Coming up later this week: the Maritime Awards Gala 2011. On Friday, SWZonline will send out a special newsletter announcing the winners, so https://www.swzonline.nl/nieuwsbrief/[sign up] now. In this news item a recap of all the nominees.

And the nominees are (in alphabetical order):

HISWA Excellence Award

– Yacht designer Dick Boon (winner*)

*HISWA has already announced the winner.

HME Maritime Innovation Award Nominees

– IHC Merwede – IHC Spudguard
– NewThex Ned BV – NEXT-closing system
– Ulstein Sea of Solutions – SOC 5000

KNVTS Ship of the Year Award Nominees

– Amulet
– Nemo H2
– Oleg Strashnov

VNSI Timmersprijs Nominees

– Bart van Oers – Packing: a quick way to generate feasible ship designs
– Mauk Tilanus – Design tool to optimise floating offshore wind turbines

KVNR Shipping Award Nominees

– Dockwise – Heavy lift vessel Dockwise Vanguard
– Sima Charters – Multi-purpose tenders
– Stichting ProSea – New compulsory IMO-course on environmental awareness
– Tideway Offshore Contractors – Fallpipe and offshore multi-purpose vessel Flintstone