News
John Murray, former SMI Chief Executive, receives New Year’s Honour
The Society of Maritime Industries is delighted to announce that former Chief Executive, John Murray, has been awarded an OBE (Order of the British Empire) in the New Year’s Honours list. The award is for his nineteen years of service in support of the UK maritime sector. During...
Save the Date
The SMI 2021 Annual Conference will take place online on the 16th & 17th March 2021. The theme of this year’s conference will be ‘Building the future of the UK’s shipbuilding enterprise’ – broadening of the National Shipbuilding Enterprise to encompass...
Current Trends in Shipping Webinar
This webinar discussed the current trends in Shipping Markets. Richard Greiner presented the latest details from the BDO Shipping Confidence Survey. Trevor Crowe of Clarksons gave a valuable insight into the current market conditions and the BPA will...
SMI and BRL Shipping Consultants Partnership
Napoleon Bonaparte is quoted as saying “War is 90% information”. In these tough market conditions with fewer opportunities it makes real sense to increase your market information to drive your sales activities. To that end SMI has negotiated special market data rates with...
New SMI Podcast: Exporting in Current Market Trends
SMI · SMI Podcast Exporting In Current Market Conditions
SMI launch its new visual identity.
SMI is delighted to launch its new visual identity. The process of analysing the brand and values of SMI has given us real insight into the way we communicate and act and the team is feeling refreshed and focussed to deliver our core ambition statement… “Be the voice...
Free space at Seatrade Maritime Middle East Virtual December 14-16th 2020
From 14 – 16 December, come online and join Seatrade Maritime Middle East Virtual – an exclusively online gathering designed to connect maritime with the Middle East market in a safe and secure environment. Through one intuitive online platform, participants can gain actionable...
SMI Podcast discussing Opportunities for Marine Autonomous Systems
Welcome to the SMI podcast series. This week we are focusing on the opportunities and advantages in Marine Autonomous Systems (MAS), as well as the role of SMI in this sector. Gain insight from two industry professionals, Terry Sloane of Planet Ocean and Geraint West of Sonardyne...
Free entry into China shipbuilding virtual event
No supplier to the newbuild sector can afford to ignore the Chinese market. The Department for International Trade (DIT) have backed a virtual event called Boatplus which aims to assist in connecting UK suppliers with the Chinese shipbuilding industry. DIT's backing means that 20 UK...
Become a member
We promote the interests of UK based companies in the international market place and to governments
Join Us See the BenefitsNewsletter Signup
Keep up to date with all the latest news and events with our regular newsletter delivered straight to your email box.
Sign Up NowMarine Autonomy Challenge (MAChallenge)
This exciting biennial challenge is open to teams of students studying at UK universities.
Learn more