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Solar Solve Marine’s Chairman John Lightfoot and Sales Executive Paul Hopkins recently returned from a very successful booth at the New Orleans Workboat Show with more than 50 enquiries from existing customers and potential new ones. Having been a supplier of anti glare, heat rejecting roller screens to the United States Army, Navy and Coast […]

South Shields based Solar Solve Marine has just received another order from Italthai Marine Ltd in Thailand. The shipbuilder, based in Samut Prakarn in the Gulf of Thailand near Bangkok, has been building a series of Platform Supply Vessels (PSV’s) over recent years for companies such as Halul Offshore Services in Qatar and Opielok Reederei […]

Solar Solve Marine’s John and Julie Lightfoot returned from their visit to the Kor-Marine Exhibition in Busan with a contract worth in excess of $500,000 over the next 12 months, having also visited their world wide distributor based there. The father and daughter team, who are part owners of the South Shields, UK based family […]

2011 has seen sales for SOLASOLV® anti-glare, heat rejecting roller screens for navigation bridge and control room windows increase in the offshore oil and gas market. The screens, which are manufactured by UK based Solar Solve Marine, use a specialist shade film which protects bridge crew against the effects of sun glare and solar gain, […]

South Shields based Solar Solve Marine has just received an order for the vessel Spring Splendor from Wallem Shipmanagement in Hong Kong. The vessel, owned by Clipper in Denmark, was built at Shanghai Jiangnan-Changxing Shipbuilding in China and was delivered in January 2011. It is the second VLCC (Very Large Crude Carrier) in a series […]

Earlier this year the Japan Society of Naval Architects and Ocean Engineers selected the CITY OF ST. PETERSBURG for their 2010 Ship of The Year Award to honour the most distinguished ship or marine construction built in Japan during the year. Built by Kyokuyo Shipyard Corporation in Shimonoseki-city; the eco-friendly Roll-on Roll-off car carrier’s unique […]