Posted on August 25, 2016
IHS Markit, a world leader in critical information, analysts and solutions, today announced the finalists for the inaugural Dredging and Port Construction (DPC) Innovation Awards 2016, organized by IHS Dredging and Port Construction magazine.
The DPC Innovation Awards recognizes and celebrates outstanding innovation and technological contributions made by the dredging and port construction industry. Winners from each category shortlist will be chosen by an expert panel of judges and announced at the awards dinner ceremony held at Grosvenor Square Hotel in Mayfair, London, UK, on 10November 2016.
Lisa Maher, DPC senior editor, said: “We are delighted to have such a great response to our first Dredging and Port Construction Innovation Awards. The successful finalists demonstrate the diversity of innovation in this sector and why it underpins the maritime world, from commercial shipping to environmental benefit and from beach renewal to port expansions. The judging panel will have its work cut out to judge between all these high quality candidates.”
The finalists for the DPC Awards 2016 are as follows:
Green Ports/Terminals
- Port of Long Beach, Green Port Policy
- Port of Prince Rupert, Green Wave Program
- Port of Valencia, Energy Saving Initiatives
- DP World, London Gateway
Innovation in Dredger Design
- Royal Boskalis, Magnor
- Royal Boskalis, Ndeavor & Ndurance
- DEME & Royal IHC, World’s first LNG-powered TSHDs
- DSC, North Carolina Department of Transportation Fully Customized Cutter Suction Dredge
Innovation in Dredging Equipment
- Royal Boskalis, The Mooring Actuator
- QPS, QPS QIMERA
- Valeport, SWiFT SVP
- Royal IHC, Clay Draghead – Mighty Dragon
- Wärtsilä Corporation, New generation “Antigoon” class dredger “Scheldt River”
- Wärtsilä Corporation, Sternguard In-water Serviceable Seal
- Royal IHC, The Plumigator | airless overflow
- Royal IHC, Improved dredge pump
- DEME, Application of a two speed propulsion gearbox with combinator-mode thrust
- Cable Arm, Environmental Swing Arms Hydraulic Bucket
Innovation in Port Design & Construction
- Port of Vancouver USA, West Vancouver Freight Access – Trench Project
- Port Miami, Port Miami Deep Dredge
- DP World, London Gateway
Innovation in Port Equipment
- Machinefabriek L. Straatman B.V., Solar Systems
- Konecranes, BOXHUNTER
- Cavotec and Jan De Nul, Brisbane Airport Corporation
- Damen, InvaSave
- Valeport, SWiFT SVP
Innovation in Project Design – Inland Dredging
- Ronald Waterman, Aquapuncture for Inland Waterways
- DRAGFLOW, Amphibious Dredges for Rio Magdalena
- Jan de Nul, Engineered Sediments for the Construction of Dykes
- Innovation in Project Design – Open Water/Oblique Coastal Dredging
- Jan de Nul, Design and construction of the Sunfish and the Moonfish
- Port Miami, Port Miami Deep Dredge
Innovation in Support Vessels
- HR Wallingford Modelling of sediment plume and contaminants
- Jan de Nul, Isaac Newton
- Royal Boskalis, Ndeavor & Ndurance
Innovative Services to Dredging
- IADC, Ecosystem Services: Towards Integrated Marine Infrastructure Project Assessments
- Jan de Nul, CPEM, soil and sediment treatment centre in France.
- Jan de Nul, in-house Fall Pipe Vessel Simulator
- HR Wallingford, Noise modelling research project
- HR Wallingford, Modelling of sediment plume and contaminants
Working/Building with Nature Award
- DHI, Hvide Sande Harbour, Denmark
- Royal Boskalis, Room for the river project Noordwaard
- Port Everglades, The Port Everglades Upland Mangrove Enhancement
- DP World, London Gateway
- Netics, Bird islands made of dredged sediments
- Ellicott Dredgers, Prime Hook Nature Reserve
New Environments Award
- Royal IHC, Open Permanent magnet motor for use in deep sea
- HR Wallingford, Don Diego underwater phosphate mining
- Port Productivity Awards – Ports
- Bremerhaven
- Port of Antwerp
- Port of Algeciras Bay
- Port of Hamburg
Port Productivity Awards – Terminals
- Antwerp International Terminal
- HHLA Container Terminal Altenwerder (CTA)
- NTB North Sea Terminal Bremerhaven
- Euromax Terminal Rotterdam – ECT
The IHS Markit DPC Innovation Awards 2016 is sponsored by Boskalis Dredging & Marine Experts, DEME Dredging Environmental & Marine Engineering and Rohde Nielsen.
Source: IHS Markit
