Ocean Technologies Group CEO Manish Singh has been awarded the Smart4Sea Personality Award which was presented to him following Safety4Sea’s 2022 Smart4Sea Virtual Forum that took place on 23^rd February 2022.

The Forum explored industry collaboration regarding decarbonisation, connectivity and crew welfare including ongoing issues related to COVID-19.

The award is in recognition of the growing influence of OTG and the contribution Manish has made in furthering smarter shipping throughout his career.

During his acceptance speech Manish recognised the acceleration of technology adoption over the pandemic:

“It has been a privilege to serve the industry at a time when it is entering a period of unprecedented change. Over the years we have seen the industry respond, improvise and prevail over the challenges that covid and the associated disruptions have thrown at us. We have made progress leaps and bounds in terms of creating future-ready digital ecosystems that allow our shore based and sea going colleagues to work despite the disruptions that we are now finding commonplace.”

He also used his speech to reflect on the upcoming challenge of decarbonisation, stating:

“We, as an industry, are just about to enter a phase of the next two to three years within which we have got to start embracing new fuels new technologies and new operating models if we have any chance of making headway to our 2030 and then on to the 2050 decarbonisation targets that we have ahead of ourselves as an industry.”