The Seatrade Maritime Awards, the largest and longest awards body for the maritime industry Middle East, Indian subcontinent, and African regions, recently introduced the intro of several new award categories to showcase the outstanding success within the maritime and delivery industries and throughout regions.The new awards include Shipyard of the Year and Maritime Services Award under the 'Industry' group and the Combination of Ladies in the Maritime Sector Award under the 'Personality and Community' group. The premier award also introduces a new category, 'Regional Focus', which identifies the most effective regional entertainers via the Africa Maritime Award and the Indian Subcontinent Maritime Award.

Under the patronage of H.E. Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, Chairman of Ports, Custom-mades and Cost-free Area Company and Chairman of Dubai Maritime City Authority, the Seatrade Maritime Awards brings in over 700 industry leaders and federal government authorities in a gala event held as part of the UAE Maritime Week 2018.

Organisers desire maritime industry gamers from the Middle East, Indian subcontinent and Africa to participate to 21 different honors distributed in 4 groups consisting of Technical and Operational, Industry, Regional Focus, and Individuality & Community.

Chris Hayman, Chairman of Seatrade, which is under the umbrella of UBM EMEA, said: "As Seatrade Maritime Awards celebrates its 15th year, it is exciting to witness the massivemaritime advancement occurring in the center East, the subcontinent and African regions. It is indeed significant to continue acknowledging and celebrating the success of the industry in different sections as they bring to the fore the most effective techniques within the maritime and delivery industry. It is noteworthy that the Middle East and neighbouring regions of Africa and the Indian subcontinent continues to be positive in making a considerable payment in the global maritime industry, which also truly deserves recognition."

Submission to entries are free of cost and could be done via the main Seatrade Maritime Honors access system at www.seatrademiddleeastawards.com on or prior to July 20, 2018. Victors will certainly be honoured in a gala ceremony at the Atlantis, The Palm on Sunday, October 28, 2018.