Safe Affordable Ferry Design Competition
9th Annual International Student Design Competition
Team Nawasena ITS won the competition for their ferry Lakshmi. Click here to read about the winning vessel and team in the Ship and Boat International Sept/Oct 2022 issue.
8th Annual International Student Design Competition
COVID makes
the design of an Amazon River ferry yet more pressing
The 2020-2021 Design Competition for a Safe Affordable Ferry focus is on designing a Ro-Pax ferry to make stops between Manaus and Tefe on the Amazon River in Brazil.
Click here for the winners.
7th Annual International Student Design Competition
The 2019-2020 Design Competition for a Safe Affordable Ferry 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, supplementing the new and fairly successful Globology passenger-only ferry service, Waterbus East Africa.
Opening Presentation: WFSA Board Member Captain Nurur Rahman. Click here for the video.
First Place: Hochschule Bremen, City University of Applied Sciences, Germany. Click here for the video presentation.
Second Place: Universität Rostak, Germany. Click here for the video presentation. Click here for the PowerPoint slides (in PDF).
Third Place: Singapore Institute of Technology and Newcastle University. Click here for the video presentation. Click here for the PowerPoint slides (in PDF format).
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. Third Place, Gustavo Gomez Hernandez, Veracruz University, Mexico; Third Place, Li Qian Wen, Shanghai Maritime University. Second Place, Sasmita Adi Nugraha, Surabaya ITS, Surabaya Indonesia. Roberta Weisbrod, Executive Director, WFSA.
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