News

Friday 11 May 2012

A new feature has arrived in the latest release of CarRes, which is now available to all our clients.

You can now schedule a text message to be sent to passengers’ mobile phones at a specific time prior to their scheduled sailing.

The message can be generated in the customer’s language and can contain check-in and port information relevant to the journey. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to tell all your customers who have agreed to get ...

Friday 4 May 2012

Another successful Shippax Ferry Shipping Conference was held last week onboard the Tallink ferry Baltic Queen during her sailing from Stockholm to Tallinn and return. We were very happy to act as main sponsors again and enjoyed an inspiring program and a lot of networking opportunities with ferry friends from all over the world. The doom and gloom messages on the state of the industry on day one was ...

January 2012

Cape Cods leading whale watch operator selects Carus as technology partner

With a new season fast approaching Steve Milliken knew he had to find a solution to his growing need to manage his booking process both in-house and via the web. Having seen fellow Cape Cod operator Hyline successfully implement the CarRes system he had no hesitation in contacting Carus and, just weeks later, signing up for a Managed Service deployment from their US based Data Centre.

“I visited ...

November 2011

Carus continues to expand by attracting people with the best combination of ferry, booking and eCommerce experience.

Niklas Kärkinen has a genuine combination of ferry and IT experience having previously worked for Hogia Ferry Systems as both a Project/Account Manager and as one of their Sales Managers. He joins Carus from Igence, where he has been managing the implementation of IBMs eCommerce tool, WebSphere Commerce, for Eckerö Line, ...

April 2011

Yet another island ferry operator has chosen Carus as supplier for their booking and ticketing systems. After a thorough evaluation, Ven-Trafiken concluded that Carus offered the best solution in terms of skills, experience, cost and quality.

Ven-Trafiken is going through a major business upgrade which includes a new ferry, a new terminal in Landskrona and the renewal and modernization of their systems. Carus will deliver its CarRes reservation system for booking and ticketing which will include systems to enable ticket ...

March 2011

Fjord Line will be one of the first Norwegian ferry operator to connect to the Norwegian Ministry of Trades travel portal, Visit Norway, using the CarRes interface.

Thanks to the existing interface that the reservation system from Carus already has to the Citybreak destination booking platform, Fjord Line will be able to market and sell their ferry services through the Visit Norway web site. “This is one of the big advantages by using a truly standardized booking system that already ...

December 2010

Icelandic shipping company Eimskip signs SaaS contract for the CarRes booking, ticketing, departure-control and administration solution.

This ‘Software as a Service’ agreement follows the recent license sale of CarRes to Azam Marine in Tanzania and the Eckerö Group in Finland, which leads to Carus implementing their sought after ferry solution for three customers in distant markets under two different deployment models, two as SaaS implementation from the Carus Data Centre in Mariehamn and the other as a licence model on ...

October 2010

Carus PBS have at the 35th InterFerry Conference in New York released the latest version of their leading booking, ticketing and departure control solution bringing a host of new features & functions to the industry.

CarRes is already well established as a best of breed solution for ferry operators and version 3.0, which will be rolled out to all existing clients as part of their Maintenance Agreement, includes over 15 new features, 20 major enhancements to existing functions and 25 ...

Aug 2010

John Bertell joins from Hogia Ferry Systems

At a time when ferry operators are reviewing their costs and preparing for an up-turn in the market, Carus are expanding their activities in the European market with the recruitment of a Sales Manager for the regions of Northern Europe and the Mediterranean.

John W. Bertell, who has 15 years of experience within the ferry and shipping industry, will be responsible for the development of the Mediterranean market for Carus as well as maintaining ...

July 2010

After only three months traffic it’s clear that the new St. Peter Line link between Helsinki, Finland, and St. Petersburg, Russia, is a huge success that has exceeded all expectations.

Andrey Mushkarev, Director of Sales and Marketing, states “We took the decision to initiate the traffic at the beginning of February with the first sailing scheduled for 21 April. In less than 2 months we set up a fully-fledged Cruiseferry-operation from scratch in terms of both our organization and all ...