PSA Corporation Wins Inaugural CIO Awards 2001

PSA Corporation has been named winner of the CIO Award by CIO (ASEAN & Hong Kong) magazine in its inaugural CIO 100 rankings, which honours enterprises in the region that have effectively leveraged on IT to deliver demonstrable, strategic business value to their businesses.

In its March 2001 issue, CIO (ASEAN & Hong Kong) magazine said: "PSA Corp is our winner because it has brought a front end system that has made them very successful onto a new level. PORTNET®is the world’s first e-commerce network for an entire shipping community in a country (Singapore) when it was rolled out in 1984 and remains to be the only such network in the world."

"Leveraging the best in technology is something that PSA has always done. This is evident when you chart the evolution of PORTNET®leading up to the present, when it moved from the old world of computing to the new world of Internet-oriented computing powered in measure by Java-based applications, adding value for customers at every step and turn."

Mr Robert Yap, Executive Vice-President (Information Technology), PSA Corporation said, "We are pleased to emerge as one of the winners for the inaugural CIO Awards. PSA Corporation is committed to harnessing IT to unlock new value for our customers. Our continued investment in IT has enabled us to achieve higher productivity and service breakthroughs."

PSA Corporation operates the world’s largest container transhipment hub in Singapore. It provides every shipper an unrivalled choice of 300 shipping lines with connections to 700 ports. This includes daily sailing to every major port in the world. As a testimony of its excellent efficiency and quality service, PSA Corporation was also voted the ‘Best Container Terminal’ at the prestigious Lloyd’s List Maritime Asia Awards 2000 for two consecutive years. PSA Corporation was awarded ‘Best Container Terminal Operator (Asia)’ for the 11th time, and Singapore the ‘Best Seaport (Asia)’ for the 12th time at the Asian Freight Industry Awards 2000. PSA Corporation was also the first Singaporean multi-national corporation to be conferred the prestigious Singapore Quality Award for business excellence.

Besides its operations in Singapore, the PSA Group is involved in developing, managing and/or operating 10 port projects in seven countries around the world in Brunei, China, India, Italy, Korea, Portugal and Yemen.

MAJOR INTERNATIONAL IT AWARDS ACHIEVED BY PSA

PSA has been conferred many international awards/citations which testify to the success and capabilities of PSA’s IT systems. Some of the key ones are: