SeaSafe’s thriving export sales

SeaSafe continue to break into new markets with recent sales to South America and Japan adding to the 40 plus countries they now export to.

21 April 2010 - SeaSafe Systems Ltd, the long established manufacturer of marine safety clothing, continue to build their export business with new customers gained in Japan and Brazil – two markets notoriously difficult to break into with Japanese customers traditionally favouring domestic products and Brazil applying a whopping 70% import duty from the UK. Other countries that have now started to source from SeaSafe include Canada and Kenya, adding to the forty plus countries worldwide that SeaSafe sell to. SeaSafe invented the ‘combination’ coat and lifejacket – a foul weather coat with concealed lifejacket – and their coats have an outstanding reputation for quality and durability. So much so that it is not uncommon for the company to get one back for a service and check-up 15 years after it was first sold to the customer – SeaSafe can always date a coat by its serial number. Long been the preferred choice of commercial mariners, SeaSafe estimates there are now tens of thousands of their combination lifejackets “in circulation” around the world. With so many harbour pilots and other commercial mariners depending on SeaSafe jackets everyday of their lives, the company maintains an extensive network of overseas service centres so that customers have a location in their own country to get any repairs undertaken or an annual safety check. Many of these service centres double up as overseas agents or distributors for SeaSafe. Most British marine clothing companies have now outsourced manufacturing to Eastern Europe or Asian countries, but SeaSafe still manufacture at their factory in Cowes on the Isle of Wight. And every coat or jacket sold to a commercial marine customer is still ‘bespoke’ – made to the customer’s exact requirements. For more information about SeaSafe visit their website at: www.seasafe.co.uk. - ends -