Safe Affordable Ferry Design Competition
11th Annual International Student Design Competition
The goal of the Worldwide Ferry Safety Association is to reduce ferry fatalities. The objective of the International Student Design competition is to reduce ferry fatalities by designing safe affordable vessels.
For the past ten years, awards of $10,000 annually have been made to student teams, with the top prize each year being $5000. An impressive roster of internationally recognized maritime professionals act as judges. Awardees have been recognized at international maritime conferences and through media reports.
In the preceding years' competitions, teams were asked to design:
- a passenger ferry for the Bangladesh river system
- an inter-island RoPax for Papua New Guinea
- an inter-island RoPax for Indonesia
- a passenger ferry for Bangkok
- a passenger ferry for the Singapore Straits between Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore
- a passenger ferry for the Pasig River of Manila
- a RoPax for the Winam Gulf region of Lake Victoria in Kenya
- a RoPax for the Amazon River in Brazil
- a RoPax for the Brahmaputra River in Assam, India
- an electric ferry for the Pasig River of Manila.
The 2023-2024 Design Competition for a Safe Affordable Ferry will be focused on designing a RoPax ferry for the Niger River in Nigeria.
Student teams that register between now and May 1, 2024, will be provided with the Terms of Reference. Design submissions are due on Thursday, May 30, 2024 by 5 PM ET.
For questions, contact Dr. Roberta Weisbrod, executive director of the World wide Ferry Safety Association (WFSA), at ferrysafety -@- gmail.com.
Please register at https://ferry-safety.squarespace.com/registration.
Note this year we will be accepting only one design submission per school, although there may be multiple registrations. There is no limitation on the size of the team.
Initial registration should be by the team captain and provide captain’s name, academic institution, address, phone number and email address; faculty advisor, name, address, phone number and email address; and other team members' names and email addresses. (Team members may be modified by time of submission of design.) Teams will be provided with a registration number and will receive the detailed Terms of Reference for the vessel to be designed.
9th Annual International Student Design Competition
Team Nawasena ITS won the competition for their ferry Lakshmi. Click here to read about the winning vessel and team in the Ship and Boat International Sept/Oct 2022 issue.
8th Annual International Student Design Competition
COVID makes
the design of an Amazon River ferry yet more pressing
The 2020-2021 Design Competition for a Safe Affordable Ferry focus is on designing a Ro-Pax ferry to make stops between Manaus and Tefe on the Amazon River in Brazil.
Click here for the winners.
7th Annual International Student Design Competition
The 2019-2020 Design Competition for a Safe Affordable Ferry focused on designing a Ro-Pax ferry for the Winam Gulf region of Lake Victoria in Kenya. The service will connect the newly revived Port of Kisumu and the coastal terminal at Mbita and other ports, supplementing the new and fairly successful Globology passenger-only ferry service, Waterbus East Africa.
Opening Presentation: WFSA Board Member Captain Nurur Rahman. Click here for the video.
First Place: Hochschule Bremen, City University of Applied Sciences, Germany. Click here for the video presentation.
Second Place: Universität Rostak, Germany. Click here for the video presentation. Click here for the PowerPoint slides (in PDF).
Third Place: Singapore Institute of Technology and Newcastle University. Click here for the video presentation. Click here for the PowerPoint slides (in PDF format).
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