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As COVID continues to create business hurdles globally, the SMS Group, based within the Port of Southampton in the UK, announced that it has recorded its busiest year in company history. \u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Traditionally a ship repairer, SMS Group invested in a team of industry professionals to establish, develop and deliver in the challenging interior outfit and marine refurbishment sector within the cruise industry \u2013 and 2021 was the defining year.<\/p>\n Dan Lockyer, who heads up the team, said: \u201c2021 was our year. \u00a0It\u2019s the fourth year on this journey, and ironically the 22nd year that I\u2019ve been in this industry. \u00a0On the back of the Covid hiatus, and the industry restarting, we\u2019ve achieved some phenomenal milestones.\u201d<\/p>\n The company has completed cruise refit projects across Europe, and currently has an additional three superyacht projects \u2018live\u2019 and four cruise projects under contract and in the planning\/pre-deployment stages. \u00a0<\/p>\n The SMS Group, with a history stretching back to 1958, employs more than 150 people and is based at Western Docks in Southampton, UK. maritime professional<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As COVID continues to create business hurdles globally, the SMS Group, based within the Port of Southampton in the UK, announced that it has recorded its busiest year in company history. \u00a0 Traditionally a ship repairer, SMS Group invested in a team of industry professionals to establish, develop and deliver in the challenging interior outfit …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/28825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
It also has sites in Glasgow, Lowestoft, Dover, Portsmouth, Poole, Bristol and Plymouth in the UK. \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n