Sponsor the Maritime UK Solent Awards 2024

Nominations for this Award are made by employers for apprentices or cadets who have made a positive impact on their organisation. This category is for all apprentices or cadets employed in the maritime sector, regardless of which apprenticeship or cadetship pathway they are following, and does not have to be a traditional marine or maritime framework.

This is an award for an individual or a business or organisation based in the Solent who has developed, tested or operated new technologies that have made (or have the potential to make) a significant contribution to a lower carbon Maritime sector.

This is an award for an organisation within the Solent’s maritime sector, that has demonstrated itself to be a changemaker in the realm of diversity. They will evidence an ethos that embraces diversity, through its operational, daily approach, its strategic direction, and its policies. This is your opportunity to showcase the work you are doing for a diverse workforce.

This award recognises those that have made a tangible contribution to meeting the future skills needs of the Solent’s maritime sector. The winner will be delivering pioneering staff development or educational course activity to help match available skills to the emerging and future requirements of the sector. Applicants may be businesses or education providers.

This is an award for a Solent-based maritime business or organisation, that is actively involved in international trade and who have significantly increased import/export activity or attracted Foreign Direct Investment over the past two years.

This award is open to maritime businesses based in the Solent that have over 250 employees. This is your opportunity to showcase how great your large business is and what you have achieved over the past few years. You may have grown rapidly, pivoted your operation to safeguard your future or explore an opportunity, invested in workforce development, improved sustainability, or secured key new contracts. Tell us your story. Applications that can strengthen their story with numbers (e.g. new job, turnover growth) will be favoured.

It is expected that applications will nominate an individual rather than self-apply. This will be awarded to an individual who has made a significant impact to the strength of the Solent Maritime Sector, leaving a legacy. For example, this may include one or more of the following: Supported young people and apprentices; Been an ambassador for the Solent’s maritime sector; shown leadership in the sector; been critical to the growth or a Solent-based maritime business; provided strong leadership to a maritime organisation; innovated; led new research that has moved knowledge forward.

This is an award for a port, marina, shipowner, or shipbuilder, who is wholly committed to moving their Solent-based operations towards zero emissions. In the past year, they will have taken action or have committed to a programme of activities that will deliver a reduction in carbon emissions.

This award is open to maritime businesses based in the Solent that have up to 50 employees. This is your opportunity to showcase how great your small business is and what you have achieved over the past few years. You may have grown rapidly, pivoted your operation to safeguard your future or explore an opportunity, invested in workforce development, improved sustainability, or secured key new contracts. Tell us your story. Applications that can strengthen their story with numbers (e.g. new job, turnover growth) will be favoured.

Applicants for this award will have started to trade no earlier than three years from the date of entry, will be ‘independently owned’, and are a maritime business, or in the supply chain, and based in the Solent. Applicants that can evidence rapid growth and / or innovation will be favoured.

The Sustainability Leadership category is open to individuals or organisations that can demonstrate the type of leadership that drives solutions for environmental, social and economic challenges in maritime. It recognises leadership as a process of influence and action and breaks down silos to combine efforts towards change and transformation.

This is an award for a maritime business or organisation who are leading the way in new technology that will be ‘game-changing’ in the maritime sector. This will be through embracing new technologies to create new products, processes or practises. Applications that can demonstrate the use of novel technologies to respond to industry challenges will be favoured.