Winners of WFSA competition for a safe affordable ferry to speak at 48th Interferry conference Winners of the Worldwide Ferry Safety Association (WFSA) annual student competition for designing a safe affordable ferry will speak at Interferry’s 48th annual conference , which is being held in Marrakesh, Morocco, on 28-29 October 2024.   

For this year’s WFSA competition, participants were asked to design a ro-pax vessel that could accommodate 150-200 passengers, space for cargo and 15 to 20 four-wheel vehicles, which could include lorries and trucks. Designers had to take into consideration the vessel’s intended route, a shallow-drafted stretch of the Niger River in southern Nigeria’s Anambra State, from Onitsha Jetty to Idah Jetty, and from Onitsha Jetty to Ndoni Jetty.   

“The competition comes as Nigeria has rapidly created a robust and sustainable ferry system for the city of Lagos,” said Dr. Roberta Weisbrod, executive director of WFSA. “The question now is whether the inland waterways of Nigeria – the Niger River – could enjoy similar successes?” 

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