Our roots aren’t in tech that happened to discover shipping. They’re in a maritime organisation — so we learned this industry from the inside, doing the work ourselves.
We didn’t study the maritime sector from a distance and build software for it. We were part of it. That’s why, more than fifty years on, we still build the way we always have: close to the work, close to the people doing it, and never assuming we know better than the customer who’s out there every day.
The technology has changed beyond recognition. What hasn’t is who our software is for — and how well we know them.
Our oldest product, BTS Coasting, begins life as a Telex network connecting the chartering market.
We build our first internet application for a customer — a customer who is still with us on SHIPM8 today.
Modern, AI-driven SaaS platforms, delivered over email and the web — same industry, same people who know it.
Part of the Cofano Group, joining a wider community of maritime software people who work the same personal way we do.
Software that survives fifty years of change says something about the company behind it. So does a customer relationship that has lasted since 1996. We take both as the same promise: we’re here for the long term, and we’d rather earn your trust once and keep it than win you and move on.
It’s why we still pick up the phone, still know our customers by name, and still treat every product as something we’re building together with the people who use it.