Ultranav SDG-Challenge autumn 2025
Challenge
Ultranav, a leading maritime company, is on a mission to drastically reduce emissions across its global fleet, and they need your ideas. The challenge: Develop a practical, scalable solution to harness wind energy on commercial ships that helps Ultranav move toward zero-emission shipping, without sacrificing speed, flexibility, or competitiveness. This is your chance to reduce emissions on a global scale!
You’ll need to consider:
- Technology: What wind-assisted propulsion or energy-harnessing innovations could work at sea?
- Logistics: How would your solution impact port operations, crew, or routing?
- Cost vs. Benefit: Is your idea realistic to implement without the loss of a competitive advantage?
- Performance: Can your solution keep vessels on schedule and globally competitive?
In short: How can Ultranav harness the power of wind to make global shipping more sustainable?
Who should apply?
We're looking for bright, creative minds from across disciplines; students who are passionate about sustainability, innovation, and real-world impact.
Whether you want to design sail-assist systems, rethink shipping logistics, or develop sustainable business models ; this is your chance to shape the future of maritime transport.
About Ultranav
Ultranav is a privately owned group of shipping companies with offices in 19 countries. Through twelve businesses, we operate in five market segments: Tankers, gas, dry bulk, coastal trades, and towage & offshore. We operate a fleet of gas and chemical carriers, tankers for crude oil and clean petroleum products, bulk carriers, feeder container ships, multipurpose vessels, harbour tugs, PSVs, AHTS vessels, pusher tugs, barges and pilot boats.
Our mission: We aspire to be a partner you can trust to provide efficient and safe maritime transportation services to the mutual benefit of our customers, employees, communities and the environment.