Safe Affordable Ferry Design Competition
7th Annual International Student Design Competition
The 2019-2020 Design Competition for a Safe Affordable Ferry will be focused on designing a Ro-Pax ferry for the Winam Gulf region of Lake Victoria in Kenya. The service will connect the newly revived Port of Kisumu and the coastal terminal at Mbita and other ports. This service would supplement the new and fairly successful Globology passenger-only ferry service, Waterbus East Africa.
Student teams that register between now and January 1, 2020, will be provided with the Terms of Reference for the competition. Entries are due on February 1, 2020. For questions kindly contact Dr. Roberta Weisbrod, executive director of the Worldwide Ferry Safety Association, at ferrysafety -at- gmail.com.
6th Annual International Student Design Competition
The 2018-2019 Design Competition for a Safe Affordable Ferry was focused on designing a passenger ferry for the Pasig River of Manila, Philippines as a linear urban ferry, an increasing popular type of ferry system in the progressively urbanizing world.

Winners of the 2018-2019 competition, from left to right: First Place, Vinoth Jawahar, Singapore Institute of Technology and Newcastle University, Singapore; Second Place, Gustavo Gomez Hernandez, Veracruz University, Mexico; Third Place, Yao Yo, Shanghai Maritime University; Third Place, Sasmita Adi Nugraha, Surabaya ITS, Surabaya Indonesia; and Roberta Weisbrod, Executive Director, WFSA.
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