Details and application guidelines for the 2018 AAPA Harbors and Navigation Awards will be posted mid-June.
The AAPA Harbors and Navigation Awards recognize outstanding projects conducted at public port authorities and partnership projects between ports and federal agency partners and service providers. These projects will be evaluated on the wide range of impacts that port authority projects have not only to the immediate port community but to the constituent community served by the port.
Award Categories:
Note: Because of the exemplary nature of its intended recipients, each award category will not necessarily be presented every year. The evaluation committee also reserves the right to (sparingly) recognize more than one submission in each category as a winning entry (which would be acknowledged as co-recipients) or utilize any or all of the following award subcategories – Award of Excellence – Award of Merit – Honorable Mention, within each category. The evaluators also, at their discretion, may use the following measures to consider a winning entry: size, scale and/or scope of the individual submission.
Types of projects that would be of specific interest:
Harbor, navigation and/or seaport planning or development project that addresses dredging, sediment management, waterside port infrastructure development, navigation and operations technologies, demand and supply chain logistics, vessel traffic management, improving operational efficiencies in berths and federal channels.
Nine proposed general award criteria, in no particular order, are used to evaluate the entries in the competition:
For more information on the Harbors and Navigation Awards contact Jim Walker, Director of Navigation Policy and Legislation, at 703-706-4715 or e-mail: jwalker@aapa-ports.org.