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17 July 2024

King Charles III Opens Parliament: a Maritime Summary

Among the forty bills announced in the King’s Speech, there are a few that concern the maritime engineering, scientific and technology industry and – more widely – the maritime sector as a whole.

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15 July 2024

SMIFutures Early Career Profile: Courtney Story

Meet Courtney Story, Supply Chain manager at BAE Systems. In this interview, Courtney discusses seeing the value in your challenges, the benefits of peer learning and what she learned from her time living aboard a Royal Navy warship.

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12 June 2024

Society of Maritime Industries launches its Vision for Maritime

The Society Maritime of Industries (SMI) has launched its manifesto ahead of the general election, setting out its vision for the maritime sector over the next five years.

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23 May 2024

SMIFutures Early Career Profiles: Harriet Rowlands

In this interview, Harriet discusses finding her place in the maritime industry, the importance of building your professional network and gaining the confidence to voice her opinions, even in daunting environments.

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16 May 2024

Posidonia 2024: UK Pavilion Showcase Stage Programme

At this year's Posidonia, the UK Pavilion will be hosting a series of daily on stand presentations to showcase pioneering UK engineering, advanced technologies and solutions driving maritime change.

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1 May 2024

SMIFutures Early Career Profiles: Jacob Graham

Meet Jacob Graham, Head of Defence Business Unit at OCEA UK, and valued member of SMIFutures. We recently sat down with Jacob to discusses his pathway into the industry, the importance of seeing value and learning opportunities no matter the project outcome and finding an empowering workplace culture at OCEA-UK. 

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28 April 2024

SMI Job Opportunities - PTG & DTG Director

A new and exciting job opportunity has opened at SMI. We are looking for a Director for two of our sector groups, the Ports & Terminals and Digital Technology Groups. This is a key role within the SMI team and the candidate will need to work closely with colleagues to drive the continued growth of the organisation and support and engage with our members.

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24 April 2024

Babcock takes on full Type 23 upkeep responsibility for Royal Navy

Babcock has been awarded the contract to manage the Type 23 class frigate Refit Support Group

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16 April 2024

AUKUS Trilateral Advanced Capabilities Forum bring industry together for first time

AUKUS Advanced Capabilities Industry Forum will see the participation of 12 Trade Associations representing the Australian, US and UK industry in the aerospace, defence, security, maritime and tech sectors alongside senior government officials from the three allied partners.

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2 April 2024

SMIFutures: Early Career Profiles - Tirren Ambroziak

Meet Tirren Ambroziak, oceanographic engineer and valued member of SMIFutures. We recently sat down with Tirren to discuss entryways into maritime careers, overcoming imposter syndrome and carving your own path in the industry.

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Marine Autonomy Challenge (MAChallenge)

This exciting challenge is open to teams of students studying at UK universities. The first phase involves a video submission and the finals take place in November this year. Each qualifying team will be provided with an industry simulator to enable them to build the autonomous behaviours required to achieve a series of challenges.

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