Save the date! MIIN & NIMO - Cross-border Marine Industry Networking & Tour Event

📅 Thurs 2nd - Fri 3rd Oct 2025

🕐The event runs over 2 days, Thursday afternoon & evening, and Friday morning, finishing with lunch.  
📍 The event starts in Newry on Thursday afternoon, we will visit locations like Kilkeel, Greenore, Dundalk and finish in Newry, Friday afternoon. 

🚌 A bus transfer will be provided for the industry tour.

🍽️ Lunch & Networking dinner provided. 

 

SAVE THE DATE! Registration opening soon.

Join MIIN & NIMO this October 2nd & 3rd for our MIIN-NIMO cross border Marine Industry Networking Event and Industry Tour! 

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As an attendee at our event, you will get first hand Marine Industry insights and networking opportunities with marine companies from the Carlingford Lough region.

Some of the marine industry companies we will visit are listed below (subject to change), with a full agenda to be confirmed soon! Stay tuned!  

  • MJM Marine offers a complete turn-key solution for the outfitting of all spaces on board Cruise Ships, Ferries, Yachts and vessels of any type. (Newry)
  • Sea Source is a co-operative owned by the fishermen in Northern Ireland who have been catching, landing and selling their world class seafood in Kilkeel since 1853.
  • G Smyth Boats is a boat builder operating from Kilkeel harbour, building fishing boats and offering a repair service to the local and visiting fleet. Including the newly designed 12m Catamaran fishing vessel.
  • DR marine operate the UK’s largest independent fleet of specialist guard vessels, providing exceptional offshore guard and support services across Europe. (Kilkeel)
  • Doyle Shipping Group are an Irish Owned Shipping and Logistics Company with offices in Belfast, Greenore, Dublin, Cork, Fenit and Foynes. (Greenore)
  • Xocean are ocean data specialists, founded in 2017, using Uncrewed Surface Vessels (USVs), they provide turnkey ocean data. From mapping the seabed to environmental monitoring. (Rathcor)

The event will end after lunch on Friday afternoon. 

Stay tuned on our MIIN events page for registration – it will open in the coming weeks!

For further information contact info@miin.ie

 

About NIMO

Northern Ireland Maritime and Offshore (NIMO) was formed in 2023, as a not for profit organisation to bring together members from across industry, government and academia as a regional cluster with a clear purpose “to unite the Maritime and Offshore sectors in Northern Ireland to drive local economic expansion and unlock opportunities sustainably, through innovation and collaboration”.  

About MIIN

The Marine Ireland Industry Network (MIIN) is made up of a diverse array of companies, state organisations, research groups and higher education institutes, working in Ireland’s blue economy. The Network was established in 2016 with the aim of bringing together the many elements of Marine Ireland focusing on building collaborations and providing opportunities for members to showcase their successes. Ultimately building an impactful profile for Ireland’s marine industry at home and abroad.