Connecting with the Chinese Maritime Sector at Marintec 2025
Norwegian Subsea has returned from a successful trip to Shanghai, where our compact Motion Reference Units (MRUs) drew strong interest from across the Chinese maritime supply chain during the Marintec China 2025 exhibition. As one of the world’s leading maritime events, Marintec provided an ideal platform to engage with shipbuilders, integrators and equipment manufacturers in a region where innovation and scale go hand in hand.
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China remains one of the most important shipbuilding nations globally, and Marintec serves as both a regional and international meeting point for maritime professionals and technology providers. The scale of the Chinese shipbuilding sector continues to create strong demand for high-quality onboard systems, and motion compensation is a critical part of that.
Proven motion compensation for cranes, gangways and LARS
For Norwegian Subsea, this year’s Marintec exhibition centred around motion compensation for ship cranes, gangways and launch and recovery systems (LARS). These applications have long been a primary use case for MRUs, where stable and reliable motion data is essential for safe and efficient operations at sea.
From offshore vessels supporting wind installations to crew transfer vessel and research vessels launching smaller crewed or uncrewed craft, our MRUs are already widely deployed in systems that depend on real-time vessel motion data. With no recalibration required and high accuracy in dynamic sea states, Norwegian Subsea MRUs offer shipbuilders a reliable sensor system for motion compensation duties for newbuild installation and retrofit upgrades.
Supporting shipyards with integration-ready platforms
Designed for ease of integration and long-term operation no maintenance, Norwegian Subsea’s MRUs are helping shipyards meet modern requirements across a range of onboard systems. In addition to gangways and LARS, our tech is used in motion-sensitive applications including helideck monitoring, winch control and wave radars.
In Shanghai, our team was able to show how Norwegian Subsea MRUs support a wide variety of operational needs while remaining straightforward to install, maintain and support. With a compact footprint, flexible form factors and a robust data output, our products make it easy to provide motion compensation data onboard, while offering long-term reliability with no requirment to return the MRU for factory recalibration.
Motion data for evolving performance use cases
At Marintec, we also noted growing interest in emerging applications where MRUs support digital decision tools and operational performance. This includes use cases focused on hull behaviour, voyage planning and fuel use, where accurate motion data can play a role in supporting efficiency and insight.
For Chinese OEMs and digital system suppliers, Norwegian Subsea provides a motion platform that is easy to work with and compatible with a range of maritime systems, and as interest in performance data grows, we are committed to enabling smart, scalable motion sensing that complements both traditional and next-generation onboard technologies.
A valued meeting point
We were encouraged by the strong engagement at Marintec. Our team connected with a wide range of stakeholders from across China’s maritime sector, shared insights on the growing importance of motion data in onboard systems, and confirmed the potential for further collaboration. It was a valuable reminder of how Norwegian Subsea’s MRU technology can contribute to the evolution of China’s shipbuilding and marine equipment industries as they adopt higher standards of operational reliability and system performance.
Norwegian technology is already trusted worldwide for its dependability, and we look forward to deepening our presence in the Chinese market. From shipyards and integrators to equipment suppliers and vessel owners, our motion reference platforms offer a proven solution for today’s integrated maritime systems.
