Prior to establishing ferry+, we owned a company called travellog systems. All ferry+ personnel were previously involved in the development of a range of integrated reservations systems for ferry operators, and railway companies on a global basis through working with travellog systems.
Our core skill set is centred on our general experience of reservations and ticketing, particularly for ferry operators. Specifically, this experience encompasses the design, building and implementation of large scale ferry reservation systems.
Our experience, combining the design, development and implementation of systems for many major ferry operators worldwide, resulted in many customers including:
- Buquebus, Spain
- Clipper Navigation, USA
- Emeraude Line, France
- Fast Cat, New Zealand
- Ferry Maroc, Morocco
- HSD, Norway
- Interisland Ferries, New Zealand
- Irish Ferries, Ireland
- Merchant Ferries, UK
- P&O Scottish Ferries, UK
- Red Funnel Ferries, UK
- SeaFrance, France
- TT Lines, Australia
- Wightlink Ferries, UK
Other major implementations undertaken were for rail operators and include:
- TranzRail, New Zealand
- Great Southern Railway, Australia
- Rail Europe, France
- Alaskan Rail, USA
We also provided the system to Eurotunnel for their ‘shuttle’ operation which carries passenger and vehicles (cars, vans and coaches) on the train under the English Channel from Folkestone to Calais.
As individuals, we have a proven track record for innovation in the use of technology for ferry operators and major milestones achieved include:
- First Unicorn (EDI) requesting system
- First combined Unicorn (EDI) host and requesting system
- First integrated tour and ferry system
- First ferry Internet reservations system
- Multi time zone handling
- Multi sector reservations
- Multi lingual application software
- Integrated freight system
- Integrated check-in
- Integrated deferred revenue
- Integrated point of sale system
We have also been deeply involved with technical standards within the travel industry in general and in particular with the Unicorn EDI standards. We have also chaired the Travel Technology Initiative (TTI) Unicorn standards committee which controls the messaging standards used in the Unicorn protocol.