Clinton Marine Survey

Founded in 2015, Clinton Marine Survey aims to bring cost effective solutions to the offshore survey industry while ensuring a low carbon footprint. To achieve this, the company offers high quality hydrographic and geophysical surveys for navigation, dredging operations, charting, marine construction and more. The company is based in Gothenburg, Sweden, they own a number of vessels specifically designed for working in extreme shallow to medium water depths down to 500 meters. Clinton Marine Survey operates specialist shallow water survey systems capable of achieving (and in many cases exceeding) the current standards in the offshore industry.

“We own our vessels and software, standardize equipment and bring this together with competence from a team of 60 dedicated employees. As a company, we offer customized solutions for project specific requirements and client needs. We work hard to minimize our carbon footprint by using our Clinton Internet Solution, CIS. CIS has been used for the last 7 years and becomes smarter with each passing day,” prides Martin Wikmar, CEO, Clinton Marine Survey. “We focus on Quality, Health, Safety and the Environment (QHSE) in the most practical sense and use the learnings to become stronger for the future.”

The company achieves this objective through a combination of meeting client requirements, needs and expectations together with diligently incorporating internal guidelines, processes and procedure.

Clinton Marine Survey’s emphasis on providing a safe and healthy work environment for their employees has won them the international management system for work environment, ISO45001 certificate.


Furthermore, Clinton Marine Survey complies with environmental laws and emission regulations and is certified in ISO14001 for environmental management. To demonstrate their commitment to sustainability, they have also become ECO Vadis members.

“We are quality management system ISO9001 certified and are committed to live up to international standards. To ensure that we stay updated on the current market requirements we are members and certified in Achilles UDVB Qualification System, which is an independent external audit,” says Wikmar.

As their vessels specifically designed for working in both extreme shallow and extreme offshore depth environments, with hull mounted MBES and SBP systems, the company has enjoyed a long history of delivering complex geophysical projects with SSS, BCS, MAG, MBES and SBP.

Given that there is an ongoing push for autonomous in offshore wind projects, Clinton Marine Survey has made it its core markets. “We go for smart partly autonomous low carbon footprint solutions which still can deliver quality, resolution and control of safety. To have our client returning to us after our assignments with the ultimate goal of being recommended by them to our other clients,” says Wikmar. In one instance, they completed work on an offshore windfarm in just 100 days instead of the planned 200, while providing the client a smart cost-effective solution with higher resolution. “Our client asked us how we can keep doing this into the future and our answer is that we are at the forefront and never give up with a set of common goals and continue to push the boundaries forward,” asserts Wikmar.

Technology and services aside, the company is employee-first. They believe that with health comes results and that ongoing development is the key to success. The team constantly challenges itself to succeed together and push boundaries with one common goal. As a future KPI, Clinton Marine Survey ‘s vessels will be run on HVO100 which will bring down their already low CO2 consumption by more than 85 percent; this will be a game changer in the market and set a new standard for the industry. “We love what we do and always make sure to complete our assignments with a passion for the ocean and respect for the sea. Our ambition is to continuously minimize the carbon footprint of our operations while maintaining a high quality of our deliveries. We want to be chosen by our clients based on our commitment and we aim to deliver state of the art solutions which are custom made based on the requirements of each individual assignment,” concludes Wikmar.