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12 Oct 2001

OceanConnect Announces New Equity Partner

Booz Allen Hamilton concludes that OC is bringing efficiencies to the marine industry. OceanConnect.com, the global marketplace for the purchase and sale of marine fuels, today that management and technology consultancy Booz Allen Hamilton has entered into a letter of intent to become an equity partner in OceanConnect. The announcement follows OceanConnect's news that it has reached the million-ton milestone for bunkers sold. "In our work with oil and gas companies, we have seen how the introduction of new business channels such as OceanConnect can lead to advantaged supply chain management and back office integration. After reviewing their performance record and product development plans…

12 May 2000

E-commerce Briefs

Autoship Systems, per its partnership with Stargate, an ISP/ASP provider, has developed jointly a web site whereby their loading planning software, LPS, can be used remotely. Utilizing thin client technology, Autoship can now enable internationally located clients to work with LPS without actually implementing the software on their personal computers. Remote access through the Internet allows users to run deploy LPS using any available computer with Internet connection. In addition, the thin client technology allows multiple users to run the same instance of LPS concurrently. ExxonMobil Marine Fuels (EMMF) will begin trading marine fuels on the Internet and has signed the first of several agreements with an e-commerce portal.

26 Mar 2001

Telemarine launches V.6 of Bunkerworld.com

The giant bunkerfuel website - Bunkerworld.com has reached version 6, in a major new re-launch. Bunkerworld.com which is operated by Telemarine Ltd in London, contains more than 10,000 pages of bunkerfuel related information. Version 1 of Bunkerworld was launched in Sept 1997. One of the major changes in the new version of the site is a new information mapping structure which allows flexibility when handling large amounts of related data.

29 Aug 2001

Telemarine launches version 7 of Bunkerworld.com

London based Telemarine launched version 7 of its renowned flagship website, Bunkerworld.com on August 24. Ben Peters, Technology Chief at Telemarine says: "V.7 demonstrates to our users for the first time the full depth of Bunkerworld. 1997. has been designed by the market. stay ahead in this game. websites. The last year has been a tough one for business to business websites. Ben Peters concludes however: "I think people appreciate the staying power of Bunkerworld. been serving this market for 4 years now. in their wake.

29 Aug 2001

Tankerworld Expands

expanded its coverage of the large tanker markets. The expansion comes after a surge of interest in the website from key tanker market players. unique analysis of the market. insurers. closely with key tanker brokers and the expert analysis team at Seatrends. The expansion of the site includes a full directory of tanker brokers and agents, as well as extensive search facilities on anything related to ocean going tankers. This is in addition to the existing directories of owners, charterers, vessels and yards. According to Boe, the main attraction of Tankerworld is the interactive tanker fixture section that enables users to discover in some depth the current and past trading history of each tanker. "There are literally thousands of log-ons every day in this sector", says Boe.