The Global Marine Group (GMG) (www.globalmarine.co.uk) — a provider of offshore engineering services to the renewables, telecommunications and oil and gas sectors — has expanded its operations base in the UK to include the Port of Blyth in Northumberland.

Operating from the new base, both of GMG’s business units — CWind, which provides services to the offshore wind industry, and Global Marine, which provides fibre-optic cable solutions to various sectors — will be able to offer regionally focused support.

The expansion to the Port of Blyth is the latest step in GMG’s plan for continued growth and the development of a suite of local operational hubs.

Blyth will serve as a regional base for strategic asset management and modular equipment storage, as well as a mobilisation and deployment site for the GMG fleet, complementing the Group’s existing operational bases at Grimsby (Lincolnshire) and Portland (Dorset).

A number of GMG assets, including C.S. Sovereign and CS Recorder, will operate out of Blyth, using local engineering skills and regional business support networks.

Recently, CS Recorder and Q1000 — a jet-trenching remotely operated vehicle — set out from Blyth to undertake a cable reburial contract for the Prinses Amalia wind park, located off the Netherlands coast.