UK Maritime Sector Support to a Strategic Base Outload: From Capacity to Competitive Advantage

UK Maritime Sector Support to a Strategic Base Outload: From Capacity to Competitive Advantage

12 Mar 26
Posted by: Capt Tim Grimley RN
14 minutes, 51 seconds read
Message from the Editor

The author reinforces the case for common sense port infrastructure national security priorities in terms of what he describes as “seamanship applied to national logistics.” A 15 minute read.

“The Strategic Base is not a place Defence owns; it is a national system that Defence must earn access to by designing resilience, building trust, and removing frictions before a crisis arrives.” – Vice Admiral Andy Kyte CB FCILT, Chief of Defence Logistics and Support Britain’s security has never been secured by ships alone. It has depended, equally, upon the ability of the nation to organise itself, commercially, industrially, legally, and socially, to deploy forces and to sustain them. In the last century we often treated that organising ability as background noise: ports would functi…

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