Simply Abu Dhabi XXXVI

1 6 8 S I M P LY A B U DH A B I Paolo Casani, C&N’s Chief Executive Giovanni Alessi, founder of nowboat.com and C&N CITO IntelligentCharter by Julia Zaltzman A flexible and accessible approach that embraces a new generation of digital-minded charterers – that is what 236-year-old brokerage house Camper & Nicholsons International is aiming to achieve following its 2019 acquisition of digital charter platform nowboat.com. “We want to give the company a future as long as our past,” says Paolo Casani, C&N’s chief executive, and by that he means taking the technology behind digital charter platforms, and using it to strengthen the C&N brand. Here we speak to Casani, and Giovanni Alessi, founder of nowboat.com a nd C&N CITO, on the future of charter.