Events
Our Events
We believe in real-time conversations to fully understand your needs and see how we can help. To make this a reality, we plan to be at the upcoming events listed below and would be delighted to meet up. To make this easy, please click on the ‘book meeting’ button below and we will be in contact to find a mutually agreeable time and place to meet up.
Upcoming Events
136th UKMPA Conference – Harrogate 19th to 21st November 2024
BTA Safety Seminar 13th 14th November 2024
Recent Events
27th International Tug & Salvage Convention, Exhibition & Awards Dubai 21-23 May 2024
The International Tug and Salvage Convention, Exhibition and Awards is the world’s premier gathering of the tug, towage and salvage community held every 2 years. The key purpose of the gathering is to discuss and analyse the latest commercial, operational, regulatory and technical advances in the industry. With >1,200 delegates from 50+ countries the 27th ITS meeting is set to be another great place to discuss innovations for the tug and salvage industry.
Book A MeetingUK Chamber of Shipping
British Tugowners Association Annual Conference 1-2 May 2024
The UK Chamber of Shipping is a key forum that unites shipping across the UK, providing expert advice and advocacy to its members, including emerging trends and opportunities, including good safety practices and collaborations promoting the safety, health and welfare of seafarers through its Safety Culture Charter with the aim to reduce the number of accidents and incidents at sea.
With monthly events throughout 2024, we aim to be at several events, including:
British Tugowners Association Annual Conference 1-2 May 2024
- British Tugowners Association Annual Conference
- 1-2 May 2024
- Wotton House
- Dorking RH5 6HS
The 2024 AGM, Conference & Dinner of the British Tugowners Association will take place at Wotton House, Guildford Rd, Wotton, Dorking RH5 6HS on 1-2 May 2024 and we look forward to discussing marine towage rope safety matters with BTA members.
Book A MeetingBTA Annual Safety Seminar 2023
The 2023 BTA Annual Safety Seminar took place at The Insurance Hall in London on Thursday 16 November 2023 with a record attendance of over 100 registered attendees spanning across towage operators, pilots, port & harbour authorities, insurers, accident investigators and manufacturers. The report of proceedings goes through the event in detail, describing some of the pertinent moments from the day including presentation of sureline.
Peter Farthing, CEO of Sensor Technologies demonstrated the revolutionary technology of Sureline. A fountain pen sized rope tension sensor that offers a step change in safety to allow for crew to have greater confidence in the operation of winches and integrity of towing or mooring ropes. Peter explained how the sensors can be placed into marine ropes and a variety of metrics such as tow angles, slew angles, tension and time under tension, monitored in real time from a central control box.
The limitations of the ropes can also be visualised with the aim of preventing snap back scenarios and resulting injuries. Sensor Technologies are aiming to collaborate with five operators in partnership in 2024 to continue the trial of this potentially lifesaving piece of equipment. Peter stated that he wanted it to become a safety feature for all operators in the marine industry that utilise marine ropes.
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