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October 5, 2026

October 5, 2026

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Take part in the nominations

Express your preferences for the following categories BY SEPTEMBER 20, accompanied by a justification if necessary. It is not mandatoryto provide your personal details (first and last name), nor to express a preference for all categories. You can submitself-nominations, preferably with reasons.
All professionals, companies, and organizations (Italian or foreign) belonging to the relevant cluster are eligible if they have distinguished themselves in the current year and/or in recent periods for the results achieved, the strategies pursued, the initiatives undertaken, and the conduct in the relevant category.
Operators may compete in more than one category, provided that it is relevant and consistent (in the opinion of the jury) and may therefore be in the running for and win more than one award.
After examining all the votes received from readers and those proposed by the jury and the S2S editorial staff (who may propose alternative and additional candidates if they deem it appropriate), a shortlist of three nominees will be drawn up and a winner will be designated, whose name will be kept strictly confidential and will only be revealed when the envelopes are opened during the awards ceremony. 

The complete regulations
  1. Liquid cargo owner (tanker & gas)
  2. Dry cargo shipowner, general cargo, container
  3. Passenger shipowner (cruises and ferries)
  4. Logistics worker (freight forwarders, warehouses, trucking)
  5. Intermodal operator (combined, rail, interports)
  6. Broker and shipping agent
  7. Energy (oil, gas, lng, lpg, hydrogen, bio, commodities trading)
  8. PROFESSIONAL advisors (finance, legal, tax, customs, architects, engineers, insurers)
  9. Authorities (aDSP, LOCAL AUTHORITIES, AND INSTITUTIONS)
  10. Terminal operator
  11. Maritime services (technical-nautical, bunkering, classification, catering, manning)
  12. Shipyards (construction, repair, maintenance)
  13. HANDLING (handling and lifting, equipment, exceptional loads, project cargo)
  14. ESG Green ( environment-social-governance, innovation, sustainability, safety, training, equal opportunities, welfare)
  15. Career (including posthumous)
  16. Lady
  17. New generation
  18. history (tradition & resilience, historic companies)
  19. evolution ( internationalization, diversification, start-ups)
  20. Trade associations    
THE CATEGORIES

Regulations

  1. Eligible are all professionals, companies and entities (Italian or foreign) that have distinguished themselves in the current year and/or in recent previous periods for their achievements, strategies pursued, initiatives undertaken and conduct in the relevant category, except that the candidate is allowed to participate in more than one category
  2. Anyone-professionals, companies, and entities (Italian or foreign)-who are part of the target cluster may be voted for: thus including Italian professionals, companies entities that are based and/or work (mostly) abroad, and foreign professionals, companies, and entities that are based and/or work (mostly) in Italy.
  3. Operators may compete for more than one category as long as it is relevant and congruent (in the Jury's judgment) and thus may be in contention and win more than one award; in addition, when awarding the prize, the Jury may decide to award the nomination and/or win to a candidate in a category other than the one for which he or she was initially nominated, according to its own criteria of logic and merit
  4. Anyone and even multiple times (i.e., not the same individual but multiple members of the same organization) will be able to vote, and it will also be possible to vote for oneself or one's own organization, preferably with a credible motivation
  5. Votes by voters may be cast with or without justification
  6. After examining all the votes received from the Readers and those proposed by the Jury (which may propose alternative and additional candidates where it sees fit) a trio of nominations will be drawn up and a winner designated, whose name will be kept strictly confidential, and who will be revealed only at the opening of the envelopes during the awards evening. It is forbidden for members of the Jury to give any indication of nominations and winners to anyone
  7. In addition to the votes indicated by the 'popular jury' of Readers, the Jurors and the S2S Editorial Board may indicate candidates of their own nomination deserving to be put in contention up to 3 in each category
  8. In case of (latent) conflict of interest on some nomination, it is appropriate for the Juror to abstain from voting related to that category
  9. In the event of a category winner being unavailable (for whatever reason) to receive the award at the gala, it will be awarded to the second-ranked winner, and in the event of further defaillance by the latter, it will go to the third nominee in nomination
  10. Any disputes, questions or doubts of interpretation regarding the validity of the votes and the subjects voted on will be submitted to the unquestionable judgment of the Jury, which in turn in case of uncertainty, divergence or lack of unanimity, will vote by majority vote, with the President of the Jury having the deciding vote in case of further parity or doubt.