Case Studies

Worldyards

Worldyards is a web-based information and analytical system containing all relevant commercial, technical and management information about active merchant shipbuilding yards worldwide.

In Worldyards, we have integrated the databases of the world's merchant fleet and the new building order book along with reporting and research functions to provide a unique and powerful tool. In a single login, the members can obtain accurate information on a shipyard's history, track record, organizational structure, order book as well as practical information, such as layouts of and travel tips for getting to the shipyards in question. The interaction between the fleet, the order book, the shipyard's databases and the reports system will empower the user with vital statistics at his fingertips such as order book/existing fleet ratios, age profiles of the fleet, delivery schedules, rankings of shipbuilders, flag states, etc. - all the crucial information for today's increasingly competitive shipping market. All the data is dynamically updated to ensure the most up to date information.

Worldyards is different from alternative sources. Analysis shows that order book statistics - provided by 6 leading analysts of the shipping industry - can vary as much as 40% (as of April 2005). Hard to believe that crucial investment decisions have until the introduction of Worldyards has been made on such patchy supply side information. Another feature of Worldyards is the ability to obtain reasonably accurate building capacity figures in CGT terms, both for individual yards and on aggregate basis, which can form a basis for gauging the productivity trend of yards and the direction of the new building market.

The Worldyards' team - a group of handpicked correspondents, researchers, shipbrokers, IT specialists and other shipping professionals - will continuously collect, consolidate and verify the latest information from an array of valid sources and update the site. Worldyards is the shipbuilding industry's only on-line and comprehensive source of information used by ship owners, shipbuilders, shipbrokers, class societies, marine equipment makers, shipping research institutes and others.

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LAMP Linux, Apache, MySQL & PHP Open source CMS Joomla, Drupal, Moodle, Xoops, OSCommerce, wiki, phpnuke, dotnetnuke, e107, Mambo Microsoft Visual Suite VB, VC++, ASP.NET, .NET Web Services & Portals JSP, EJB, XML Database Oracle, MySql, SQL Server WAP enabled applications Java J2EE, J2ME J2ME MIDlets Mobile applications for Windows and java enabled devices.