Daewoo Mangalia shipyard manager Sebastian Depner has decisively won TradeWinds’ Maritime Photographer of the Year contest fighting off a strong late challenge by Stolt-Nielsen master Ole Borkenhagen.

A line up of seagulls on a mooring rope of a containership being readied for delivery (photo D) won Depner, a 31 years old senior assistant manager of the Romanian shipyard’s hull department almost 24% of the votes cast.

Sebastian Depner
A delighted Sebastian tells TradeWinds he is a keen photographer and looking forward to making good use of the Nikon D90 digital SLR that will soon be on its way to him.