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SRT MARINE SYSTEMS PLC ( AIM : SRT ) ( " SRT " or the " Company " ) Trading update SRT Marine Systems PLC ( SRT ) , a global provider of maritime surveillance , monitoring and management systems , today announces a trading update for the year ended 31 March 2021 . The Company expects to report revenues of approximately £ 8.2 million * and loss before tax of £ 5.8 million * with gross cash as at 31 March 2021 of £ 5.3 million * . During the period , existing system contract customers made cash payments of £ 13 million per agreed project payment schedules , with a further £ 5.7 million due in the coming year . However , because of Covid lockdown related implementation delays , no invoice milestones were completed and thus no revenues recognised during the year . A fixed one - year CBILS support loan of £ 2.5 million from the Company's bankers was drawn down in April 2020. Following a review of detailed information on the pending new system contracts the renewal of this facility was agreed by the bank in March 2021 with repayments to be made on a quarterly basis commencing in July 2021 through to April 2023 . Given the Covid environment , the transceivers business performed robustly , achieving marginally higher revenues ( + 1 % ) on the previous year and stable gross profit margins . New system contracts that had been expected to commence during the year and contribute significant revenues were delayed due to the extended Covid lockdowns and are now expected during the new financial year . In April 2020 we advised that of our pipeline of validated new system opportunities included three in the Middle East region worth approximately £ 75 million that were expected to commence within a few months . However , the unexpected length and frequency of Covid lockdowns has delayed these into the new financial year . During the year four new system opportunities in Asia worth approximately £ 50 million have developed more rapidly than expected and are now pending their contract processing upon relaxing of Covid restrictions and normalisation of the government's contracting procedures . As of this statement , based upon customer guidance , we expect three of the Asian opportunities and one of the Middle East opportunities , with an aggregate value of approximately £ 71 million to commence during the first half , a further one in Asia worth approximately £ 14 million at the beginning of the second half , with the other two Middle East contracts , with an aggregate value of approximately £ 40 million , to commence later in the second half . The implementation and therefore revenue profile of each project differs , ranging from 9 months to 24 months to complete and therefore the revenues associated from these projects will be spread over a 24 calendar month period against delivered milestones . Operationally the Company successfully transitioned to a new Covid safe operating model which we intend will remain largely in place due to several unexpected efficiencies and advantages of this modus operandi that have become apparent . Activities such as transceiver manufacturing , logistics , and product development have continued as normal and in some cases such as product development have accelerated . During the year significant new functionality was added to our GeoVS maritime surveillance platform , and the development of a strategic new transceiver product commenced which we expect to be a significant revenue driver from the end of 2022 upon its completion . The forced delay in new and existing system contracts , whilst frustrating , has enabled our systems delivery team , in country partners and customers to substantially restructure and refine our systems implementation model . We are now able to pre - build and configure many of the system modules in