GAT-Ship and Flagship signed a joint marketing agreement for Port Call System

GAT-Ship AS, Porsgrunn, Norway and Flagship Inc, Maryland, USA signed a joint marketing agreement for GAT-Ship's Port Call System in the U.S. and Canadian region.

Porsgrunn/Rockville, June 25th 2008 Maryanne Kirkemoen Slette, CEO and President of GAT-Ship AS, based in Porsgrunn, Norway and Lasse V. Syversen, CEO and President of Flagship by Bloksberg Inc, based in Maryland, U.S.A. announced today a partnership were Flagship has become the agent for GAT-Ship's Port Call System in the US and Canada. GAT-Ship AS will also develop a link from their system to Flagship's SHIPS*AMS Service allowing their users, worldwide, to submit their manifest data to the US and Canadian Customs directly from the Port Call System.

Flagship / Gat Ship joint team

Maryanne Kirkemoen Slette, CEO and President of GAT-Ships AS remarks that the joint partner agreement with Flagship, a company with more than 20 years of experience in the American market will give GAT-Ship access to existing and new customers and secure quality support. Furthermore, we will add a new service to our existing program and give our customers a secure and efficient documentation system for transfer of Customs data to US and Canada through Flagship's SHIPS*AMS System. Ms Kirkemoen Slette also states that the partnership is a perfect fit of the two companies with long standing shipping expertise and dedicated team members.

Lasse V. Syversen, CEO and President of Flagship remarks that the GAT-Ship Port Call System is a state-of-the-art ship agent system based on the latest technology and will become a major front end system to the traditional Flagship family of products. We have searched for a partner like this for a long time to modernize our service, especially towards the end users at port operation. Mr Syversen continues; "The GAT-Ship team is a perfect combination of shipping expertise and good technical skills - similar to our own team at Flagship.

Gat Ship and Flagship Principals