Columbia Shipmanagement and Marlow Navigation sign ‘blue sky thinking’ partnership with Lufthansa
Columbia Shipmanagement together with Marlow Navigation have signed a partnership deal with Lufthansa Industry Solutions that they claim in a release will pave the way for a “new era of blue sky thinking” in the maritime sector.
The agreement between Blue Dynamics – a software company previously set up by Columbia and Marlow – and Lufthansa Industry Solutions will provide information technology relating to performance monitoring, predictive maintenance, remote sensoring, procurement, logistics, crew planning and other important topics such as development resource sharing, lab utilisation and development processes.
Lufthansa Industry Solutions has successfully provided several innovative IT solutions to the maritime industry over the years, both in the transport and the cruise sector.
Mark O’Neil, president of Columbia Shipmanagement, and the future CEO of the merged Columbia Marlow, welcomed the partnership and said the goal was to create “a truly transformational digital environment consisting of integrated applications and services which will enable the customer to be fully integrated into the management and vessel operation process”.