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ShipServ is a marine, oil and gas marketplace located in London, UK.
ShipServ was founded in 1999 by Paul Ostergaard on the idea of using the Internet to enable maritime and drilling companies to improve the buying of supplies and spares. In its early days ShipServ was a co-founder of the Maritime E-Commerce Association (MECA), the not-for-profit organisation that governs the MTML (Marine Trading Mark-up Language) standard.
ShipServ's core product is called TradeNet which connects a buyer's purchasing system with their suppliers. In November 2014, according to its website, the company numbered over 200 shipowners, shipmanagers and drilling companies as customers, connecting them with over 54,000 suppliers, totaling around $3bn in trading per annum.
In 2006 ShipServ launched ShipServ Pages - an on-line global directory of maritime and offshore suppliers. Currently more than 54,000 suppliers are listed on ShipServ Pages. In 2012 ShipServ launched a new reporting tool to enable suppliers to measure all their activity on both ShipServ Pages and ShipServ TradeNet.
The company is privately owned, and venture backed. In 2007 the company gained a further round of funding from Wellington Partners, and increased its workforce from 50 to nearly 120 people. The company has operations in 5 countries, with its largest office in Manila, The Philippines.
In September 2011, the company was chosen in the Telegraph 1000 Britain's Brightest Businesses.