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France

Forssea Robotics Expands ARGOS ROV Capabilities and Forms Global Partnerships in 2025

Forssea Robotics marked its 2025 mark by unveiling its ARGOS-X hybrid ROV for USV applications, creating a tripartite partnership for global survey-augmented ROV services, conducting autonomous inspections at Saint-Nazaire wind farm, and making deliveries to French naval forces - all while furthering its commitment toward autonomous operations across offshore wind, naval, and subsea operations. These developments reflect Forssea Robotics push towards supervised autonomy across offshore wind, naval, subsea operations.

PyroScience GmbH

PyroScience Highlights Optic Sensor Advancements and Announces Year-End Winter Break

PyroScience GmbH, a specialist in optical pH, oxygen and temperature sensors for laboratory and aquatic applications, recently unveiled a quick order platform and new insertable miniprobes for O2, pH and temperature measurement, while also confirming its 2025 year end winter break schedule. These developments underscore PyroSciences longstanding leadership position in marine and aquatic sensing markets.

Red Sea

Major Shipping Lines Restart Red Sea Transits As the Houthi Ceasefire Holds

Maersk and CMA CGM began cautiously resuming Suez Canal transits after almost two years of Cape of Good Hope routing following a fragile Gaza ceasefire agreement reached in October 2025. War risk premiums have fallen significantly while security analysts caution that conditions remain volatile and could change quickly.

Royal Navy

Shark Marine Technologies Wins Contracts with Danish Navy and Royal Navy for Advanced Diver Systems

Shark Marine Technologies Inc., a premier Canadian provider of underwater technologies, was chosen by the Danish Navy for their Navigator diver-held sonar and navigation system to enhance mine countermeasures and security operations. Furthermore, Royal Navy acquired MAKO diver delivery system. These contracts indicate Shark's growing presence among global naval forces worldwide with 18 naval forces currently receiving products from this global leader.

SubC Imaging

SubC Imaging Enhances Subsea Inspections With Real-Time Streaming and Rayfin Uplink Launch

SubC Imaging marked an important achievement by performing the inaugural ABS-approved remote subsea inspection for Woodside's Shenzi asset in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico using real-time streaming. On December 2, 2025, Rayfin Uplink was introduced, providing 4K imaging with legacy ROVs without infrastructure upgrades required for HD imagery. Through partnerships and product integrations SubC Imaging is further strengthening its presence within offshore energy and marine sectors.

Framework Robotics GmbH

Framework Robotics Extends its Ocean Technology Solutions With Modular 3D-Printed Solutions

Framework Robotics, the German deep-tech manufacturer, is making a splash in the world of underwater vehicles with its broad universal construction kit for ocean technologies. Leveraging 3D printed hardware and modular, adaptable on-board software, they cater to a range of marine services including maintenance, observation and science.

PyroScience GmbH

PyroScience Expands Sensor Portfolio With New Miniprobes and Microfluidics Solutions

Optical sensor manufacturer pyroScience GmbH has introduced new insertable miniprobes for measuring oxygen, pH and temperature in semi-solid samples, as well as microfluidics sensor capability. The company specializes in delivering scientific instrumentation for laboratories and underwater science.

JouBeh Technologies

JouBeh Technologies Achieves DFO Certification and Merges with MetOcean Data Systems

JouBeh Technologies Inc. earns DFO certification for Iridium iTrac VMS to ease Canada’s fishing vessels’ compliance burden. JouBeh Technologies is also merging with MetOcean Data Systems as metOcean telematics to improve satcomms for marine applications and environmental data gathering.

Rapp Hydema AS

Rapp Hydema Extends Canadian Operations with New Marine Affiliate

Rapp Hydema has extended its North American production facilities to the Vancouver, BC area for the manufacturing and servicing of winches and LARs (launch and recovery systems), a sign of the increasing requirement for hydraulic servicing in the area. The growth here has coincided with a resurgence in the government research vessel business. The new company is Rapp Hydema Canada Marine Incorporated.

Tankers

US Steps Up Blockade on Venezuela with Tanker Seizures in Caribbean Water

“From December 10 to 22 2025 US seized tanker vessels that were apart of Venezuela’s shadow fleet the Skipper, Bella 1, in a historic effort to remove the country’s financial strings to PDVSA. For going after a third ship the ire of China in violation of international laws. The Americans have done the most serious enforcement.”

Saltwater Communications

Honda Marine Europe Has Granted Saltwater Agency an Important PR Mandate to Drive Leisure Marine Growth

Honda Marine Europe has awarded Saltwater, a BLUE Communications agency and marine communications specialist, the task to build brand profile across the leisure marine market using multi-channel PR campaigns and stakeholder engagement, assisting boat shows and dealers across Europe – driving the power behind the brand’s revolutionary outboard zero-emission engines.

Aquatec Group Ltd

Aquatec Group Strengthens Global Reach Through Strategic Partnerships and Market Presence

Aquatec Group Ltd of the UK, the subsea instrumentation company, landed another toehold in 2025 with the signing of an agreement in December with Sequoia Scientific. Japanese and Romanian partners are now on board. Aquatec expects the latest agreement to drive uptake of its subsea solution.

Rockland Scientific Advances Ocean Sensing with HiPOS Project and OMG Workshop Expansion

Rockland Scientific announces HiPOS project for the development of high-strength piezoelectric ocean sensors, and expansion of Ocean Microstructure Glider workshop program across North America. Together with Ionix Advanced Technologies, Rockland continue to grow their reach and leadership in the exciting marine turbulence measurement and observing system markets.

AXSUB

AxSUB Joins Forces with Darkwater Vision on Underwater Vision Technology for Commercial Diving

Canadian subsea equipment manufacturer AXSUB Inc. has signed the second half of that deal to commercialise the entire backlog of a complete underwater vision powered by UVAS Technology to Darkwater Vision. Together they will dive into mutual R&D & manufacturing resource submersion in the commercial diving sector in order to make waves in the data acquisition sector in hyperbaric environments.

US Navy

Coda Octopus Group Experiences 29% Revenue Growth in Fiscal Q3 2025 thanks to DAVD Milestones and Sonar Innovation

Coda Octopus Group, Inc. announced its latest revenues for fiscal third quarter 2025, 29% higher year on year propelling increased revenues powered by the marine technology and defence sector. Highlights for this quarter include: delivery of 16DAVD untethered systems to the U.S. Navy and multiple orders from major European navies; completion of DUS Hardening Program; start of production of Echoscope PIPE NANO GEN Series sonars which is taking Coda into underwater robotics applications including the application to special forces.

Maritime Piracy

Piracy Rises 46% as Singapore Strait Becoma Global Hotspot

The number of attacks worldwide climbed by 46% in the January-September period compared with 2024, with the Singapore Strait seeing 73 attacks – the same number it recorded in 1991 – yet hands-on threats to crews remained “inexplicably unresolved” despite security and enforcement upgrades around the region.

Saab

Saab Seaeye Advances UK Underwater Robotics with Facility Opening and NATO Leadership.

Saab Seaeye Ltd announced successes on its acquisition by Saab in 2025, which include the opening of a new high tech manufacturing plant in Fareham, Hampshire, and participating in a NATO initiative in the underwater battlespace that reinforces UK defence and enhances the Seaeye ROV fleet with FalconSearch and Search and Recover 20SD models while propelling growth in offshore security.

Maxon Motor Strengthens Robotics Portfolio and Showcases Innovation across Industrial Sectors

Maxon exceeded CHF 594.7m turnover for 2024, a tough year for the world. Continuing the recent trend of focusing on more integrated mecatronic solutions, Maxon has released some High Efficiency Joints, Servo Drives and E-Bike motors, also exhibited at big exhibitions based on expectations to pick up growth in the Robotics, Automation and Mobility sectors.

General Oceans Acquires RS Aqua, Strengthening UK Underwater Technology Presence

General Oceans has disclosed plans to acquire Portsmouth oceanographic sensors company RS Aqua Ltd - an acquisition that General Oceans hopes help further underpin its defense focus in subsea technology as it accelerates recent products launches and partnership, a process that RS Aqua hopes to remain independent from to drive innovation and grow.

Canada

ASL Environmental Sciences Strengthens Its Ocean Monitoring Capabilities through Strategic Partnerships and Innovation

Victoria's ASL Environmental Sciences lands '25 projects with Open Ocean Robotics to deploy acoustic monitoring tech on unmanned surface vessels; and a distribution agreement with Sofar Ocean on metocean buoy solutions for all of Canada and Alaska.