People & Company NewsSHOSHIN Corporation will leverage of the Philippines and Indonesia. These such as bathymetry, surface geology its sales and marketing experience, and resources will be utilized to examine the and sub-bottom conditions. MMT will distribution capabilities within Japan to deep ocean and its connection to climate also perform a geotechnical investiga-establish Ocean Sonics as the preferred change and coastal environments. tion, cable tracking and identi? cation of provider of Digital Hydrophones. Sea and Six arrays, comprised of a total of 29 cable crossings. The offshore operations Land Technologies (SALT), headquar- moorings, will be central to this program. will be performed from MMT´s survey tered in Singapore, will supply, distribute Each mooring will be out? tted with and ROV vessel Icebeam and the coastal and support the technology of the icListen Teledyne RDI’s 75 kHz Long Ranger surveys from the survey vessel Seabeam. products in the ASEAN countries. The ADCPs, as well as a series of additional The operations will start in spring 2014.company already handles product ranges Workhorse ADCPs ranging from 150 to from many leading marine equipment 600 kHz. The ADCPs will be utilized to MacArtney Steps up Its companies making them ideal partners monitor ocean currents at depths of be-Presence in Offshore Asiafor Ocean Sonics and its range of acous- tween 400 and 6,000 m, including the tics products for the marine industry.powerful Kuroshio current, which runs MacArtney Group said it has a grow-northeast through the East China Sea. ing presence in all Asian markets for underwater technology. Over the next Teledyne RDI’s 38 kHz Ocean Surveyor UTEC Announces few months, MacArtney Singapore is fo-(OS) ADCP will also be used to collect Equipment Investment cused on growing its staff, implementing detailed, deep-water current pro? ling UTEC Geomarine, a major expansion of stock and work-data while their research vessel is under-part of the UTEC shop facilities and opening a dedicated way. Teledyne RDI worked closely with Group, announced slip ring repair and service center. its local representative, Laurel Technolo-the purchase of a The MacArtney Singapore operations gies, as well as scientists and members comprehensively will be streamlined to provide direct lo-of the WPOS program to provide a com-instrumented DB- cal access to global MacArtney support prehensive solution to meet the project’s 240 metocean buoy for all Asian and Asia Paci? c markets.speci? c long-term needs. as part of a con- With Steen Frejo at the helm as Manag-struction support ing Director, the MacArtney Singapore Svenska kraftnät Awards soliton monitoring area of operation has expanded to en-project in the region. The equipment compass the entire Asian and Asia Pacif-MMT Cable Survey Workhas been manufactured by Planet Ocean MMT has been awarded the contract for ic region including major markets such and is an upgraded version of the ba- the Själland cable survey between Den- China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and sic buoy model which comes with 12 x mark and Sweden by Svenska kraftnät. support for MacArtney’s Australia based 20W solar panels and two rechargeable Svenska kraftnät and its Danish coun- of? ce. batteries. In addition, the company has terpart Energinet.dk are the transmis- In addition, MacArtney Singapore will also purchased a 150kHz QuarterMaster sion system owners and operators of a actively manage the coordination of the ADCP manufactured by Teledyne RDI. 400 kV High Voltage AC cable system entire Asian representative network. It is rated to 1,500m water depth and can across the Öresund, between Sweden Empowered by local market expertise measure current pro? les spanning 300m and Denmark. The cable system will be and access to clients, these MacArtney of the water column. exchanged due to its technical lifetime. representatives comprise an invaluable MMT has recently been awarded the asset to the regional success of MacArt-contract for a cable route survey, with ney products and systems. Teledyne RDI ADCPs to the purpose of investigating and verify- To local offshore oil and gas, marine Support China ProjectTeledyne RD Instruments (RDI) has ing the feasibility of the new submarine renewable energy, oceanographic and cable route. This marine cable route defence industries, the expansion of Ma-been selected by the Chinese Academy survey covers geophysical information cArtney Singapore will mean shorter lead of Science’s Institute of Oceanology in times and better local service for under-Qingdao to provide their Acoustic Dop-water technology systems and products. pler Current Pro? lers (ADCPs) in sup-“The expansion of MacArtney Singapore port of the Western Paci? c Ocean System will de? nitely bring us much closer to our project. WPOS is a ? ve-year research Asian customers than what has been pos-project that commences in April 2014. sible so far,” Frejo said. “What started as a The project includes the deployment of one-man regional sales outpost, has now ? ve research vessels, a remotely oper-become a fully ? edged MacArtney loca-ated submersible and an array of sub-tion with local access to global support.”surface moorings off the eastern coasts May 2014MTR54 MTR #4 (50-64).indd 54 MTR #4 (50-64).indd 54 5/12/2014 10:22:41 AM5/12/2014 10:22:41 AM