Survitec Group Limited, one of the global leaders in critical safety and survival solutions, has announced the opening of a new facility in Miami, strengthening its North American servicing capability.
Simon Withey, Survitec Group CEO, commented on the new business: Survitec Group has carefully chosen the Miami market as a strategic location to ensure we offer the highest quality service and a complete range of on board survival equipment, particularly in marine evacuation solutions, to our worldwide commercial marine and cruise industry partners.
Formerly part of Wilhelmsen Ship Services, the new Survitec Group Miami service station will provide inspection, servicing and sales of multi-branded lifesaving appliances including liferafts, marine electronics, lifejackets, immersion suits and boats. It will also service a large number of Marine Evacuation Systems (MES) for the local cruise and ferry industry, including SurvitecZodiac medium evacuation systems and slide (MIS), and the RFD Marin Ark.
Customers will be able to benefit from Survitec's new liferaft hire and exchange service, launched a year ago, as part of its new Global Services capability.
In the last two years Survitec Group has acquired the commercial marine businesses DBC Marine Safety Systems and Zodiac SOLAS. These acquisitions have expanded the global footprint of Survitec Group's services and product distribution centers, while increasing the volume and variety of products and services available to Survitec customers. It has also added Bremerhaven and Algeciras to its European network and more recently a joint venture with Servaux to cover Marseille and Le Havre, two main ports in France.
The Miami facility will form part of Survitec's North American operations, with further locations in Jacksonville, Florida; Sharon Center, Ohio; Delta, British Columbia and Houston, Texas. The new acquisition is part of Survitec's strategy to expand the services element of the business in key ports around the world, which has grown from 12, only two years ago, to the current total of 54 facilities where Survitec Group services are offered through their own personnel.
