Business Meetings on Water? We Have the Perfect Corporate Boat!
Can the location of a corporate meeting make a difference to its outcome? At Smart Own, we believe that being in direct physical contact with your products is essential to understanding the dynamics of your business and making sound, well-informed business decisions.In that spirit, we built the Sea Lounge 40 our luxury corporate boat.
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5 Ways to Turn Senegal’s Capital Dakar into the Venice of West Africa — with Smart Own’s Passenger Boats
This is the first of two posts about opportunities for the water transport industry in the West African paradise of Senegal. This post focuses on Dakar, its islands, and surrounding areas. In a later post, we will address the many possibilities to operate passenger boats on the rivers, deltas, and coastal areas in the rest of the country.
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Four Reasons Why Now is a Great Time to Enter the Passenger Boat Business
The secret is out: the passenger boat business is growing around the globe. The passenger boat business has been present in our world for as far back as civilization can remember. Long before we had vessels to travel overland with, boats provided the vital lifeline for travel and transport.
In some ways, the more things change, the more they stay the same. However, there is one major difference in the 21st century world of water vessels.
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JAJI 31: The first water taxi specifically designed for Africa
We spent three years roaming around Africa’s waterways learning how to design the perfect passenger boat. JAJI 31 is the fruit of our extensive knowledge of the African water transport industry. Built in Dubai it is the first water taxi in the World that is designed specifically for the African market.
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The complex task of shipping large boats like the Waveshuttle 56
A live example of shipping a Gulf Craft Waveshuttle 56 as bulk cargo on a geared heavy lift vessel from Jebel Ali in Dubai to Chittagong in Bangladesh.
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Kenya navy inspects its first ASIS rigid inflatable boat
Sea trials in Dubai for the Kenya navy delegation showcasing the capabilities of the rigid inflatable boat model RIB 8.0 Law Enforcement
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Business Meetings on Water? We Have the Perfect Corporate Boat!
5 Ways to Turn Senegal’s Capital Dakar into the Venice of West Africa — with Smart Own’s Passenger Boats
JAJI 31: The first water taxi specifically designed for Africa
The complex task of shipping large boats like the Waveshuttle 56
The emergence of the Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV)
Smart Own awarded the supply of a Gulf Craft Waveshuttle 56 for the Padma Multipurpose Bridge Project in Bangladesh
Waveshuttle 56: A high speed luxury water bus is not a ferry