Alongside - Solis Marine Newsletter January 2025 issue

Nigel Clark invites you to read January 2025 issue of ALONGSIDE newsletter containing articles and updates from Solis Marine.

Welcome to our latest edition of ALONGSIDE, our regular newsletter with articles and updates from around the Solis Marine Group.

We begin this edition with the news that Jamie Simpson, one of our UK based Master Mariner consultants, has been appointed to the Lloyds Panel of Special Casualty Representatives (SCRs). Jamie’s appointment brings the total number of SCRs within Solis Marine to four and further strengthens our ability to respond quickly and to provide expert casualty management, salvage support and wreck removal services.

Next we announce that Jun Hao Liew and Andrew Ling, two of our Singapore based Naval Architects, are both to begin graduate research programmes with Newcastle University. With funding for their courses being provided by the Singapore Economic Development Fund Jun Hao will be studying for a PhD and Andrew will be aiming for an MPhil. You can read here about the programme and the innovative research topics they have each chosen to undertake.

We then bring you two informative papers prepared by Alvin Forster, Solis Marine’s Head of Marine Engineering Services, on the subject of using Biofuels within shipping as an alternative to traditional marine fuels. As the industry strives to meet the IMOs targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions Biofuels are emerging as an increasingly attractive option. Alvin was also a speaker at the recent International Human Factors Symposium where he spoke on how to bring human factor concepts to shipping companies and seafarers, as well as being a member of the panel discussing “safety culture”.

The UK Department for Business and Trade organised a mission for UK companies to meet with representatives of Brazil’s offshore oil & gas industry, and our Head of Project Engineering Christophe Dormenval travelled with the party to Rio de Janeiro. The focus of the visit was on decommissioning, and Christophe was able to identify many opportunities to explore for Solis Marine to provide our expert offshore engineering services to various projects.

We end this newsletter with news of two openings we are seeking to fill as we continue to grow the Solis Marine Group. In Singapore we are looking for an experienced Master Mariner or Naval Architect to join our Marine Warranty Surveying team, and we are also looking for a Marine Engineer Consultant to join the same office. If you have the right background and experience for either role, and if you want to join a successful and expanding independent marine consultancy, please get in touch.

We hope you enjoy this newsletter, and we look forward to bringing you our next edition in the spring.

Read Alongside via link here.

Nigel Clark

Chairman

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