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2026 Winners

Roll of Honour

Seatrade Cruise Roll of Honour

Having received over 160 entries, brimming with innovation, new technologies and personal triumphs from the world of cruise, this year's winners of the Seatrade Cruise Awards were announced at Seatrade Cruise Med 2026!

Sponsored by Oracle Hospitality and Tura Turizm

Roll of Honour

2026 Winners

Line Murphy for Stavanger Norway

Destination of the Year

Stavanger, Norway

Represented by Line Murphy, Cruise Manager, Region Stavanger

Finalists:

  • Dubrovnik, Croatia
  • Gibraltar
Stefan Engl for HX Expeditions X AROS Marine

Expedition Cruise Initiative of the Year

HX Expeditions X AROS Marine - 1896 Cabin, A 130 Years Experience

Represented by Stefan Engl, SVP, Guest Experience Operations, HX Expeditions

Finalists:

  • UNITED WATERWAYS X Ocean Advice
  • Aqua Expeditions
Nathan Philpot for Excursions Ltd

Innovative Shorex of the Year

Excursions Ltd - 1896 Cabin, A 130 Years Experience

Represented by Nathan Philpot, Chief Executive Officer, Excursions Ltd

Finalists:

  • Abercrombie & Kent (Akorn Destination Management) 
  • Intercruises Shoreside & Port Services X National Geographic Expeditions
Viggo Sundvold for Skjolden Port

Port of the Year

Skjolden Port, Norway

Represented by Viggo Sundvold, Port Director, Skjolden Port

Finalists:

  • Port Cabo Rojo, Dominican Republic
  • Portsmouth International Port, UK
Nico Nicholas for Zeero

Product of the Year

Zeero Group - Circular Biofuel Technology for Cruise

Represented by Nico Nicholas, CEO of Zeero Group

Finalists:

  • Otalio GmbH
  • MarineXchange Software GmbH
Peter Wright for Dover

Sponsored by Cruise Baltic

Sustainability Initiative of the Year

Port of Dover - Carbon Net Zero

Represented by Peter Wright, Head of Cruise Organisation, Dover Harbour Board

Finalists:

  • Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings
  • MSC Cruises x ORCA Partnership
  • Virgin Voyages
Richard J Vogel

Outstanding Achievement of the Year

Winner: Richard J. Vogel

Consultant, C-Level Executive, Cruise and Tourism Expert, Former Cruise Line CEO

Phillippe Hetland Brault

Sponsored by V.Ships

Personality of the Year

Winner: Philippe Hetland Brault

President, Orient Express SILENSEAS

Past Winners

Two decades of celebrating success and counting

2025 Seatrade Cruise Awards Winners

WINNER

  • Copenhagen Malmö Port, Denmark/Sweden

FINALISTS

  • Port of Bridgetown, Barbados
  • Stornoway Port, UK

WINNER

  • Tura Gold - Living Dig: Behind the Scenes in Kastabos, Turkey

FINALISTS

  • Abercrombie & Kent (Akorn Destination Management) – Master Weavers of Pile, Ecuador
  • Atlas Ocean Voyages – Barcelona from the Heights to the Shore: An Evening of Sights, Flavors and Flamenco Soul

WINNER

  • Lindblad Expeditions-National Geographic Fund initiative

FINALISTS

  • Broome International Airport – Cruise Lounge
  • Seabourn – Image Masters Program

WINNER

  • The British Isles - Britain and Ireland

FINALISTS

  • Puerto Rico
  • Sitka Sound, Alaska

WINNER

  • Carnival Corporation & plc. – Less Left Over strategy initiative

FINALISTS

  • Bodrum Cruise Port – One Day. One Ship. One Future
  • HX Expedition – Science & Education Program

WINNER

  • KaptureCx – Cabin Selection

FINALISTS

  • CONDUCTR – Glow Court
  • WMS – Cellular at Sea Cruise+

WINNER

  • AmaWaterways – Launch of AmaMagdalena on Colombia’s Magdalena River

FINALISTS

  • Century Cruises – Eco-conscious Yangtze Fleet and Nile ExpansionUNITED WATERWAYS – River Cruise Configurator

WINNER

  • Andrea Zito, CEO, Swan Hellenic

WINNER

  • Niels-Erik Lund, Founder, SunStone Maritime Group

2024 Seatrade Cruise Awards Winners

WINNER

  • Fowey Harbour, United Kingdom

FINALISTS

  • Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
  • Tourism Kingston, Canada

WINNER

  • PONANT East Greenland Expedition

FINALISTS

  • Chukka Caribbean Adventures’ Cooking, Coffee, & Casa Typica
  • Panoramic Excursions’ St. Lucia by Double Decker Bus

WINNER

  • Carnival Corporation & plc W.O.N

FINALISTS

  • Lemoneight
  • MJM Marine

WINNER

  • HX Foundation Rapid Response Fund

FINALISTS

  • Colombia57 Expedition Cruise to Cabo de la Vela, La Guajira
  • Swan Hellenic Explore & Restore Cruises

WINNER

  • Portsmouth International Port

FINALISTS

  • Port of Benoa, Indonesia
  • Tarragona Cruise Port, Spain

WINNER

  • Sourcetoad: OnDeck Mobile App

FINALISTS

  • CTModule: Callisto PINcode Telephony
  • Speedcast: SIGMA

WINNER

  • Paul Gauguin Cruises in French Polynesia

FINALISTS

  • MarineXchange MXP Enterprise Platform
  • Virgin Voyages’ An Epic Sea Change For All

WINNER

  • Giora Israel, Giora Israel LLC

WINNER

  • Marie-Caroline Laurent, CLIA Europe

2023 Seatrade Cruise Awards Winners

WINNER

  • Cruise Gate Hamburg, Germany

FINALISTS

  • Cruise Saudi, Saudi Arabia
  • Haifa, Israel

WINNER

  • Intercruises Marine Treasures of Mallorca

FINALISTS

  • Global Cruises - Let’s Bond Together: 007 Agents in Nassau
  • Silversea Cruises: S.A.L.T - Beauty of the French Riviera with Market and Lunch at Mirazur, one of the World’s Best Restaurants

WINNER

  • Atlas Ocean Voyages Epicurean Expeditions

FINALISTS

  • Sourcetoad’s OnDeck Experience Communication System
  • Colombia57 - Colombia Caribbean Coast Exploration

WINNER

  • Port of Haugesund, Norway

FINALISTS

  • Port Saint John, Canada
  • Port of Thessaloniki, Greece

WINNER

  • Silverstream-Air Lubrication Technology

FINALISTS

  • Survitec Group - Seahaven Advanced Evacuation System
  • Tower Supplies - CtrlFlow ECA Technology

WINNER

  • American Queen Voyages

WINNER

  • MSC Cruises - MSC Euribia

FINALISTS

  • Pacific Northwest to Alaska Ports - Green Corridor for Cruise
  • Tillberg Design of Sweden

WINNER

  • Mai Elmar

WINNER

  • Wybcke Meier

2022 Seatrade Cruise Awards Winners

WINNER

  • Port of Taranto, Italy

FINALISTS

  • City of Dubrovnik, Croatia
  • Cruise Britain

WINNER

  • Abercrombie & Kent (Akorn) - Mombasa: Past and Present

FINALISTS

  • Global Cruises LLC - Supporting St. Martin's Nature Reserve: One Mangrove at a Time
  • Intercruises - Archaeologist for the Day: be part of Ancient Roman History

WINNER

  • Hapag Lloyd Cruises’ Finnish and Swedish Lapland expedition

FINALISTS

  • American Queen Voyages' debut Alaska expedition season
  • The Great Lakes Cruise Association - intro of Lake Superior North Shore Inside Passag

WINNER

  • Carnival Cruise Line's DEI, Learning and Community Initiatives

FINALISTS

  • Cruise Saudi's Local Training Initiatives
  • Hurtigruten Group's Black Traveler Advisory Board

WINNER

  • Galataport Istanbul

FINALISTS

  • Port Canaveral
  • Portsmouth International Port

WINNER

  • Climeon - HeatPower 300 Marine Technology

FINALISTS

  • Survitec Group - Seahaven Advanced Evacuation System
  • Tower Supplies - CtrlFlow ECA Technology

WINNER

  • Environmental Port Index

FINALISTS

  • Nassau Cruise Port's Redevelopment Project
  • Lufthansa Industry Solutions - Food Waste Reduction AI Tool

WINNER

  • Claus Bødker, Cruise Baltic & Cruise Copenhagen

WINNER

  • Chris Theophilides, CEO, Celestyal Cruises

2021 Seatrade Cruise Awards Winners

WINNER

  • ABP Southampton

FINALISTS

  • Cruise Saudi
  • Galataport Istanbul

WINNER

  • MSC Cruises

FINALIST

  • TUI Cruises

WINNER

  • Port St Maarten Group

FINALISTS

  • Solent Stevedores
  • Valletta Cruise Port

WINNER

  • Ponant – Le Commandant Charcot

FINALISTS

  • Vantage Travel – Ocean Explorer
  • Crystal Cruises – Crystal Endeavor

WINNER

  • Marella Cruises 

FINALISTS

  • Windstar Cruises
  • YSA

WINNER

  • Wireless Maritime Services

FINALISTS

  • BROMIC Eumar
  • Design
  • Intellian

WINNER

  • Steripower

FINALISTS

  • HOBART Global Marine
  • Survitec Group

WINNER

  • American Caribbean Maritime Foundation

FINALISTS

  • CLIA's Stephani E.D. McDow
  • Virgin Voyages

WINNER

  • Roland Torsten Land, Director, KfW IPEX-Bank GmbH

WINNER

  • Federal Maritime Commissioner Louis E. Sola

2020 Seatrade Cruise Awards Winners

WINNER

  • Barbados

FINALISTS

  • CruiseCopenhagen
  • St Kitts and Nevis

WINNER

  • Vikand Solutions

FINALISTS

  • Broward Health International
  • Tritan Software

WINNER

  • Intercruises Shoreside & Port Services - Plastic Fishing, The Netherlands

FINALISTS

  • Excursion Ireland’s Traditional Ireland tour of Ardara
  • Mifsud Brothers Ltd – Retro Ride, Malta

WINNER

  • Icy Strait Point, Alaska 

FINALISTS

  • Port of Dover, UK
  • Passenger Port of St. Petersburg "Marine Façade", Russia

WINNER

  • Silversea Cruises – The Silversea Fund for the Galapagos

FINALISTS

  • Hurtigruten’s hybrid electric powered expedition ships - Roald Amundsen and Fridtjof Nansen
  • Marseille Provence Cruise Club - Blue Charter Cruise initiative 

WINNER

  • Scenic Neptune luxury submersible onboard Scenic Eclipse

FINALISTS

  • ASENAV’s newbuild Magellan Explorer
  • Ponant’s Bijages Archipelgo, Guinea-Bissau itinerary

WINNER

  • Peter Kollar, Head of Training & Development, CLIA Australasia

FINALISTS

  • American Caribbean Maritime Foundation
  • Claudine Pohl

WINNER

  • David Vass, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Cruise Business & Operations, Abercrombie & Kent Destination Management

WINNER

  • Universal Marine Medical Supply “Unimed”

WINNER

  • Mário Ferreira, Chairman, Mystic Invest Holding

2019 Seatrade Cruise Awards Winners

WINNER

- Cruise Baltic

Finalists

- Busselton, Western Australia

- Cruise Baltic

- Sete Cruise Club, France

WINNER

- DeCurtis Corporation – Online Booking Platform

FINALISTS
- DeCurtis Corporation – Online Booking Platform

- Intellian Technologies – v240MT VSAT Antenna System

- V.Ships Leisure – Shipsure 2.0

WINNER

- SMC Design for Saga Cruises Spirit of Discovery

FINALISTS
- Eumar Santehnika for Five Point Plus vanity unit

- Marella Cruises for 19th Hole Clubhouse onboard Marella Explorer 2

- SMC Design for Saga Cruises Spirit of Discovery

WINNER

- Zadar Cruise Port, Croatia

FINALISTS
- Port of OldenLoen, Norway

- Port of Yokohama, Japan

- Zadar Cruise Port, Croatia

WINNER

- Hullwiper Ltd – Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicle

FINALISTS
- DNV GL - AFI (Alternative Fuel Insight) Platform

- Hullwiper Ltd – Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicle

- LuminUltra - LuminUltra Cloud™

WINNER

- Caribbean Village – Cruise Marketing Platform

FINALISTS
- Caribbean Village – Cruise Marketing

- PlatformOneSpaWorld & Celebrity Cruises – The Spa on Celebrity Edge

- Zielia – Digital Destination Platform

WINNER

- Abercrombie & Kent (Akorn) – Incubating Vidigal Entrepreneurs, Rio de Janiero, Brazil

FINALISTS
- Astoria Shipping and Tourist Agency - The Daily Life in a Nun's Monastery, Patmos, Greece

- Intercruises Shoreside & Port Services – Behind the Scenes at the Marine Mammal Center, San Francisco, USA

WINNER

- Rudi Schreiner, President/Co-Owner, AmaWaterways

WINNER

- Robin Shaw, CEO, Saga Travel