Given the nature of shipping and its global network, technology in the space has to meet several vital criteria; it must be far-reaching and accessible all over the planet, it must be standardised yet simultaneously agile to deal with different systems, it must also, simple as it sounds, work effectively. Technology is an amazing thing, yet when solutions are overly complex or unintuitive, they can become drains on efficiency rather than boosts. This award recognises the company that has solved each of these issues.
The nominees are: