Digital Ship

From Maritime IT Specialist to Digital Swiss Army Knife: MarPoint’s Reinvention for the Connected Shipping Era

Introduction One of the beauties of our work as market intelligence analysts is the opportunity to interview fascinating people and companies. Better still is speaking to the same companies over many years and seeing how their businesses evolve as technology, competition, and customer requirements change. In the autumn of 2022, Valour Consultancy interviewed MarPoint, then…

Buy Me Up Before You Gogo

Craig Foster & Summer Staninski (published Oct 2024) In a recent blog, we examined the collapse of SmartSky Networks and speculated on how other aviation players might react to the fast-advancing Starlink. Now, just weeks later, long-time SmartSky adversary, Gogo, has announced its acquisition of Satcom Direct, confirming predictions of further industry consolidation. In this…