Coming the day before the National Spending Review was announced in the UK you would expect any Seawork conference session from HM Government to be a little reserved when talking procurement, but that wasn’t the case at all. 

The session, moderated by Mark Albon, director of the Maritime Defence & Security Group (MDSG) at the Society of Maritime Industries (SMI), was held on the first day of Seawork and was an interesting and lively discussion on the support available to commercial marine SMEs now and for the future.