Nash Maritime is expanding its base on the UK south coast in response to increasing demand for its services from the offshore wind sector.
The company, based out of Ocean Village Innovation Centre (OVIC), in Southampton, is increasing its on-site workspace and its network of associates.
Nash Maritime, launched by Jamie Holmes and Ed Rogers, has benefited from in-house business support by Southampton-based OVIC and an IT hardware grant from Solent Local Enterprise Partnership during the pandemic.
Nash Maritime, which first started out at OVIC with a virtual address before physically moving into a serviced office, is looking to expand the team to upwards of 20 across the UK and internationally.
Latest project successes include working for a number of bidders across 8GW of capacity auctioned by the Crown Estate.
Nash Maritime’s clients won nearly 3GW in the auction of seabed leases.
A further 10GW of capacity is currently being offered in Scotland and Nash Maritime is using new computers, acquired through a Solent LEP Covid-19 grant, to run programmes remotely for bidders.
These include complex geospatial constraint analysis and navigation risk models which feed into the design of the offshore wind farms and also the subsequent Environmental Impact Assessments.
Holmes said: “Nash Maritime is proud to play a role in the global energy transition, developing a net-zero carbon future for the UK.
“Our growth, which sees us shortly moving into our third office at OVIC, has been helped by the sage advice from OVIC’s in-house innovation director, Monika Dabrowska (pictured).
“Along with mentoring and strategy, Monika signposted us to a range of innovation grants, including the one from Solent LEP which enabled us to purchase powerful PCs for remote use.
“OVIC is a cracking environment for small companies like Nash Maritime, allowing us to be flexible on space requirements, draw upon the complimentary business support and collaborate with other on-site maritime consultancies such as MarineSpace and DHI Water Environments UK.”
Nash Maritime was also recently appointed as the shipping and navigation consultant on the first two proposed floating wind farm projects off England and Wales.