Columbia Shipmanagement together with Marlow Navigation have emphasised their individual commitment to a digital agenda in quality ship management by signing a partnership with Lufthansa Industry Solutions that will pave the way for a new era of advanced thinking in the maritime sector.

This agreement, reported on 19 May, is between Blue Dynamics, an advanced software company previously set up by Columbia and Marlow, and Lufthansa Industry Solutions is aimed at providing the highest standards of information technology relating to performance monitoring, predictive maintenance, remote sensoring, procurement, logistics, crew planning and other important topics such as development resource sharing, lab utilisation and avant-garde development processes.