Digital shipmanagement-solutions supplier Hanseaticsoft was started by a software expert who saw an opportunity in the lack of digitalisation in the business.

Alexander Buchmann began his career in shipping developing digital programmes and information technology (IT) for Hansa Treuhand and NSC Schifffahrtsgesellschaft, and was surprised at the lack of digitalisation in the routine office work of ship operations.

“We were looking for organisational and operational software at the time but there just wasn’t any so we started writing our own and that grew very fast,” he said.

But