Applied Acoustic Engineering Ltd. hired Hollie Moran to the company’s sales team as the new sales manager for the EMEA region. Moran will focus on expanding the sales of the Applied Acoustics range of USBL positioning and tracking systems and sub-bottom profiling equipment, and supporting the company’s distributors in Europe, the Middle East and Africa where opportunities have grown significantly
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UTEC, a global survey company in subsea services group Acteon, has appointed Nadir Rahmatullah as the commercial and strategy director of its Middle East and Caspian operations. Rahmatullah was most recently managing director of UTEC StarNet, a specialist division of UTEC providing survey, inspection and data management services to the oil and gas, telecommunication, renewables, civil engineering and nuclear sectors.
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Sri Lanka transferred control of its port Hambantota to China in a 99-year lease, a plan designed to relieve the country’s large burden of debt. Signed in July 2017, the plan gives China Merchants Port Holdings a 70 percent stake in a joint venture with Sri Lanka Ports Authority. The lease has drawn criticism from Sri Lankans because of the
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