Strathclyde Business School helps bring marine services to Glasgow

A marine services company which provides specialist support to the offshore renewable industry has announced ambitious plans to expand its operations to Glasgow, having worked closely with the University of Strathclyde’s Business School.

Green Marine Solutions has grown from a start-up to a business valued at £2.2m in just 11 months of trading. Established in the North East of England, the company provides professional marine and specialist support services to the offshore renewable industry, from logistics, human resources and port management to the disposal of unexploded wartime mines.

The marine services company will move to Scottish Enterprise's Inovo building, in Glasgow's International Technology and Renewable Energy Zone (ITREZ) next to Strathclyde’s new Technology and Innovation Centre (TIC) building. They hope the new premises will eventually provide opportunities to develop a training division for graduates looking to enter the burgeoning Scottish renewable sector.

The announcement comes as Managing Director, former Master Mariner and Strathclyde Business School MBA alumnus, Justin Moseley and fellow directors Richard Pargeter and Crispian Jones toast a successful first year in which the company has seen turnover and profit treble.

Strathclyde support

Moseley credits his experience as a Merchant Seafarer and the strategic outlook he gained from his MBA studies, together with the continued support of Strathclyde Business School, the University of Strathclyde's Entrepreneurial Network and Scottish Enterprise, with Green Marine Solutions’ success to date.

He said: "Having spent the better part of 20 years at sea, piloting and servicing marine vessels of all types, I've learned how to be versatile and have applied this knowledge to developing a shoreside career in the marine and renewable sectors."

But a career’s worth of operational knowledge would not have equipped me to take the plunge to start a new business venture, had it not been complemented by the strategic and leadership skills I learned while at Strathclyde Business School.

Management software market

Green Marine Solutions, which already employs eight full-time staff, also plans to enter the lucrative management software market with its Real-time Offshore Asset Management (ROAM) programme, which was initially designed to boost efficiency in the construction of offshore wind farms but has wider operational applications.

Susan Hart, Executive Dean of Strathclyde Business School, said: "Some of the world's leading business executives are MBA graduates and the success of Green Marine Solutions to date is another clear example of what can be achieved when management theory is applied in practice to a viable business plan."