Suppliers E-Commerce Award

Martek Marine , the Rotherham UK based supplier of safety monitoring systems to the global marine industry, has won Best Use of Teleworking at the 2004 DTI/InterForum E-Commerce Awards ceremony in London last month. The company makes extensive use of voice over internet (VOIP) and Virtual Private Networking (VPN) to allow their employees in many countries around the world to communicate in a timely and cost effective fashion.

According to the shipyard, only about ¢900,000 of the price of the 28.4m long, 5.6m wide, 66 ton clipper was paid.

MJ Information No: 20035