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nternational marine electronics specialist Actisense welcomed a host of marine industry representatives and local businesses to the official opening of its brand new premises at 21 Harwell Road, Poole, BH17 0GE, UK, on 12 October. The launch, attended by the Worshipful Mayor of Poole, Councillor Xena Dion, was a celebration of the company’s recent move from their previous 3,000 sq ft premises to a new 8,000 sq ft location. It was also a chance to toast an immensely successful 12 months which has seen Actisense win no less than seven awards, including regional, national, international as well as industry accolades. Phil Whitehurst, CEO of Actisense,


said: “We’ve had a great day. We were delighted that so many of our business friends and associates were able to attend and see the new home


promote business and enterprise and to raise Poole’s profile nationally and on the international stage. Actisense is a wonderful example of a company that’s really helping to put Poole on the map, contributing greatly to our regional economy and whose innovation and technical skill is world-renowned”. From modest beginnings less than


Left to right: Mat McCartan; Michelle Whitehurst; the Worshipful Mayor of Poole, Councillor Xena Dion; Phil Whitehurst; Danny Thrasher; Lesley Keets; and Matt Jenkins.


of Actisense. These more spacious premises – more than twice the size of our previous base – will give us room to be even more productive and inventive and respond even more effectively to our customers’ needs”. Following a relaxed and informal


Buy-out for Sealift2


A successful management buy-out has been announced by Sealift2 International Ltd, a designer and operator of unique, eco-friendly floating dry docks, and its parent company, Welcome Inn Investments NV, of its marine services business at Haslar Marina in Gosport. Welcome Inn Investments


owns the intellectual property and


patents on the fast boat lifting technology used in Sealift2 docks. This enables the floating docks to provide a lift, clean and relaunch service in under an hour – like a car wash for boats. It also transforms the usual five-seven day turnaround required for anti-fouling to less than 24 hours. “The MBO will enable us to


expand our operations internationally, with a new focus on licensing our fast boat lifting technology for local manufacture,” said Richard Bayley, Managing Director and majority shareholder. The boat servicing operations at Haslar Marina will operate under a new UK company,


Sealift3 Ltd, and sales of docks and licensing of IPR will be handled by Welcome Inn Investments trading as Sealift3. All existing staff, suppliers and customers of Sealift2 International will be transferred to Sealift3 and Sealift2 International will cease trading. The first Sealift2 dock was


launched in 2006 and operated ACI opens marina 22


Veljko Barbieri Slano Marina, which is marina No. 22 in the Adriatic Croatia International Club (ACI) chain, has been completed by Marinetek NCP as a perfect tie-in with ACI’s 33rd birthday. Slano is the first new marina to be built for ACI in 18 years. Situated just 30 km from the


historic part of Dubrovnik and 49 km from Cilipi Airport, Slano is a favoured


tourist destination sheltered in a 2 km bay. The new 200-berth marina will in general accommodate vessels up to 20 metres in length and be home to small charter fleets. Larger visiting boats can moor up if space permits. “We expect berth occupancy to be 50:50 for Croatians versus overseas boat owners,” said Marina Director Danijela Stankovic. “Most of our Croatian


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customers will come from Dubrovnik so that they can be closer to the nearby islands. In terms of charter, we already have one client signed up with a 5-10 boat fleet that should eventually expand to 20,” she added. Designed to exceptionally high


standards and with a build cost in excess of HRK 60 million (over eight million Euros), Slano Marina is


in Cowes, Isle of Wight. Since then, docks have been installed in Dubai, Gosport, Brixham and, more recently, at Cardiff Marina. A new Sealift3 was towed from Devon to Wales and then lifted by crane across the Cardiff Bay Barrage before being installed at the marina beside the city’s International Sports Village


configured with expensive Indonesian hardwood decked Marinetek concrete pontoons. Heavy Duty 3000AC pontoons were used to create two 120 m long x 3 m wide piers. Type 3800BR pontoons (without keels) form a breakwater to the North and a breakwater of 4300BRK units (with keels) protects the marina basin from the West. A 100 m long x 4.3 m wide walkway was also installed at the shoreline. All berths are served by Marex painted stainless steel pedestals.


drinks reception and short presentation, the Mayor was invited to cut the ribbon that officially declared the new Actisense premises open. Councillor Dion declared: “I’m


particularly gratified to be here today. As Mayor, two of my aims are to


20 years ago, operating out of a back bedroom in Phil’s house, Actisense now has 70 distributors operating in 40 countries covering the US to Singapore, from Spain to Finland and from New Zealand to Iceland. It will soon be expanding into China and South America and in 2017, aims to develop its market in the Middle East. Phil added, “With even greater growth on the horizon, we’ve moved at just the right time. We’re really looking forward to the opportunities that our new larger premises will enable us to take”.


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