Nour Al Sayyed, COO, Al Marakeb , briefing to Chaitali Bag ADU at NAVDEX 2019. (Transcribed Video).

Hi, my name is Nour Al sayyed. I’m the Chief Operating Officer at Al Marakeb, boat manufacturing. We are an autonomous systems provider, our company is located in Sharjah and we’ve been in operation since 2007.  Whilst we do build GRP vessels, our main focus is an autonomous systems, particularly our Mac Pro device which is a patented technology in maritime autonomy.

We are one of the few I would say, providers of autonomous systems in the maritime field, we began our research and development in the year 2009 and this is our third consecutive NAVDEX. Now behind me as you can see is an 11 metre USB, this is the bye product of several different vessels in our fleet, unmanned surface vessels but the core of the technology is the map Pearl device which allows for modular integration and communicating with a remote ground control station which is also something that we do provide.

The 11 metre vessel, especially one that is integrated with a MILAS rocket launcher as you can see, makes its first debut at NAVDEX 2019.