Navarik
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Navarik Corp. (www.navarik.com) is a privately held company founded in June 2000 and based in Vancouver, Canada. It designs, develops, deploys, runs, and maintains web-based software systems for the maritime shipping industry. Its customers and users include shipping agencies, ship owners, shipbrokers, and cargo inspectors. Some of Navarik's customers rank among the largest shipping firms in the world, and include Shell, Petro-Canada, Teekay Shipping, and Star Shipping.
Most of Navarik's applications run using open source tools such as the Linux operating system, Apache web server, PostgreSQL relational database, and PHP scripting language, although they exchange data with a variety of different IT systems, often using secure XML formats. Navarik made early and extensive use of web application technologies that would later become known as Ajax.
After its founding, Navarik had an office in Vancouver's Yaletown, then moved to the city's historic Sun Tower in 2001, and in 2005 to an office near False Creek and the future site of the athlete's village for the 2010 Winter Olympics. In 2003 and 2004, before he published his first book, well-known web designer Dave Shea was Navarik's Creative Director.
The company's founders, with backgrounds in shipping and technology, started Navarik to try to reduce the overload of communications that those working in shipping were beginning to face, and to build easy-to-use, advanced web applications that users could access securely from any Internet-connected computer anywhere in the world. The company's name derives from Naravik (a.k.a. Sedna), the Inuit goddess of the sea. As a private company, Navarik does not disclose its financial results publicly.
