Season’s Greetings from Cornwall Marine Network

Season’s Greetings from Cornwall Marine Network

The Cornwall marine sector has generally seen a very busy 2024 across all sub-sectors, despite the economic challenges.

For 2025, optimism is increasing with significant growth for specialist boat builders and manufacturers, the wider blue and green agenda, future fuels including hybrid options and hydrogen, aquaculture, ocean health and well-being. The further development of new green marine skills, together with the move towards maritime Net Zero and clean maritime. It is also hoped that visitor numbers return next year, after an unusually quiet season.

In 2024, CMN:

• Held 13 member events which saw over 800 members and wider stakeholder engage with us on a range of topics.
• Hosted the 3-day national Cornwall Coastal Powerhouse Summit in partnership with Maritime UK, showcasing the best of the Cornwall marine sector to the rest of the Country. The summit, held at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall, saw over 150 business leaders come together to present the Cornwall Maritime sector and debate the opportunities and challenges the industry faces.
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• Hosted 3 Government visits to showcase and discuss Offshore Renewables, Skills and Training, and highlight some of the business support models developed and deployed by CMN that improve productivity and grow businesses.
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• CMN were announced as winners of the prestigious national Maritime UK Coastal Powerhouse award for our unique achievements with members to create nearly 5,000 new jobs in Cornwall.
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• Gained listing in the Top 10 Companies to Work For in Cornwall from Business Cornwall.
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• Launched 3 new CMN Centres of Training Excellence at Cockwells, Penzance Dry Dock and Armada Engineering, giving new local training to support our members to grow, increase job creation and inspire the next generation into marine.
  Read More about Cockwells CMN Centre of Excellence
• Awarded £124,100 by the Department for Transport to invest in developing new on-line business support resources and business skills workshops to support marine businesses to improve productivity and management skills. Read More Here
• Our Cornwall Marine Academy CIC delivered careers advice to over 2,000 school students, engaged with over 40 Primary and Secondary Schools, and provided mentoring to support more than 250 young people to apply for careers in marine.
  Visit the Marine Academy website
• Reached a new milestone of over 120 Apprenticeships currently being trained across our member businesses, with all the training happening at employer premises, proving the model works for supporting SME’s.
  Read More about our employer based apprenticeship scheme
• Delivered business support to over 300 businesses through our various programmes.
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• Reached over 10,000 followers through our social channels and over 150,000 visits to our websites.
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• Launched a new training platform for our range of training for business, people and communities – more of that in 2025!
  Visit CMN Training and Skills
• Increased membership as we see a growing number of new members becoming engaged in innovation in the new sub-sectors that are emerging.
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CMN was created in 2002, and has now nearly completed 20 years of providing members with support to achieve sustainable growth, increased productivity, improved skills and bringing innovation to market. Our expert team can help you make valuable connections to drive business collaboration and improve workforce skills as you seek to grow your business.

At this time of year, our team take time to reflect upon the good things we have… like our wonderful members, partners and stakeholders. We appreciate working with you all and hope that the holidays and the coming year will bring you good health, happiness and success.

Each year we make donations to local marine charities. This year we have decided to share the donations with the Mission for Seafarers, The Wave Project, and the RNLI. This continues our support for engaging young people and people with a disability, supporting safety and the people who work at sea.

Our offices will be closed between 24th December 2024 and 2nd January 2025.

Wishing you all good health and a joyful and restful holiday period

from all at Team CMN.