The Ocean Solutions Award focus on trailblazing ideas, products, and concepts conceived to address some of the most pressing challenges facing the maritime and ocean industries.
Deadline for nomination is Friday 28 February 2025
Ocean Solutions Award
The award showcases companies and individuals working to address ocean challenges and deliver lasting benefits for the maritime and ocean industries. The award has been deliberately conceived to welcome entrants spanning a spectrum as wide as the oceans themselves, with services, designs, concepts and equipment all competing for the final prize. Participants must prove their entry is either currently available or near commercialisation, ensuring the award goes to a tangible solution capable of delivering positive industry impact.
Qualifying criteria:
- Originality of the service, design, concept or equipment item
- Impact with regard to either ocean sustainability, logistics, or ship operation
- Addressing current or anticipated challenges for the industry
- Expected benefit for the industry generally, and to users/customers specifically
- Applying best practices or ideas from other industries or developing practices that other industries could benefit from
The jury consist of dedicated professionals representing a diversity of segments and geography.
The jury chairman is Malcolm Latarche, an industry expert and freelance maritime journalist, who has led this jury since 2013.
The Ocean Solutions Award will be handed out at Nor-Shipping’s Ocean Leadership Conference on 3 June.
JURY
Ocean Solution Award
Jury chairman
SINTEF Ocean
Blue-C
Norwegian Maritime Authority
DNB
DNV
Nor-Shipping
Norwegian Electric Systems
ShipInsight
Journal of Commerce
InterManager
