Meet the Finalists: Clean Maritime Enabler Award
Over the coming days, Maritime UK will be profiling each of the finalists in this year’s Maritime UK Awards. Winners will be announced on 12 November in an event live streamed from Plymouth. Registration is open here.
As a sign of their commitment for enable a clean maritime sector, the Department for International Trade are proud to be sponsoring the first ever Clean Enabler Award, to be given out at the 2020 Maritime UK Awards.
The Clean Enabler Award is open to entries from businesses and organisations of any size and will be awarded to the organisation that can demonstrate that they are actively working to support green innovation across the sector, through financing and services.
The winner of the award will be announced in a virtual event live-streamed and broadcast from Plymouth, Britain’s Ocean City on Thursday 12 November from 5pm.
Graham Stuart, Minister for Export at the Department for International Trade said:
“As the first major economy to legislate for Net Zero and the host of the UN Climate Change Conference next year, the UK is firmly committed to supporting clean growth and green innovation.
“British maritime businesses are developing the green technologies which are transforming the maritime sector and decarbonising the world economy. That is why I am delighted to support Maritime UK’s Clean Enabler Award, which recognises the work of innovators in this field.”
Highly respected experts from a variety of businesses and government departments were involved in the judging panel for this year’s Maritime UK Awards, which celebrate the achievements of the UK’s maritime sector, which adds £46.1bn to the UK economy every year, and supports 1.1 million jobs.
Shortlisted for the 2020 Clean Maritime Enabler Award are Cromarty Firth Port, the Port of Tyne and Tanki.
The Port ofCromarty Firth is a port authority taking a leading role in offshore wind and in the UK’s transition from fossil fuels to a renewable energy future. It is a leading partner of Opportunity Cromarty Firth, an initiative bidding to create a Cromarty Firth Free Trade Zone post-Brexit so it’s main activities – renewables, oil and gas and decarbonisation programme and cruise – can continue to flourish. PoCF has played a key role in some of the country’s largest offshore wind projects, including SSE’s 588MW Beatrice and EDPR’s 950MW Moray East offshore windfarms and the 50MW Kincardine floating offshore wind project.
Port of Tyne is a deep-sea port handling cargo from across five continents, enabling £621 million in value to be added to the North East economy and supporting 12,000 jobs directly and indirectly. The economic impact of the Port’s cruise and ferry business adds £57 million to the local economy and 1,600 jobs. In 2019 the Port launched its Tyne 2050 strategy, committing to green innovation and sustainability – for commercial and internal operations. The Port’s Tyne 2050 strategy includes a commitment to becoming nationally recognised as a test bed for green innovation by 2025, fully carbon neutral by 2030 and an all-electric port by 2040.
Tanki have developed a sustainably sourced, affordable, two-ply, quality toilet tissue which disperses on impact with water: the world’s only toilet paper legally compliant to discharge at sea under current maritime law. Created to solve an engineering problem, Tanki’s product is manufactured without the use of plastic and will not block any non-conventional sewage treatment facility such from ship-board processing tanks, providing an environmental solution to the discharge of waste. Tanki is a partnership of like-minded individuals who joined forces determined to make a positive change with a new enterprise.
Harry Theochari, Chair of Maritime UK, said:
“We’re delighted to announce the finalists for the Maritime UK Awards 2020. Across all fourteen categories we can see some genuinely world-beating products, services, and operators. I’m particularly pleased to see some fantastic projects being showcased in the new Clean Maritime categories. Given the importance the sector places on getting to net zero, it is important that we celebrate the progress made on that journey and connect people together so that they can achieve more than on their own. These awards help do just that. The quality of entries this year is testament to the strength and commitment of our maritime sector to be world-class despite the most challenging of circumstances.”
Ben Murray, Director of Maritime UK, said:
“We were determined that these awards would go ahead, and in an ideal world would have been one of the first occasions at which colleagues from across the sector could come back together following COVID-19. With that not being possible due to new restrictions, we think it’s really important to celebrate the remarkable work that has been going on – in responding to COVID-19, and in spite of it – which sends a message of resilience and ambition.”
The 2020 Maritime UK Awards are hosted by Maritime UK South West and delivered by Plymouth City Council. Diamond Sponsors are the MLA College and the University of Plymouth.
Tickets to the live-streamed event are free and open to everyone. To register visit the official website.