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The Shipping Times
Sep 29, 2000

PSA, S'pore Poly get maritime awards

[SINGAPORE] PSA Corporation was again named the best container terminal while the Singapore Polytechnic was honoured as the best seafarer training institute in Asia in the Lloyd's List Maritime Asia Awards last night. Indonesia's Soedarpo Sastrosatomo, chairman of the Samudera Group, was also inducted into Asia's Maritime Hall of Fame for a lifetime of achievement. He was honoured for building Samudera from a small Indonesian shipping line to one of the region's leading transportation and supply chain service groups. Others recognised included the Malaysian Port of Tanjung Pelepas, voted the best emerging container terminal, Maersk Sealand (Denmark), best mainline operator and UK P&I Club, best P&I Club. Speaking at the awards dinner Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology John Chen said Singapore remained the busiest port in the world with more than 141,000 ship calls last year totalling 877 million tons.