Out of thirty submitted projects the international jury has selected seven nominees for the first ESPO Award on Societal Integration of Ports. The port of Rotterdam is one of the nominees.
“The quality of the applications received was outstanding,” said John Richardson, chairman of the jury and former Head of the European Commission’s Maritime Task Force. “This is very encouraging and shows that more and more port authorities care about social integration of their ports. The great diversity of projects, however, made our work extremely challenging and took us through an intensive process of deliberation.”
Nominees
The jury came to the conclusion that the submissions of the ports of Algeciras, Genoa, Ghent, Gijón, Rotterdam, Stockholm and Turku made the most favourable impression and were therefore selected for the shortlist.
“We will now be putting a number of precise questions to these ports so that we can pass a final judgment,” concluded John Richardson. The winner will be announced on 4 November during an evening ceremony at the Brussels’ Town Hall. The Award itself is designed by the Belgian artist François Schuiten.
Jury
Next to John Richardson, jury members are Rinio Bruttomesso (Director, International Centre Cities on Water), Giuliano Gallanti (Former Chairman, ESPO), Michael Grey (Former Editor-in-Chief, Lloyd’s List), Olivier Lemaire (Director, International Association Cities and Ports), Nigel Rowe (Chairman, Sail Training International), Jacques van der Tak (Mayor, Community of Westland) and Eric Van Hooydonk (Professor of Maritime Law, University of Antwerp).
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