Maritime Award of the Americas Recipients
2024
Awarded Best Practices 2024 (10th Edition)
- Category Technological Transformation
- Winner: Petrobras Transporte S.A. (Transpetro) - Brazil
- Category Cybersecurity in Ports and Terminals
- Winner: Portonave S.A. Terminais Portuários de Navegantes - Brazil
- Category Green Port Operations and Sustainable Management
- Winner: Compañía de Puertos Asociados S.A. (COMPAS) - Colombia
- Category Women Empowerment and Equality
- Winner: APM Terminals Moín, Limón - Costa Rica
- Category Port Security and Risk Management
- Winner: Kingston Wharves Limited - Jamaica
- Winner: Valerie Campbell - Jamaica
Winning Entries
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Outstanding Woman
2023
Awarded Best Practices 2023 (9th Edition)
- Category Competitive Digitalization
- Winner: Transportadora Callao S.A. - Peru
- Category Cybersecurity in Ports and/or Terminals
- Winner: Barbados Port Inc. – Barbados & HudsonAnalytix – United States of America
- Category Green Port Operations and Sustainable Management
- Winner: Administración del Sistema Portuario Nacional Ensenada, S.A. de C.V. – Mexico
- Honorable Mention: RightShip - United States of America
- Category Empowerment and Equality
- Winner: Portonave S/A - Terminais Portuários de Navegantes - Brazil
- Winner: Mervel Kotzebue-Fleur - Suriname
- Honorable Mention: Carla Monrabal - Argentina
Winning Entries
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Outstanding Woman
2022
Awarded Best Practices 2022 (8th Edition)
- Category Competitive Digitalization
- Winner: Terminal Internacional del Sur S.A – Concesión del Terminal Portuario de Matarani (TISUR) - Peru
- Category Cybersecurity in Ports and/or Terminals
- Winner: Administración del Sistema Portuario Nacional Manzanillo, S.A. de C.V. (ASIPONA) - Mexico
- Category Green Port Operations and Sustainable Management
- Winner: Porto do Açu Operações S.A. – Brazil
- Category Empowerment and Equality
- Winner: Salaverry Terminal Internacional S.A. - Peru
- Honrable Mention: Manzanillo International Terminal S.A. - Panama
- Winner: Elvia Bustavino, Secretary General - Panama
- Honorable Mention: Audrey McNeil, ISPS Code Compliance Coordinator- Jamaica
Winning Entries
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Outstanding Woman
2021
Awarded Best Practices 2021 (7th Edition)
- Port-City Relation
- Winner: Terminal Internacional del Sur (TISUR) - Peru
- Honorable Mention: APM Terminals Callao - Peru
- Disaster Risk Management in Ports and/or Terminals
- Winner: Terminal Portuario de Manta (TPM) - Ecuador
- Honrable Mention: T&T Salvage - USA
- Digitalization, automation, and technological transformation
- Winner: Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ) – Jamaica
- Winner: Captain Ana Laura Lopez Bautista, General Coordinator of Ports and Merchant Marine, Secretary of the Navy - Mexico
- Honorable Mention: Mariela Gutarra Ramos, Head of the Information Technology Office, National Port Authority - Peru
Winning Entries
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Outstanding Woman
2019
Awarded Best Practices 2019 (Sixth Edition)
- Social Responsibility
- Puerto Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Port-City Relation
- COMPAS, Colombia
- Honorable Mention: PROCIP, Costa Rica
- Green Port Operations in Ports and/or Terminals
- Puerto Bahía, Colombia
- Disaster Risk Management in Ports and/or Terminals
- Tecon Río Grande, Brazil
- Honrable Mention: Autoridad Nacional Portuaria del Peru
- Silvina Urrega, General Manager, Security and Environmental Operations, Puerto Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Orrieta Gajate, General Manager, Terminales Portuarios Peruanos SAC, Peru
- Honorable Mention: Mitze Ríos, General Manager, Centro Comunitario Puerto Ventanas, Chile
2018
Awarded Best Practices 2018 (Fifth Edition)
- Green Operations in Ports and/or Terminals
- Tecon Salvador, Brazil
- Community Outreach and Port-City Relation
- Puerto Ventanas, Chile
- Social Responsibility
- Fundación Puerto Industrial AGUADULCE Buenaventura y Compas, Colombia
Maritime Award of the Americas: Outstanding Women in the Maritime and Port Sectors 2018 (Third Edition)
- Claudia Sanchez, General Director of Ports, SCT, Mexico
- Honorable Mention: Rita Violeta Myrie Barnes, General Manager Junta e Administración Portuaria y de Desarrollo Económico de la Vertiente Atlántica (JAPDEVA), Costa Rica
2017
Awarded Best Practices 2017 (Fourth Edition)
Categories:
- Environmental Waste Management
- Central American Port Operator (OPC), Honduras
- Green Operations in Port and/or Terminals
- Puerto Ventanas, Chile
- Public Outreach and Environmental Awareness
- Pluspetrol, Peru
- Disaster Mitigation and Management in Ports and/or Terminals
- The Salvage, Fire, and Environmental Protection Service (SERS), Argentine Naval Prefecture
- Dr. Guimara Tuñón Guerra, General Director of Ports and Auxiliary Maritime Industries of the Panama Maritime Authority
- Lludelis Espinal Benzant, President and co-founder of E&M International Consulting
2016
Awarded Best Practices 2016 (Third Edition)
Categories:
- Environmental Waste Management in Cruise Lines
- Environmental Waste Management in Ports
- Gender Equality Initiatives in Ports
- Port Safety and Security Management
Categories:
- Logistics, Innovation, and Competitiveness
- Beverley Williamson, Senior Vice-President, Business Management and Special Projects, Port Authority of Jamaica
- Consuelo Cánaves Martínez, General Manager, Muellaje Central S.A, Puerto Central S.A, Chile
- Sustainable Port Management and Environmental Protection
- Mónica Naso Fregueiro, President Environmental Management of the Port of Montevideo, Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture, and Fisheries, Uruguay
- Port Protection and Security
- Cynthia Hudson, CEO, HudsonAnalytix Inc., United States of America
- Public Policy, Legislation, and Regulation
- Helen Brohl, Executive Director, US Committee on Marine Transportation System, US Department of Transportation, United States of America
- Carrol Pickersgill, Senior Vice-President, Legal, Regulatory and Corporate Affairs, Port Authority of Jamaica
- Corporate Social Responsibility and Gender Equality
- Hidelene Lobato Bahia, Long Distance Captain, Transpetro-Petrobras Transport S.A., Brazil
- Tourism, Ship Services, and Navigation Safety
- Nury Lizbeth Sánchez Hernández, Dock Manager, Auxiliary Services, Petroamerica Terminal S.A (PATSA), Panama