contracts Next Geosolutions, Naples, Italy, has signed a five-year framework agreement on legal terms and con-ditions for the provision of offshore subsea investigation services to support global offshore projects, including enhancing process effi-ciency and standardizing contract-ing practices. Operations will be carried out using NextGeo’s fleet of offshore units. TotalEnergies. SFL Missions Inc., Toronto, Cana-da, will develop the AISSat-4 mar-itime ship tracking microsatellite for launch in less than one year. AISSat-4 will expand operational capacity in Norway’s maritime sit-uational awareness network. It is being developed on SFL’s SPARTAN 6U nanosatellite platform and will carry a mini-AIS receiver built by Kongsberg Seatex. The Norwegian Space Agency. EcoNavis Solutions, Glasgow, Scot-land, has secured its first commer-cial contract for the Eco Boss Cap, with two purchase orders. The en-ergy-saving, emissions-reducing hub will be retrofitted to a general cargo carrier operated by a Thai-land-based ship manager. Undis-closed. Greensea IQ, Richmond, Vermont, will integrate its EverClean robotic hull grooming system with OPT’s WAM-V USV platform to develop a fully autonomous launch and re-covery system to enable more effi-cient and environmentally respon-sible hull maintenance operations. Ocean Power Technologies. SAFE Boats International, Bremer-ton, Washington, has been awarded a contract to build a new fireboat. City of Bremerton Fire Department. Achilles, Abingdon, U.K., has signed an agreement to bring a shipping company in Asia-Pacific into the Achilles Maritime Network. This latest addition to the collabo-rative industry initiative brings the total number of vessels in the pro-gram to more than 2,200 as mari-time players continue to engage with sustainable and responsible business practices. Swire Shipping. The U.S. Marine Corps, Wash-ington, D.C., has awarded a task order to procure Bayonet 250 sys-tems. The amphibious unmanned ground vehicles will support the littoral explosive ordnance neutral-ization family of systems for mine countermeasures and subsea threat mitigation in the littoral battlespace. Greensea IQ. Teledyne RD Instruments, Poway, California, in partnership with Aqua Vision, has secured a contract for more than 80 WorkHorse II ADCP sensors to support nationwide wa-ter monitoring programs across the Netherlands. Rijkswaterstaat. ST November 25—Maritime Security & Defence Conference, Hamburg, Germany. www.smm-hamburg. com/msd-conference. November 25-26—Offshore En-ergy, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://oeec.biz. DECEMBER December 3-5—International WorkBoat Show, New Orleans, Louisiana. www.workboatshow. com. 2026 FEBRUARY February 3-5—EUROMARITIME, Marseille, France. www.euromari time.fr. February 16-18—Geo Week, Den-ver, Colorado. www.geo-week. com. February 22-27—Ocean Sciences Meeting, Glasgow, Scotland. www. agu.org/ocean-sciences-meeting. MARCH March 10-12—Oceanology In-ternational, London, U.K. www. oceanologyinternational.com. March 23-26—MTS Buoy Work-shop, St. Petersburg, Florida. www. mtssociety.org/buoy-workshop. APRIL April 14-16—UDT, London, U.K. https://udt-global.com. AUGUST August 24-27—ECSA 61: Bridging the gap between science and pol-icy in estuarine and coastal ma-rine biodiversity: the way forward, Brussels, Belgium. www.cmscoms. com/?p=45183. DECEMBER December 2-4—Undersea De-fence Technology, Adelaide, Aus-tralia. https://udt-global.com/aus tralia. meetings NOVEMBER November 4-6—Deepwater Op-erations and Topsides, Platforms & Hulls Conference and Exhibi-tion, Galveston, Texas. www.off shore-event.com. November 4-6—Sustainable Ocean Summit and Global Blue Finance Summit, Barcelona, Spain. www.oceancouncil.org. November 4-7—Europort, Rotter-dam, Netherlands. www.europort. nl. November 5-6—European E-Fuels Conference, Hamburg, Germany. www.wplgroup.com/aci/event/eu ropean-e-fuels-conference. November 12-14—Marine Renew-ables Canada Conference, Halifax, Canada. https://marinerenewables conference.ca. November 19-21—Vietnam Inter-national Marine & Offshore Expo, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam. marine-viet nam.com and offshorewindviet. com. www.sea-technology.com For more industry meetings, visit sea-technology.com/meetings. ST October 2025 | ST 43
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