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ClassNK buys the Canadian computer service company Helm Operations
The company of Victoria has developed computer science systems currently in use on about thousand ships
July 16, 2014
The society of Japanese classification ClassNK has bought the Canadian computer service company Helm Operations that is specialized in the realization of computer science systems for the field of the shipping. Founded in 1999, the company of Victoria (British Columbia), has developed software currently in use on about thousand ships.
"Until from our foundation - it has emphasized the managing director and founder of Helm, Ron deBruyne - Helm has always supplied an excellent software to the marine field. We are successful to take advantage of the absolutely talented community of information the technology of Victoria, that it has attracted the attention also of the world leaders, between which Amazon and Ebay, and to arrange the know-how-how and the experience of the field of the boats from job in order to create systems intuitive users-friendly that directly contributes to improve safety, the efficiency and the profit of the companies that employ boats from job. In ClassNK - she has added deBruyne - we have found a partner that she shares our vision that consists in supplying to the fields marine and offshore the best possible software, and absolutely we are honored and enthusiastic for potential the new developments that will be determined by this new partnership. Working together, we are convinced of being able to constitute a platform software of world-wide level for the total marine industry".
"To the ClassNK - of the Japanese group has commented executive vice-president, Yasushi Nakamura - our mission always has been that to do so as that the total innovation is placed for the benefit of the entire marine field. To begin at the beginning with the acquisition of NAPA of this year ( on March 19, 2014, ndr), and now with the acquisition of Helm, we are placing side by side to a team of software companies leader from all the world to the aim to contribute to the attainment of this objective".
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The society of Japanese classification ClassNK has bought the Canadian computer service company Helm Operations that is specialized in the realization of computer science systems for the field of the shipping. Founded in 1999, the company of Victoria (British Columbia), has developed software currently in use on about thousand ships.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
