KBS Maritime provides a competitive and agile delivery vehicle, committed to working with Customers and industry partners to support the delivery of operational outputs.
The Navy relies on our team to maintain critical assets and systems, deliver operational services such as Heavy Lifting and provide Alongside Services support to the Portsmouth Flotilla. On average, this involves 700 ship movements a year, from a single ship movement to the deployment of the Carrier Strike Group. Feedback from our teams informs the development of future programmes, ensuring that the Naval Base continues to evolve – to be more efficient and reliable. We work with the Navy and industry partners under a shared ‘Team Portsmouth’ ethos, committed to supporting how the Navy live, work, train and deploy from the Naval Base.
Our aim is to help Portsmouth Naval Base become the world’s best defence establishment, supporting delivery of Fleet outputs. We work as a joint Asset Management team alongside the Royal Navy to maintain and enable operational delivery through effective planning and investment.
We draw on experience from our commercial partners to ensure that the Naval Base benefits from best practice, innovation and emergent technologies. Above all, we ensure that the Naval Base is a safe place to live and work for the 12,000 people who enter the establishment each day.
Portsmouth Naval Base is the second busiest port in the United Kingdom and home of the Surface Fleet. With around 700 ship movements per year, maintaining delivery of the in-year infrastructure investment programme and planning for future years, is a real challenge. Our team works in partnership with the Royal Navy to de-conflict delivery of up to 300 projects per year. This ranges from routine life-cycle replacement projects through to the implementation of new systems. Through our project delivery partners and framework contract, we ensure that the Navy gets best value from their allocated funding and secure third-party funding for commercial projects.
We are celebrating the journeys and milestones of colleagues marking their KBS anniversaries. This month, hear from Jason Lamb, who is celebrating six years at KBS.
After more than 40 years of service, the tug berth pontoons in the Tidal Basin have been successfully replaced—marking a major step forward for safety, resilience and future readiness across the waterfront.
We are celebrating the journeys and milestones of colleagues marking their KBS anniversaries. This month, hear from Kelly Turner, who is celebrating four years at KBS.
A major roof replacement at the Telephone Exchange Building at HMNB Portsmouth is helping protect critical defence infrastructure while essential services remain fully operational. Delivered with the Royal Navy and UK MOD, the £1 million project combines specialist scaffolding, a temporary canopy and live-environment working to improve long-term resilience and reduce risk to this mission-critical facility.
Civil works are now underway at Portsmouth Naval Base on a significant infrastructure project being delivered by KBS Maritime on behalf of the Royal Navy, which will provide a new permanent tower crane to support Royal Navy operations.
Mechanical Design Manager, Kamran Mian on delivering a dynamic and vital solution at HMNB Portsmouth through the Removable Keel Blocks Project
KBS Maritime is proud to announce its new partnership with the RNVCC at HMS Excellent, becoming the first organisation ever to sponsor the unit.
We are celebrating the journeys and milestones of colleagues marking their KBS anniversaries. This month, hear from Ben Simpson‑Munro, who is celebrating two years at KBS.
KBS Maritime has begun a major programme of regeneration to 1 Basin and 6 Dock as part of a long‑term project designed to preserve the dock infrastructure
KBS Maritime has reached a major milestone major milestone in the £7 million Removable Keel Support project for Type 45 Dockings at Portsmouth Naval Base