Category: Chairman’s Blog

It was a great thrill for me personally, when I saw on page 35 of the 23rd June 2017 issue of the Daily Mail, a super photo, spread across half the page, of the Mega Container Carrier OOCL HONG KONG.  It was titled ‘NOW THAT’S TITANIC!’ and sub-headed ‘World’s biggest cargo ship docks in Britain.’ […]

History was made on Monday 26 June 2017 as HMS Queen Elizabeth, the first QE Class aircraft carrier, set sail from Rosyth to commence first-stage sea trials off the north-east of Scotland.  QE is by far the most powerful ship ever built in Britain, is the largest aircraft carrier in the world outside the United […]

Donald Trump may not think so but at Solar Solve we think Going Green is actually THE Trump Card and we have done for more than 15 years.  In 2001, we began to commission strictly controlled independent laboratory tests to enable us to promote the ‘GREEN’ features of the SOLASOLV® solar shade film, as one […]

Following on from my last blog and staying with the GO-GREEN theme, it has transpired that Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the USA from the Paris Agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, has brought the other 194 nations who are signed up to it, closer together to help protect the environment for future generations. After […]

Here in the UK, whilst the first day of summer officially begins around the 21st of June, we tend to get a lot of nice days and sometimes our best days of the year, throughout the month of May.There are people who will say the reason is due to Global Warming.  However historical records, such […]

I read in a recent report about the current state of orders within the ship building industry that, in the opinion of the well-respected author, ‘Higher prices for new vessels appear to be here to stay’. For most of us who serve the global marine industry this has to be the good news we have […]