Smart Port Challenge (SPC) is an annual innovation competition to find the best ideas and solutions from technology start-ups to address challenges, or innovation opportunities, put forth by maritime corporates in Singapore.

This year’s Smart Port Challenge offers 15 innovation opportunities from the 16 maritime corporates.

As part of SPC2022, The Association of Singapore Marine Industries (ASMI), representing about 250 companies, is looking for a solution to reduce or eliminate the risks human workers faced during cleaning of tanks and cargo holds.

OSM Maritime is looking for a solution that could facilitate cargo hold cleaning in a safe and efficient manner. The solution should be easily deployed by crew onboard vessels during voyage and allow for effective cleaning of cargo holds. This typically requires reaching heights of over 15m, and handling water jets with chemicals and cleaning solutions.

The solution should also be adaptable to handle different standards of cleanliness requirements depending on the nature of the previous and subsequent cargo (e.g. normal clean / grain clean / hospital clean). In addition, as the cleaning is often done during voyage, the proposed solution would have to withstand the stability conditions of the vessel at sea.

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