Safe Affordable Ferry Design Competition, 2024
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 was focused on designing a RoPax ferry for the Niger River in Nigeria.
For questions, contact Dr. Roberta Weisbrod, executive director of the World wide Ferry Safety Association (WFSA), at ferrysafety -@- gmail.com. |