PSA Singapore Wins Best Container Terminal Award & PSA China Secures Best Emerging Container Terminal Award

PSA has emerged a double winner at the Lloyd’s List Maritime Asia Awards when PSA Singapore secured the Best Container Terminal and PSA China secured Best Emerging Container Terminal award for Guangzhou Container Terminal.

The Lloyd's List Maritime Asia Awards are a unique annual event which honours the best in the Asian Maritime Industry. This year, the awards ceremony was held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Hong Kong on 4 November 2004. Lloyd's List Maritime Asia is recognised as a leading source of maritime and transport news and reports on Asia by senior executives in the region. Lloyd's List Maritime Asia is supplied to leading shipping and transport companies throughout Asia.

Ms Grace Fu, CEO of PSA Singapore Terminals, said: “PSA Singapore is most honoured to receive this award. We would like to thank our valued customers and business associates who have voted for PSA Singapore. We value the support that our customers have given us. This has been a very busy year for us.

The Award would not have been possible without the total dedication of our staff towards providing quality services to our customers. Our deep appreciation to every one of our staff for their commitment and relentless hard work Mr Aaron Mak, PSA China CEO, said: “We are deeply honoured by the strong vote of confidence from our customers and associates for Guangzhou Container Terminal. We will continue to strive to deliver the best quality services at all our port projects in China, namely Dalian, Fuzhou and Guangzhou.”

The Lloyd’s List Maritime Asia Awards winners are selected through a two-stage voting process. There are altogether 13 voting categories.
The first stage is a popular vote by the readers of Lloyd’s List Maritime Asia and of the world’s oldest daily newspaper, Lloyd’s List to determine the three finalists in each category. The readers make their choice based on their own professional experiences and the set of guidelines laid down by the magazine. For the Best Container Terminal and Best Emerging Container Terminal categories, the critieria were cost of service, value for money, average speed to berthing, onsite facilities, overall efficiency - truck turnaround time, and frequency of liner calls.

In the second stage, an independent panel of judges, which comprises industry experts, decides on the winner for each category from among the finalists. Every judge is asked to vote for categories for which they hold direct relevant experience and where there is no conflict of interest.

PSA is one of the leading port operators in the world. With its flagship operations in Singapore and Belgium, PSA operates an extensive global network of 17 port projects in 11 countries across Europe, India, China and East Asia. Employing the finest talents in the industry, PSA delivers reliable and best-in-class services to its customers and develops win-win relationships with its partners. As the port operator of choice in the world's gateway hubs, PSA is "The World's Port of Call". In 2003, PSA handled 28.7 million TEUs of containers worldwide.