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www.seadiscovery.com Marine Technology Reporter 55with additional products and expand- ed stocks. "The fusion allows us to connect the leading brand of underwater con- nectors to our broad range of trusted engineering services, terminations, slip rings, moulding, multiplexers and subsea systems and products pro- viding our customers with full project solutions," said Lars Hansen, MacArtney Inc. President. M.J. Stewart Associates has been the sales organization for SubConn wet mate- able connectors in the U.S. for more than 15 years and MacArtney Group responsible for SubConn sales for the rest of the world. The MacArtney Offshore office and workshop in Houston has been offering a wide range of underwater technology sys- tems and services since 1995. CTG Receives ISO9001:2008 CertificationChannel Technology Group (CTG) received ISO 9001:2008 Certification Standard issued through Bureau Veritas North Americas, Inc. CTG, a leading manufacturer of piezo-ceramics, transducers and sys- tems, attained certification with the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001:2008 for its quality management systems.CTG is backed by private equity firm Blue Wolf Capital Partners, LLC. www.channeltechgroup.com Consortium for EnhancedMetocean ServicesBMT Argoss announced its latestresearch project in partnership with Reading University and OceanExpert Ltd. The 18-month project which is co-funded by the Technology Strategy Board will look at develop- ing, trialing and implementing com-mercial decision support systems for offshore operations; designed to increase the reliability of present, operational metocean informationservices for the O&G and renewables industries. Existing services tend to provide either standalone forecasting, real-time measurements or historical statistics. With the objective to make practical and innovative use of very large and disparate data sources, BMT ARGOSS hopes to improve the understanding and forecasting of the offshore environment. Through this research project, BMT ARGOSS and its partners are developing techniques which will allow a more end-to-end service provision, with large scale environmental datasets being com- bined and assessed against local in-situ, real-time and historical measure- ments. This will allow decision support services to reflect both environmental and engineering constraints withinoffshore operations. Specialist Subsea andRenewables UnitInternational shipbroker, The Stewart Group, added depth with the appointment of Michael Braid to launch its specialist subsea andrenewables business. As part of the RS Platou ASA Group, The Stewart Group uses a network of 390 professionals with a track record of global commercial deliv- ery and time-critical market analy- sis in the shipbroking industry. The Stewart Group, which has offices in Aberdeen, London, Houston, Cape Town and Ghana, is a leader in shipbroking for the procurement of offshore support vessels, deep sea towage, salvage and ship sale/pur- chase services. The company has now added subsea and renewables capability. EIVA, AML Sign Agreement EIVA and AML Oceanographic (formerly Applied Microsystems) signed a distributor agreement with the aim of EIVA reselling the AML Oceanographic product line. EIVA will provide the AML Oceanographic products compris- ing CTD, sound velocity, and envi- ronmental instrumentation in its integrated survey and monitoring system solutions provided to the offshore energy sector, hydrograph- ic survey industry and oceano- graphic science and research insti- tutes. In addition the AML Oceanographic products will be available for integration in the EIVA ScanFish remotely operated towed vehicle, along with a wide range of other sensors.