Cyprus and Athens, and runs a series of one day sector-specific events. We also provide an online newsletter and networking service to help executives in the maritime industry stay ahead of the very latest developments in shipping IT.

Digital Ship is based in London – our office address is:

Digital Ship Ltd
2nd Floor, 8 Baltic Street East
London, EC1Y 0UP
UK

For General enquiries please contact us on:

Tel: +44 207 253 2700, Fax: +44 251 9179

Please note: our phone number and address changed on July 22 2010.

FOR SPECIFIC ENQUIRIES, PLEASE CONTACT THE RELEVANT DEPARTMENT BELOW

For Editorial enquiries please contact:

Rob O'Dwyer, Editor
Tel: +44 207 017 3410, E-mail: odwyer@thedigitalship.com

Andy Norris, consultant writer

For Advertising and Exhibition Sales enquiries please contact:

Ria Kontogeorgou, Sales Manager
Tel: +44 207 017 3401, E-mail: ria@thedigitalship.com

For Digital Ship Events enquiries please contact:

Diana Leahy, Events Manager
Tel: +44 207 253 2700, E-mail: leahy@thedigitalship.com

For Conference Programme enquiries please contact:

Karl Jeffery, Conference Producer
Tel: +44 207 017 3405, E-mail: jeffery@thedigitalship.com

For Subscriptions enquiries please contact:

Stephan Venter, Subscriptions Manager
Tel: +44 207 0173407, E-mail: venter@thedigitalship.com

For Conference Registration enquiries please contact:

Dima Sabe, Delegate Sales Manager
Tel: + 44 207 017 3412, E-mail: dima@thedigitalship.com

For Magazine Production enquiries please contact:

Vivian Chee, Production Manager
E-mail: chee@btconnect.com

Digital Ship also has several sister companies with shared personnel or shared shareholders

LNG Journal – a magazine covering developments in the LNG sector. www.lngjournal.com

Tanker Operator - news, features and reports on tanker operations. www.tankeroperator.com

Digital Energy Journal - a magazine about information and communications technology in the oil and gas industries. www.digitalenergyjournal.com

Finding Petroleum - Exploration and technology to find petroleum. Forums and conferences in London www.findingpetroleum.com

Carbon Capture Journal - Developments in carbon capture and storage. www.carboncapturejournal.com

Port Finance International - a news and events company for the port finance and development sector. www.portfinanceinternational.com

StocExpo - a series of exhibitions and a print magazine about storage terminals www.stocexpo.com

Drewry Shipping Consultants - www.drewry.co.uk

The Hydrogen Journal - www.h2journal.com

KEY PERSONNEL

Rob O’Dwyer, Editor of Digital Ship, has been a maritime IT journalist for about four years. He has a masters degree in business and law from University College Dublin and was previously a commercial writing consultant in Seoul, South Korea. Rob is also currently Editor of Port Finance International. odwyer@thedigitalship.com

Karl Jeffery, Conference Producer for Digital Ship, is the founding editor of the magazine and has been with the company since 2000. He was previously Editor of Compuship magazine and has been a specialist in maritime information technology for almost a decade. He is also currently Editor of Digital Energy Journal and publisher of Tanker Operator. jeffery@thedigitalship.com

Stuart Fryer, Publisher / Managing Director, is also publisher of LNG Journal, and Container Management. Stuart was also previously publisher of Cargo Systems, Hazardous Cargo Bulletin and Compuship.

Ria Kontogeorgeou, Advertising & Exhibition Sales Manager, is from Athens, Greece, and was previously advertising manager for Greece and Cyprus with Tanker Operator magazine. ria@thedigitalship.com

Vivian Chee, Production Manager, has been responsible for the design and graphic layout of Digital Ship for over 10 years. chee@btconnect.com

CORRESPONDENT WRITERS

Dr Andy Norris is chairman of the IEC (International Electrotechnical Committee) Technical Committee 80, Maritime navigation and radio communication equipment and systems. He is also Special Professor of Navigation Technology, Nottingham University and was previously managing director of ChartCo.

Sectors covered in Digital Ship include:

SHIP SHORE COMMUNICATIONS: New satellite communications services, Inmarsat Fleet and FleetBroadband, VSAT, Iridium, Globalstar, Thuraya, maritime GSM services, DVB, seafarer communications, data services, Inmarsat I4 services, equipment, airtime services, software, e-mail systems and services, safety communications, ship security alert systems.

SOFTWARE / DATA SERVICES: Shipping company operations software, shipmanagement software, data acquisition tools, electronic purchasing tools, maintenance software, manning / personnel software, accounting software, networks / data infrastructure, office computer hardware.

SHIPBOARD ELECTRONICS / SAFETY / NAVIGATION SYSTEMS: Chart display systems, ECDIS, charts and ENCs, chart distribution systems, integrated bridges, voyage data recorders, simplified voyage data recorders, automatic identification systems, wireless data communication networks, shipboard PCs, safety communication networks.

CONTROL SYSTEMS / POWER: Shipboard power generation, shipboard automation systems, fuel cells, power systems, power monitoring systems, gas detection systems

SECURITY TECHNOLOGY: Security training software, identity cards, closed circuit TV cameras, alarms, locks electric fences, smart containers