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, Dubai, Oslo, the USA, 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
213 Marsh Wall
London, E14 9FJ
UK

For General enquiries please contact us on:

Tel: +44 207 510 0015, Fax: +44 207 510 2344

FOR SPECIFIC ENQUIRIES, PLEASE CONTACT THE RELEVANT DEPARTMENT BELOW

For Editorial enquiries please contact:

Rob O'Dwyer, Editor
Tel: +44 207 510 4940, E-mail: odwyer@thedigitalship.com

For Advertising and Exhibition Sales enquiries please contact:

Ria Kontogeorgou, Sales Manager
Tel: +44 207 510 4931, E-mail: ria@thedigitalship.com

For Digital Ship Events enquiries please contact:

Diana Leahy, Events Manager
Tel: +44 207 510 4939, E-mail: leahy@thedigitalship.com

For Conference Programme enquiries please contact:

Karl Jeffery, Conference Producer
Tel: +44 207 510 4935, E-mail: jeffery@thedigitalship.com

For Subscriptions enquiries please contact:

Stephan Venter, Subscriptions Manager
Tel: +44 207 510 4937, E-mail: venter@thedigitalship.com

For Conference Registration enquiries please contact:

Theo Albanis, Delegate Sales Manager
Tel: +44 207 510 4938, E-mail: theo@thedigitalship.com

For Accounts enquiries please contact:

Dominic Balfour, Accounts Manager
Tel: +44 207 510 4948, E-mail: dominic@lngjournal.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

Maritime Content – publisher of Tanker Operator magazine(www.tankeroperator.com) and LNG Journal(www.lngjournal.com)

Container Management - publisher of Container Management magazine www.container-mag.com

Drewry Shipping Consultants - www.drewry.co.uk

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

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

KEY PERSONNEL

Rob O’Dwyer, Editor of Digital Ship, has been a maritime IT journalist for three 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. odwyer@thedigitalship.com

Karl Jeffery, Conference Producer and Consulting Writer 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. jeffery@thedigitalship.com

Stuart Fryer, publisher / managing director, is also publisher of Tanker Operator, LNG Journal, and Container Management – previously publisher of Cargo Systems, Hazardous Cargo Bulletin and Compuship

Ria Kontogeorgeou, advertising 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 seven years. chee@btconnect.com

CORRESPONDENT WRITERS

Barry Parker, New York correspondent, provides insights about maritime technology from the US perspective, specialising in maritime security and ship tracking. He has an MBA degree from the Wharton School, and experience as a consultant with Booz Allen and Hamilton. For further information see http://www.conconnect.com.

Steve Harding, ship shore communications correspondent, was one of the original authors of the UK GMDSS legislation. He contributes his views about regulation in the maritime industry and also reviews how ship-shore communications technology is developing, particularly with convergence of the different technologies.

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.

Keith Forward has been a specialist writer about maritime satcoms for seven years. He has a degree in physics from Imperial College, London and has done post graduate research in image analysis.

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