{"id":819,"date":"2019-09-20T13:17:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T13:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/fsiblog\/?p=819"},"modified":"2019-09-20T13:17:20","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T13:17:20","slug":"mariime-uk-solent-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/2019\/09\/20\/mariime-uk-solent-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"Maritime UK Solent Launched"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the inaugral Maritime UK <\/a>[follow the link to see a great video]awards held in Southampton on the 19th Sept, attended by the Minister for Shipping Nusrat Ghani (@Nus_Ghani)\u00a0the launch of the Solent regional hub was formally announced.
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Key facts…<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nAs a regional hub the compact area of the Solent demonstrates the importance of the maritime sector both to the region and to the UK as a whole.
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Building 176 on Boldrewood Innovation campus – our home since 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nIts great to see the Solent being promoted to a wider audience as the excellent place it always has been to live and work.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Our Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute <\/a>has been at the heart of \u00a0these efforts since it was formally launched in 2012 with its first director Prof Ajit Shenoi from Ship Science.\u00a0 The co-location with Maritime Engineering on our Boldrewood Innovation Campus of Lloyd’s Register Global Technology Centre\u00a0in 2014 along with partnerships our many other industry partners has been key to its increasing activity
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\nNow led by Prof Damon Teagle SMMI is actively promoting the Maritime 2050 strategy <\/a>published by the Depatment of Transport earlier this year and which sets to\u00a0 equip the UK to lead the world in maritime.\u00a0 Exciting times are ahead with the technology challenges of decarbonising shipping at the forefront as well as embracing the digital revolution especially in the ever inrceasing use of maritime autonomous systems.
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Fleur in Action<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nAll of this makes it\u00a0an excellent time to study Maritime Engineering as part of our Ship Science programmes. Our dedicated admisisons team always welcome\u00a0enquiries or why not\u00a0 visit us on the next University open\u00a0day on Saturday 12th October<\/a>\u00a0and see our state-of-the-art faciltities including our 138 m long wave and towing tank
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At the inaugral Maritime UK [follow the link to see a great video]awards held in Southampton on the 19th Sept, attended by the Minister for Shipping Nusrat Ghani (@Nus_Ghani)\u00a0the launch of the Solent regional hub was formally announced. As a regional hub the compact area of the Solent demonstrates the importance of the maritime sector … Continue reading Maritime UK Solent Launched<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4066,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,9,11,21],"class_list":["post-819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-career-opportunities","tag-maritime-2050","tag-maritime-engineering","tag-shipscience"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4066"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}