ShipServ

Name

ShipServ

Legal name

ShipServ Limited

Website

https://shipserv.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Tallinn

HQ country

Estonia

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Personnel, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Marketplace Transaction Fees: ShipServ operates as a B2B maritime procurement marketplace connecting buyers and suppliers. The platform facilitates trade between maritime buyers seeking supplies and global suppliers, generating revenue through transaction facilitation.
2. Directory Listing Fees: Suppliers pay for premium listings and visibility within the supplier directory browsable by country, category, and brand.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

ShipServ operates a B2B maritime procurement marketplace that connects ship owners, vessel operators, and other maritime buyers with a global network of verified marine suppliers. The platform provides IMPA Catalogue search across 50,000 standardized product codes, a supplier directory browsable by country, category, and brand, and an RFQ workflow enabling buyers to source and suppliers to quote marine supplies and equipment.

Product overview

ShipServ operates as a maritime procurement marketplace platform offering both supplier-facing and buyer-facing solutions. The core platform enables buyers to source from a global network of trusted marine suppliers through RFQ workflows, while suppliers can connect with buyers worldwide. The platform integrates IMPA Catalogue search with 50,000+ product codes. Key product features include sustainable trade capabilities balancing People/Profits/Planet, secure trade operations for enhanced simplicity and efficiency, and trade facilitation to optimize buyer operations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• ShipServ Maritime Trading Platform A B2B maritime procurement marketplace that connects ship owners, vessel operators, and maritime buyers with a global network of verified marine suppliers, supporting RFQ workflows, supplier discovery, and IMPA Catalogue search functionality.
• IMPA Catalogue Search Search functionality for The Marine Stores Guide (MSG) and its 50,000 standardized product codes, offered in partnership with the International Marine Purchasing Association (IMPA) for consistent maritime procurement.
• Trade for Suppliers Platform Supplier-facing marketplace offering that enables marine suppliers to connect with buyers worldwide, respond to RFQs, showcase products via catalogue, and grow maritime business through platform visibility.
• Trade for Buyers Platform Buyer-facing marketplace offering that enables maritime buyers to source from a global network of trusted suppliers and streamline the maritime procurement process using IMPA codes and RFQ tooling.

Named customers7 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• IMPA (International Marine Purchasing Association)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerShipServ partners with IMPA to provide access to The Marine Stores Guide containing 50,000 standardized product codes. This partnership enables buyers to search for products using industry-standard IMPA codes, facilitating consistent procurement across the maritime industry.
• Marcura GroupcoreTechnology or IntegrationShipServ is part of the Marcura Group, which provides maritime services including DA-Desk (port call management), PortLog (port logistics), PortsDirect (port services), Claims (claims processing), Compliance (regulatory compliance), MarTrust (crew payment), and VesselMan (vessel management). These services are integrated within the ShipServ ecosystem.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Mercell: Mercell (which absorbed FindTrans, the long-standing maritime e-procurement platform) operates a direct B2B procurement marketplace for ship operators and marine suppliers. It is the closest direct competitor to ShipServ, with overlapping IMPA-based catalogue workflows and shared buyer-supplier matchmaking use cases.

Broad incumbents

• Coupa Software: Coupa is a leading horizontal B2B procurement and spend-management platform used by global enterprises. While not maritime-specific, it competes for the procurement-tech budgets of large ship operators that may standardize on general-purpose suites.
• Alibaba.com: Alibaba.com is the largest horizontal B2B marketplace globally. While not maritime-specialized, it is relevant as the broad e-commerce marketplace that can absorb chandlery and marine-supply trade flow if maritime-specific platforms lose differentiation.
• SAP Ariba: SAP Ariba is a dominant B2B procurement and supplier-network platform used across enterprise procurement organizations. It represents the horizontal procurement-suite competitor that ShipServ's IMPA-specialized marketplace must differentiate against.
• Voyager Worldwide (Aderant): Voyager Worldwide, now part of Aderant, offers maritime operational software spanning procurement, e-commerce, and ship-management workflows. It overlaps with ShipServ in maritime B2B procurement and catalogue-based RFQ functionality.
• Ocean Technologies (Wärtsilä Voyage): Ocean Technologies, part of Wärtsilä Voyage, provides a broad maritime software suite including procurement, operational, and crew-management modules. It is comparable to ShipServ in addressing maritime procurement within a wider maritime technology portfolio.

Emerging players

• Veson Nautical: Veson Nautical provides maritime freight management, commercial operations, and increasingly procurement-related software to ship operators and charterers. It overlaps with ShipServ in serving maritime operating workflows and is a credible emerging software competitor.
• BASS Software: BASS Software delivers maritime operational software including procurement, maintenance, and stock-management modules used by ship owners and managers. It is a vertical peer to ShipServ within the ship-management IT stack.
• Mirakl: Mirakl provides marketplace-as-a-service technology for B2B operators building third-party seller ecosystems. While vertical-agnostic, it represents the enabling technology layer that could power a future maritime marketplace entrant.

Others

• IMPA (International Marine Purchasing Association): IMPA is the standards body that maintains the Marine Stores Guide of 50,000+ product codes underpinning ShipServ's catalogue. As ShipServ's content-partner, IMPA is the upstream data and standards owner that any marine procurement platform depends on, and represents a strategic enabler rather than direct competitor.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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