Marine Industrial Design
2025 Sub-contractor or SME of the Year – Service: Marine Industrial Design — Marine Industrial Design provides naval architecture and technical advisory services for Royal New Zealand Navy ships. Marine Industrial Design made themselves immediately available to help efforts to save HMNZS Manawanui following its grounding off Samoa, including surging a team to gather, analyse, and provide drawing and design information to understand the implications of damage to the ship. A secondary response was support for salvage operations, including detailed drawings and design plans around how best to access items to be recovered, immediate activity to minimise further environmental impacts from loss of fluids, and then to guide salvors with the best location for accessing multiple tanks to remove diesel fuel, oils, and other fluids. High precision was required to penetrate tanks in the right place, the company had highly detailed plans of the ship. They downscaled other projects and activities to prioritise over half of the company into supporting OP RESOLUTION, working d