In January this year, Longitude’s parent company ABL Group completed the acquisition of Proper Marine and announced plans to merge the two companies, thereby creating an even stronger international design and engineering house that is capable of serving clients globally.
The merger has also strengthened the group’s offering in both Brazil and the wider Americas within vessel design and conversion, asset integrity management and life extension, and marine and energy operations engineering.
Including, Proper Marine, Longitude now counts more than 200 specialist marine and offshore engineering consultants.
“Our re-branding to Longitude symbolizes a new chapter for us, but our customers have access to the same quality, same expertise and the same trusted team – now with even greater capabilities, backed by a broader global footprint and deeper technical resources,” says Bernardo Xavier, co-founder of Proper Marine and regional director for Longitude Brazil and South America.
Longitude is the design and engineering arm of Oslo-listed global consultancy ABL Group. Longitude specializes in design and engineering for facilities and subsea, marine operations, ship design and offshore wind.
It joins in Brazil other ABL Group companies:
- ABL – specialists in marine assurance and risk and maritime services
- OWC – specialists in owners engineering and technical due diligence to support the development of renewable energy onshore and offshore
