- The Singapore Maritime Foundation (SMF) announced the winning teams of the MaritimeONE Digital Challenge 2023.
- Students from Nanyang Technological University and Singapore Management University seize victory as champions.
- Organized by SMF in collaboration with industry partners, the annual case competition invites students from Singapore’s universities and polytechnics to respond to challenge statements.
This year’s edition is sponsored by leading multinationals Eastern Pacific Shipping, IMC Shipping and Pacific International Lines, sources SMF.
Diverse Disciplines
From an initial 190 students across 60 registered teams, the nine finalist teams comprise students coming from a diverse range of disciplines including maritime studies, supply chain management, business, economics, computer science, and data analytics. The following are the winners of the MDC 2023:
| COMPANY | CHALLENGE SYNOPSIS | WINNING TEAMS |
| Eastern Pacific Shipping
| To devise novel concepts towards an emissions digital tool that allows shipping organizations to visualize and compare vessel emissions across fleet and industry, forecast voyage emissions based on port-to-port data, account for various fuel types and obtain a measure of fuel selection cost. | Champion Team: NE Institution: Singapore Management University
1st Runner-up Team: 2KGoals Institution: Nanyang Technological University
2nd Runner-up Team: Confusion Matrix Institution: National University of Singapore
Merit Prizes Team: CSMS Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Team: Green Marine Institution: National University of Singapore |
| IMC Shipping | To model a solution that delivers a system which optimizes the rotation of ships with the objective of minimizing emissions per tonne of cargo handled. | Champion Team: MarinaBytes Institution: Nanyang Technological University
1st Runner-up Team: Vessel404 Institution: National University of Singapore
2nd Runner-up Team: SOECO Institution: Nanyang Technological University Merit Prizes Team: Merry Time, Want? Institution: National University of Singapore, Singapore Management University
Team: Halp Institution: Singapore Management University |
| Pacific International Lines | To propose a digital smart tool for the liner shipping business that streamlines and optimizes the entire tender process for customers — enhancing efficiency, transparency, and cost-effectiveness while maintaining security and confidentiality. | Champion Team: GRQ Institution: Singapore Management University
1st Runner-up Team: Tenderisers Institution: Singapore University of Social Sciences
2nd Runner-up Team: Caviato Institution: National University of Singapore
Merit Prizes Team: Meeparino Institution: National University of Singapore
Team: YWWY Institution: Nanyang Technological University |
“There is significant potential to harness technology to spur the digitalisation and decarbonisation of maritime. I am heartened to see that the challenge statements crafted by the sponsor companies energized and engaged the diverse pool of talent — of whom a quarter are majoring in a technology-related discipline — that responded to the MaritimeONE Digital Challenge. I thank our industry sponsors Eastern Pacific Shipping, IMC Shipping and Pacific International Lines for mentoring our youths and for giving them a glimpse of exciting opportunities in the sector,” said Mr. Hor Weng Yew, Chairman of the Singapore Maritime Foundation.
“As a leading tonnage provider, EPS is keen to explore new ideas and technologies that support our decarbonisation initiatives. The MaritimeONE Digital Challenge has certainly presented exciting opportunities to work with these students to develop novel concepts and digital tools, and we have been very encouraged by their creativity, motivation and hard work. These talents, who will make up our future workforce, will certainly help drive digitalisation to greater heights in the industry’s decarbonisation journey,” said Mr. Pavlos Karagiannidis, Fleet Optimisation Manager, Eastern Pacific Shipping.
“We are very impressed with how the students answered our complex challenge statement with creativity, innovation, and collaboration. The winning teams demonstrated a keen understanding of the critical role that AI and technology play in reducing carbon emissions and driving sustainability. They employed various inventive strategies and efforts to consider the interests of all stakeholders in order to create concepts and models that have potential to be adopted and sustained. We thank the Singapore Maritime Foundation for the opportunity to engage and mentor these young talent, and we look forward to seeing how this next generation can inspire and bring about a sea of change to decarbonisation in the maritime industry,” said Capt. Venkatesh Dutt, Head of Operations, IMC Shipping.
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Source: SMF
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