Milestones

Great Yarmouth, UK: GeoAcoustics Ltd, a manufacturer of hydroacoustic technology for commercial and scientific applications has been honored with the first ever King’s Award for Enterprise for International Trade.

Stockholm launches the world's first self-driving commercial passenger ferry - entirely powered by electricity. The Norwegian shipping company Torghatten AS is behind the initiative and will operate the passenger ferry between the Stockholm islands of Kungsholmen and Södermalm.

Fugro's remotely operated vehicle (ROV) introductory training course has received International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) approval, marking a significant milestone for the company and the offshore industry at large.

Armada Engineering, a marine engineering company based in Falmouth in Cornwall, has launched the first training centre for hydraulics in the South West of England. The company has been approved as an accredited training centre by the British Fluid Power Association (BFPA), the UK trade association for the fluid power industry.

The team at Feritech Global are celebrating after the announcement from Buckingham Palace that they will receive a King’s Award for Enterprise for their outstanding success in international trade.

Fulkrum, a leading provider of inspection, expediting, auditing and technical staffing services, has been awarded the internationally recognised 2023 ‘King’s Award for Enterprise: International Trade’ following personal approval from His Majesty The King.

Exail has concluded its first sale of the Rovins 9 DVL, its brand-new combined INS and DVL navigation system, to Fugro, the world leader in geo-intelligence and asset integrity solutions.

The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project - the global initiative to map the world’s entire ocean floor before the end of the decade - has entered into a new partnership with ACUA Ocean, which develops zero-carbon emission uncrewed surface vessels.

Hunting Energy Services Ltd. (Hunting) has announced a key appointment for its well intervention rental division as it continues to grow and expand into new markets.

It’s a market differentiator for Precision Design Engineering – the acquisition of state-of-the-art automated, robotically fed manufacturing machine tools…increasing productivity and lowering cost.

Organizers of the International WorkBoat Show and the Underwater Intervention Conference and Exhibition (UI) announced that the two events would be co-located in New Orleans in 2023.

The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project and Saildrone, a leading provider of unmanned surface vehicles (USVs), have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to collaborate on advancing ocean mapping technology in support of the global effort to map the entire ocean floor.