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is also the investment into its facilities in Newry, Northern Ireland and Gdansk, Poland. The business will also seek to expand the business footprint and develop its digital solutions to its core activities.

“With growth, it’s important that we manage our teams and locations, ensuring that we are completely integrated across sites. Our digital journey and the way we manage and develop our business end to end continues to evolve”.

Challenge Brings Opportunity

Despite all the challenges caused by COVID, the world also learnt to adapt, including at MJM.

With its customers having their own unique approach to returning to sea, the business saw the need for adaptations in projects. By-2021, MJM were working on various types of customer projects which also included upgrading of medical facilities aboard vessels, enabling customers to get back to sea safely. www.mjm-group.com

Despite the industry not being completely back to pre-COVID conditions, with customers looking to build financial stability before investing in bigger projects, the outlook for MJM is positive.

“Our reputation has ensured as the core market changes, we have strong existing partnerships across the sector.,” explained Gary, “we’ve built fantastic relationships with the likes of Ritz–Carlton as they enter the market - we’ve just supported them on their first new build”.

“With the sustainability measures we’re implementing as a business as well as into client projects, the next steps will be to start monitoring the output and effects,” he said.

“During our last project of 2022 we refitted 450 cabins and 21 suites in 32 days including the installation of antimicrobial lighting technology in the cabin wet units. The technology enabled MJM to support onboard health measures with antimicrobial protection within the cabin spaces for guests and crew. The project on the Marella Discovery had an installation team of over 650 people aboard. It was a large project coming off the back of smaller, COVID-restricted jobs. Whilst it was our largest project of the year, our reputation and familiarity in this scale of project were again proven in the seamless delivery, and evidence that the industry could start to return,” shared Gary.

Gary believes that the market is still very much in a recovery phase but is in a positive position to start going from strength to strength in the coming years.