Category: Foghorn Focus
Increasing Your Direct Bookings
When thinking about ticket sales in small business, one cannot deny the importance of direct bookings. Overall, more direct bookings are directly lin [...]
Achieving Quick Wins in Cybersecurity
Digital outages are inevitable for any business. A chief executive of a marine transportation company asked this great question: “How do we keep our [...]
Active Shooter Preparedness for Passenger Vessels
It is a beautiful late-spring day on the water, and everything seems to be going perfectly. Boarding concluded on schedule, the trip is underway with [...]
Under Construction
A look ahead at Vessels to be delivered in 2026 and beyond [...]
Making Waves
From dinner cruise boats to sightseeing vessels, from overnight cruise ships to passenger and vehicle ferries, 2025 saw several new vessels join PVA [...]
Celebrating the Heart of Service
In today’s ever-evolving economic landscape, businesses are facing a unique set of challenges.Rising operational costs, shifting customer expectation [...]
From Coast to Coast
Last week PVA members and partners gathered in Chattanooga, Tenn., for the PVA Rivers Region Meeting, the last region meeting of 2025. The meetings w [...]
Redefining the Digital Horizon
From our windswept home of the Åland Islands, we at Carus—one of the global leaders in digital customer solutions for the ferry industry—are setting [...]
Are the Islands Anchored to the Bottom of the Lake?
We’ve all done it, said something without really thinking first. It can lead to goofy comments or questions being blurted out, which at the best of t [...]
Empowering Maritime Decision Making
Navigating the increasingly complex ways we use, manage, and conserve the nation’s ocean and coasts requires efficient access to relevant information [...]