About the award

The 2023 Maritime Safety Award was presented to the University College London Marine Research Group, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember, the University of Pattimura, and Orela Shipyard in recognition of their improvement in maritime safety through the development of the KORA KORA mobile phone application, which enables fishers to assess their vessel’s stability both in port and while underway.

 The WFSA is a not-for-profit organization, actively involved in solving the problem of passenger ferry safety, particularly in developing countries. The list of projects undertaken indicates considerable effort in improving maritime safety. 

Mooring rope failures constitute a significant cause of numerous maritime safety incidents, casualties, and personal injuries, including death to crew members and mooring personnel. The Smart Ropes range involves real-time load measurement units embedded in each mooring rope, feeding information wirelessly to a monitoring system on the ship’s bridge.

Innovative float-free buoyant device that stores all essential marine safety equipment.

Ship Flooding Containment System

The Emergency Response Group and the Electrical and Controls Team of ASC Shipbuilding successfully developed and introduced an integrated fire detection and broadcasting system to improve the safety of both the workforce and the ship during construction. The system they developed effectively met the requirements of both old and new construction facilities, and modern production techniques.

Professor Wang’s work has encompassed the development of novel and improved design, construction and operational procedures of ships and maritime engineering systems; the development of standards and codes of practice in maritime management, regulation, legislation; extensive research and publications in the field of maritime safety; education and training in maritime safety issues

To enhance the maritime safety through organisational and human factors during design and operation of ships.

Barry Deakin’s work is notable because it encompasses both original theoretical research and the identification of measures that will enable the results to be put into practice. By working in a pragmatic way with key stakeholders he has ensured that his work has made a lasting and significant contribution to the safety of small craft

Developed Code for hovercrafts

They received the award for their work in improving on board marine incident management by the development and introduction of an integrated Safety Command Centre

The Safety Command Centre provides the space where all parties can come together, damage assessments can be made, videos from the scene can be displayed, communications with shore side are available, drawings can be brought up, navigation information and calculation, machinery overview, and much more. The space is designed as a true incident command centre that can be used from the initiation to the time the ship makes it back to port.

Whilst it is always to be hoped that the it will never be used for its intended purpose, the integrated Safety Command Centre introduced by Royal Caribbean Cruise Limited has the potential to make a significant contribution to improving maritime safety, should that need ever occur.

Awarded in recognition of his perseverance and professionalism in initiating and driving through changes to IMO regulations, leading to a significant improvement in tanker safety.

Awarded in recognition of his exemplary technological contribution to the improvement of safety in the maritime environment, in a career spanning over forty years.

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Awarded in recognition of their innovative work in ensuring and improving the safety of its lifeboats. Through this innovation, the Department provides for the safety of not only their volunteer crews, but also that of the many people rescued each year by the Institution.

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