Making
Flagship a more attractive partner
Rockville, MD, April
2, 2006
This year Flagship celebrates
its 20th anniversary as the service provider
and software house for the global shipping industry.
Among other things, we can look back on two
decades of innovations designed to keep our
customers satisfied and make Flagship more attractive
to them - from one of the first to make communication
part of our software solution to the first trade
partner transferring data to US Customs a few
minutes into year 2000 for Y2K compliance.
One of our main goals has
always been to minimize the cost of IT-solutions
for our customers, provide skilled personnel
and providing reliable operational availability.
Flagship has a history of developing solutions,
in time, to meet our customers need for exchanging
data with their partners and authorities. After
September 11, 2001 we complied with all the
new demands for communication with the "new"
U.S. Customs and Boarder Protection (CBP)and
made our customers more efficient.
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Lasse V. Syversen, President
Flagship by Bloksberg Inc
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Twenty years ago the company was
founded by people from the Shipping
Industry and the IT Industry, Wilh. Wilhelmsen - a
leading Norwegian
ship-owner and people from General Electric Information
Service, based in
Rockville, MD. Over the years different shareholders
and board of directors
have maintained the strong relationship to the industry
and skills in global
and domestic transportation.
In 2000 the company became a part
of the Bloksberg group and focused even
more on serving the shipping operations and Customs
clearance. During this
time the group gave opportunities to some of their
employees to establish
new business development in electronic data interchange
(EDI) - today known
as Corvedia Inc (Flagship is holding 15% of the shares).
In 2002 the company moved their
computer and development center to Apollo,
PA and directed, once more, the focus on reliable
and secure operations with
extremely dedicated people to serve our customers
24/7/365.
Flagship's extended family includes
the best partners in user organizations
(e.g. for ocean and rail), officials and providers
of the best technology.
Our systems are user-friendly and have been based
on multiple UNIX and
Widows platforms using MSM and Cache from InterSystems
Corporation - a
partner to Flagship for all this years.
In our 20th year of operation we
are launching a complete solution for
Canada - a demand from our existing and new customers.
Two new products will
be operational this spring, Canada*ACI and Canada*Rail.
More new products
will follow during the year for other shipping lines.
We are currently working on expanding
our technology platform and making the
software more user-friendly by using web technology
and more efficient
development tools. We will also implement new communication
protocols to
meet the demand from the CBP.
I would take this opportunity to
thank all our customers, partners and
employees for contributing to our success and we will
promise to continue to
work hard to maintain our position as the most attractive
company for all of
you.
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