Seawork International

Office closure over Christmas and New Year Please note that the Mercator Media offices will be closed from 5 pm on Thursday 21st December, and will re-open on Tuesday 2nd January, when we look forward to going full steam ahead with all the preparations for Seawork International on 3 – 5 July 2018. We wish you and your business a happy, healthy and prosperous 2018.

Seawork International are offering a free enhanced listing for any organisation that books an exhibition stand or space before 21 December 2017.  This includes enhanced listing on the website, with live links and a logo, plus colour logo in the Seawork hardcopy catalogue. Contact the sales team on info@seawork.com or call +441329825335 to find out more. New exhibitors to Seawork International have been signing throughout the year, with many booking early to take advantage of the early bird discounts or free publicity offer. Seawork welcomes all these new exhibitors to Seawork who have recently signed up: A-Plan Insurance Aviramp Ltd Certas Energy Hutchinson SNC Jura Filtration OMC International (Europe) Pty Ltd ORCA Crew Services Tohatsu Marine Tufcot Engineering Ltd Factor O English Braids ISC International OU Larsens Marine Surveyors & Consultants RS Components Ltd Wardle Marine Services Warwick Control Technologies Seawork opens 3-5 ...

Seawork is working with Composites UK, the Trade Body for the UK composites industry to offer discounted exhibitor packages for their members in the Composites UK Pavilion. Composites UK Package Details - each exhibitor will receive: •             one side of a pod •             lockable cabinet •             graphics •             electrical socket •             one stool •             access to shared meeting table Price: £2,000.00 + VAT. Early bird booking offer : Book to exhibit before 20th December 2017 and receive sponsorship of the next Seawork e-newsletter free of charge (worth £625). This includes ...

Seawork 2017 exhibitor Ravestein officially launched the ‘14 DOCK’ caisson gate it recently built for the UK’s Ministry of Defence in the Naval dockyard in Portsmouth. The Netherlands-based marine operator’s huge Skylift 3000 submersible jack-up barge dominated the Southampton skyline at Seawork 2017. The Portsmouth launch was attended by the commodore Ian Shipperley, Peter Stacey, and Josh Hugo from the MoD, and Ray Harvey from BAE Systems. This event followed a fortnight after the official handover ceremony in Devonport of another Ravestein-built caisson gate ‘D 16’. Commodore Ian Shipperley personally invited mister Cees Ravestein, owner of Ravestein BV, for this handover ceremony. The launch in Rotterdam was reported to have gone very smoothly, with the caisson lifted by Bonn & Mees’ Matador 3 following concrete ballasting. Ravestein is a Netherlands-headquartered marine construction company with expertise in building lock and dock gates, having built many ...

What makes Seawork Work? It’s always interesting to find out what makes Seawork work for the 600-odd exhibitors who attend Europe’s foremost event of its kind, held each year in Southampton. Their responses were illuminating, as you’ll discover. iXblue is a French company founded over 30 years ago that provides innovative solutions for the geosciences, offshore energies and defense markets. iXblue brought its pioneering 25m hydrographic survey catamaran, named Felix, to Seawork. Guillaume Eudeline, Business Development Manager for iXblue, which is headquartered in St. Germain-en-Laye in France, and which employees over 500 staff worldwide, was thrilled with the turnout at this year’s event: “This is the fourth time iXblue has exhibited at Seawork, exhibiting our high-tech vessels and surveying equipment,” Guillaume commented. He continued, “iXblue has over 1,000 customers in 35 countries spanning workboat and defence clients; Seawork epitomises the commercial se...

We've put some statistics together from Seawork 2017 to show you why you need to be there next year - 94% of attendees said they would visit Seawork again; 91% of visitors authorise or influence purchasing decisions; 87% of exhibitors would rate their overall Seawork experience as good to excellent. Here's some feedback from Seawork 2017: “Great show as usual and great support from the Seawork core team” - Chris Brammall, SOREC “It was the first time I had attended the new venue and I thought it was great, the show had a great atmosphere.  Thank you for a great show.” - Jenny Ashdown, Cygnus Instruments Ltd “Seawork was a good show for us… being able to present a vessel in the harbour saved the day along with the nice weather.” – Guillaume Eudeline, iXblue “Seawork is a 'must' for us - we make new contacts and can see the breadth of the industry and how new products and technologies are appearing.” - Jane Gentry, YBDSA “Always a good show for Spyderco.” - Ju...

Spinlock, UK marine personal safety product manufacturer, Seawork exhibitor and winner of the 2016 Seawork Award for the Safety category, has recently been announced as winner of the Safety at Sea Awards 2017. The Safety at Sea Awards recognise those who improve seafarer competence and risk management with innovations and achievements in the fields of training, operations, equipment and services. Spinlock were presented with the Best Safety Product of the Year for their Lume-On lights; the same product that was awarded at Seawork International 18 months ago. Spinlock's CEO Chris Hill said: "We are always thrilled to receive recognition for our innovative products. We actively campaign about the importance of individuals taking personal responsibility for their safety at sea by understanding more about their own lifejacket, and part of this is ensuring you can be seen should you fall overboard thanks to our range of lifejacket lights." Spinlock's Doug Vinc...