Shipping Podcast - this is where we talk about the coolest industry on the planet and help raise the maritime industry's profile.

Since joining International Registries Inc., IRI's legal staff in 1991, William Gallagher has worked closely with the Marshall Islands government and its legislative agenda. Although he has traveled around the globe meeting clients and speaking at corporate and maritime seminars, William Gallagher has been most instrumental in working with IRI's Far East clientele. Prior to joining IRI he speciali...

Meet Hannah van Hemmen , a young scientist and engineer who works as a marine surveyor at MARTIN OTTAWAY. She talks about what it's like to be young in an old fashion industry with cutting edge technology and which she thinks gets too little attention. Hannah has got some really good ideas how the shipping industry can become more visible, why not take her up on the idea of a female surveyor as th...

Brent C. Bruun, Chief Operating Officer of mobile broadband for KVH Industries , joined KVH in 2008 and has been instrumental in setting the strategy for KVH's mini-VSAT Broadband service, which is now the industry's leading maritime VSAT provider. Brent Bruun is dedicated to creating solutions to meet the maritime industry's need for improved operations through connectivity. Before joining KVH, B...

Espen Poulsson, Chairman of ENESEL PTE. LTD ., a Singapore based commercial management and ship owning entity, managing 14 large modern container vessels all under the Singapore Flag. Mr Poulsson has worked in the maritime industry for over 40 years. He spent 20 years with TORM A/S in a variety of senior management positions in Hong Kong, London, Copenhagen and, most recently, as President & CEO o...

Kathy Metcalf, President and CEO at Chamber of Shipping of America . Kathy graduated in June 1978 with highest honors from the US Merchant Marine Academy with a Bachelor of Science in Marine Transportation and Nautical Sciences. She spent five years as a deck officer aboard crude oil and product tankers. Kathy became the Director of Maritime Affairs for the Chamber of Shipping of America, a mariti...

Carleen Lyden-Kluss , CEO Morgan Marketing & Communications , Co-Founder and Executive Director of NAMEPA (North American Marine Environment Protection Association) and Ambassador of the International Maritime Organization (IMO). Carleen is a member of WISTA (Women's International Shipping and Trading Association) where she serves as Press Officer for the International organization, the Connecticu...

Anna Larsson , Vice President, Global Head of Sustainability, Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics and Chair of the Trident Alliance . Anna Larsson explains that the Trident Alliance is an industry grouping working for robust enforcement of the new sulphur regulations. When the #SECA areas was introduced, the authorities didn't talk a lot about how to make sure that everyone followed the new regulations...

Alisdair Pettigrew has 15 years experience of working in the markets where marine, energy and environment meet. He is co-founder of BLUE, a communications' consultancy , whose mission is to bring new strategic intelligence to reputation management in industries that must alter perceptions of their economic and social value. He came to communications from a successful decade in journalism and as pu...

Diane Gilpin designed and leads The Smart Green Shipping Alliance, SGSA . It is a collaborative industry initiative created to build technically, commercially and environmentally superior systems solutions for the shipping sector. It accelerates projects through co-creation, transferring technology and knowledge from offshore yacht racing, F1, renewable energy, aviation and defence to complement d...

Roger Harris is the Executive Director of the International Seafarers' Welfare and Assistance Network (ISWAN) . He joined the International Committee on Seafarer's Welfare (ICSW), the predecessor to ISWAN, six years ago. Previous to working at ICSW, Roger worked in senior positions, mainly in fundraising, for a range of not for profit organisations including Concern Worldwide (UK), the internation...

Kate D Adamson is a Blue Futurist and thought-leader in the maritime space, she the founder of Futurenautics , an author, novelist, conference chair and keynote speaker. Alongside her work as keynote speaker, Kate is an accomplished and frequently requested conference MC, roundtable anchor, and has presented both for TV and Radio. Some of her most requested topics include: – Future of transport an...

Kathi Stanzel is the Managing Director of the International Association of Independent Tanker Owners,  INTERTANKO  since five years. Prior to that she was twelve years with the International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation,  ITOPF , and the International Oil Pollution Compensation Funds,  IOPC . Kathi has a background in Coastal Management & Marine Biology and is passionate about the environmen...

Sue Williams, QPM , is an international, independent kidnap response expert, who spent 32 years as a civil servant in the Scotland Yard , where she ended as head of the Hostage Crisis Negotiation Unit, prior to starting her own company as an independent consultant.  Sue has been involved in hundreds of hostage situations including piracy attacks and she walks us through the various stages of an at...

Kathleen C. Haines (Kathy) is the Chief Financial Officer, CFO, and Treasurer of Heidmar Inc . and is responsible for the financial management and reporting for Heidmar Inc. and subsidiaries, and for Heidmar International Pools Inc. and subsidiaries. She is also a member of the Heidmar Executive Committee . Kathy has over 20 years of financial and accounting experience within the maritime industry...

Dr Tristan Smith is a lecturer in Energy and Transport at the UCL Energy Institute , where he leads a shipping modelling and analysis research group. Tristan has degrees in Engineering and Naval Architecture and he has been the coordinator of the project Low Carbon Shipping – A Systems Approach , leading two of the six work packages on 'modelling the global shipping system' and 'regulation policy...

Adam Kent has always loved ships and was actually a ship-spotter when he was young. He grew up on the Isle of Wight , but was never meant to work in the shipping industry. Maritime Strategies International is an independent shipping consultancy, producing market forecasting of the shipping markets. In order to do that you need to be on top of everything from steel price, unemployment rates and GDP...

Niclas Dahl is the Market Unit Manager for Marine & Diesel Equipment at Alfa Laval in Shanghai, but he started up as a Business Manager for the Ballast Water business area within Alfa Laval some ten years ago.  He has been through a fantastic period of technical challenges, environmental considerations and together with the team was responsible for building a completely new company within the comp...

Andreas Chrysostomou is a naval architect who grew up through the ranks and last year was Nomination for IMO as a candidate for the position of Secretary-General at the International Maritime Organisation, IMO . Andreas was not elected in the political game of electing the head of one of the special agencies of the United Nations, UN , but he shares his experiences from taking part in the process....

Markky Mylly, Managing Director of the European Maritime Safety Agency, EMSA , formerly employed by the Finnish Maritime Administration , but above all a "tanker-man" is running EMSA in Lisbon, which is the link between the member states and the European Commission when it comes to maritime regulations. Markku is of the opinion that the shipping industry is fulfilling the SECA regulations which ca...

Yvonne Pokropek is the HR Director for 13 countries within the DB Schenker group. She has a background in the union, the HR team in Port of Gothenburg , at LEAR Corporation and now more than a decade within the forwarding company DB Schenker .  Yvonne has the experience from many different management styles and has her view clear on what motivates people; good leadership. We have an interesting di...

Karin Orsel is a 45 year old Shipowner, Ship manager & Entrepreneur who thinks it is very important to engage and get involved in the international trade associations within the shipping industry - how else can you influence upcoming regulations, gain knowledge and have a heads-up?  Listen to how she took a leap of faith 1994, at the age of 23, started a shipping company with one client, 6 vessels...

Per Bondemark is the Chief Procurement Officer at SSAB , a Swedish steel company listed on NASDAQ in Stockholm. He leads a team at SSAB which is buying transport for more than SEK 3 bio, handle approximately 900 ships yearly and are used to tackle the ice situation in the Baltic Sea .  There are so many different angles in this interview, we touch upon raw material in steel (!), politicians, regul...

Rolf Westerström, CEO of the Swedish Sea Rescue Society, SSRS , speaks about how their organisation has developed over the last 20-25 years, how accidents as ESTONIA , SCANDINAVIAN STAR & JAN HEWELIUSZ was a wakeup call and what impact they had on the development of new, faster and more safe rescue boats and how mass evacuation now is looked upon in a completely different way. Rolf also gives the...

You are meeting 8 shipping business women who attended the Women's International Shipping and Trading Association, WISTA , International AGM & Conference in Istanbul, Turkey October, 7-10, 2015 and Consuelo is the final one. Consuelo Rivero , Shipping Agent at Ership in Huelva, Spain, has been the Secretary of the WISTA International Executive Committee for the last six years and she is the most l...

You are meeting 8 shipping business women who attended the Women's International Shipping and Trading Association, WISTA International AGM & Conference in Istanbul, Turkey October, 7-10, 2015. Danae D. Bezantakou is the Managing Director of Navigator Shipping Consultants and a member of WISTA Hellas . She is a member of several leadership programmes and she has started the Open Mind Group for ment...