Data and System Planning s.a. was founded in 1986 in Lugano (Switzerland) by Angelo Ravano the founder of Contship Group and is now an independent company lead by Enrico and Giambattista Ravano.

In the early years, DSP was a small team of specialists in various IT branches organized to support the top management of Contship Group in decision making and to plan and develop IT systems  for group companies involved in banking activities (based in Switzerland), container shipping (in Italy and U.K.), and intermodal transport and port activities.

Today, the main target of DSP in respect of Contship Italia Group, is to address the IT strategies of the various companies to guarantee an harmonious development respecting the peculiarity and the autonomy of the single realities.

In the last years DSP, using the acquired know-how in the IT problems of shipping, port management and intermodal transportation has enlarged is portfolio of activities offering to the market professional services  in terminal operations processes and systems deployment and optimization.

In 2007 DSP became partner of NAVIS (part of Cargotec Corporation) and certified its staff as SPARCS 3.7 and SPARCS N4 senior consultants, carrying out various international projects.

DSP has recently developed for Contship Italia Group an innovative and flexible system for automatic invoicing (Fatteuro) for container and general cargo terminals interfaced with other systems in order to manage all the necessary information to calculate and register the invoices. It is currently is use at CICT (Cagliari), EGT(Tangier), LSCT(La Spezia) and at the General Cargo Terminal SPETER of La Spezia.

DSP is also tightly linked with the new University of Applied Science of Southern Switzerland. In his team a professor of this university is leading analysis and design activities and most part of his personnel has a degree in Computer Science and where recruited there. This also gives the chance to DSP to participate to research projects on the transport and IT area and to remain always skilled with the newest technology.

DSP has recently agreed a partnership with the ISL Applications GmbH company to distribute the CHESSCON software and provide consultancy jointly with ISL Applications.