Maritime Hackathon 2026
Name of the competition: Maritime Hackathon 2026
About the competition: Maritime Hackathon 2026 aims to expose students to the maritime industry and the challenges faced by the industry. The problem statement challenges students to propose innovative solutions through data-driven creativity. With challenges focused on decarbonisation strategies, vessel cost optimisation and safety evaluation, participants will apply their skills in Artificial Intelligence and data analytics to tackle real-world maritime problems.
Date of competition: 6-7 February 2026
Achievement: 1st Runner-Up
Prize: $3000
REP Students: Gudamarlahalli Shivashankar Harshith, Li Yuexin, Nickolas Chua Teck Yang, Yang Xianyan Winston
Product/Proposal: The team designed a fleet strategy to transport bunker fuel from Singapore to Australia while minimising total cost and carbon emissions and maintaining a RightShip safety score ≥ 3.0.
Description: The team built a binary MILP to optimise bunker fuel fleet selection from Singapore to Australia, minimising cost and emissions while enforcing a minimum RightShip safety score. Carbon pricing was embedded into vessel costs, and trade-offs were analysed using an ε-constraint Pareto frontier.
To ensure real-world robustness, the team also added a min–max formulation to hedge against carbon price volatility and tested tighter safety regulations (RightShip 3.0 → 4.0). The results showed that while deterministic solutions were cheaper, robust fleets delivered greater resilience under regulatory and carbon shocks.
From left to right: Li Yue Xin, Nickolas Chua Teck Yang, Yang Xianyan Winston and Gudamarlahalli Shivashankar Harshith