A Message from the Chief Executive


John Murray with Steve Marshall, Premier of South Australia


Can we help your company?


A prime function of the team in SMI is to assist our members in sourcing business opportunities and entering new markets, providing timely information, contacts through our programme of networking events and promoting our members’ business through the SMI web site and annual directory, which is circulated worldwide. Our primary interest is pointing a company in the right direction to grow.


Sourcing UK Maritime Industries Capabilities


A list of our members can be found towards the end of this Review; however, a visit to our web portal, www.maritimeindustries.org, reveals a comprehensive product search facility covering a wide range of categories and designed with the professional procurement manager in mind.


Future Opportunities


Early in 2019 the UK government published its strategy Maritime 2050: Navigating the Future. This provided a wide range of


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John Murray Chief Executive


Society of Maritime Industries Annual Review 2019


recommendations towards which government and industry can work together to deliver increasing prosperity for the economy. An early outcome has been the creation of a Clean Maritime Plan as the environment route map of the strategy and which all stakeholders can adopt to provide the solutions the global industry will require if it is to meet the IMO targets for greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.


Furthermore, the creation of the UK’s first national maritime research and innovation hub, MarRI‐UK, will ensure that the industry can develop the technologies to meet the decarbonisation agenda and provide the products and services for which there will be global demand.


OUR MISSION is to promote and support the interest of all companies that do business in the maritime industries. For more information on the Society of Maritime Industries either visit our website or email: info@maritimeindustries.org.


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