Singapore: SMF announces winning teams of MaritimeONE Digital Challenge 2023

The Singapore Maritime Foundation (SMF) on Thursday (9 November) announced the winning teams of the MaritimeONE Digital Challenge 2023 at an awards ceremony.

Organised by SMF in collaboration with industry partners, the annual case competition invites students from Singapore’s universities and polytechnics to respond to challenge statements at the intersection of maritime and technology. This year’s edition is sponsored by leading multinationals Eastern Pacific Shipping, IMC Shipping and Pacific International Lines.

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 winners were Team NE who represented Singapore Management University, Team GRQ who represented Singapore Management University and Team MarinaBytes who represented Nanyang Technological University. 

Eastern Pacific Shipping’s challenge statement, tasked to Team NE, was to devise novel concepts towards an emissions digital tool that allows shipping organisations to visualise and compare vessel emissions across fleet and industry, forecast voyage emissions based on port-to-port data, account for various bunker fuel types and obtain a measure of fuel selection cost.

Brandon Sia, a Year 3 business management student from the Singapore Management University, and team leader of Team NE, champion for Eastern Pacific Shipping’s challenge statement, said: “Through our internship experiences, we understand the struggles and the importance of visualising carbon emissions in an automated and reliable manner. Having an emissions dashboard as a tracking system allows a company to know it’s on the right track of decarbonisation by telling the ‘how’s and ‘why’s’ to decarbonise.”

“With tightening regulations, emissions reporting must be more frequent and accurate, such that the industry can work on a concrete database to decarbonise efficiently. The EPS Challenge strikes the best balance for the skillsets of our team — with members with maritime knowledge, and others with data science skills; such that we synergise well to come up with a quality digital tool.”

Note: The full challenge synopsis of each team and full statement by SMF can be read here.

Photo credit: Singapore Maritime Foundation
Published: 10 November, 2023