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You will be 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. Sanjam Gupta , Director Sitara Shipping Ltd , India is the President of WISTA India and also a member of the WISTA International Executive Committee, EXCO . She is the founder of WISTA India and in this...

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. In this, the nineteenth episode, I meet with Joan Nuijten-Muller , the current President of WISTA the Netherlands and HR Manager at the family owned tugboat company Multraship B.V. Joan is sharing her passio...

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.  In the 18th episode of the Shipping Podcast, Jeanne Grasso is in the hot seat. Jeanne is a maritime lawyer and Partner at Blank Rome LLP in Washington DC. She was just listed as number 4 of the Top 10 Lawye...

You will be 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 . In this episode you meet Sylvia Boer, a young woman who decided that she had to work within the maritime industry after having watched her father work in this international and dynamic industry - shippi...

Naa Densua Aryeetey, is the Head of Shippers Service at the Ghana Shippers' Authority in Accra. She was one of the founders of WISTA Ghana in 2010 and she has now taken on the task of being one of the members of the WISTA International Executive Committee, EXCO , responsible for spreading the word about women in shipping in Africa. Naa is a graduate from the World Maritime University in Malmö, whi...

You will be 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. In this episode you will meet Teresa Peacock , Managing Director,  Spinnaker Global , Shipping Recruitment. She came into the shipping industry 7 years ago and was amazed by the size of the industry and...

Gerardo A. Borromeo, CEO PTC Holdings , Chairman of InterManager  and Vice Chairman International Chamber of Shipping , ICS, is appearing in this the 14th episode of the Shipping Podcast. Gerardo, or Dito to his friends, is passionate about shipping and crewing in particular. PTC Holdings have got 600,000 employees onboard 700 vessels around the globe. Education and training is very important to D...

Per Stefenson is the naval architect responsible for the conversion of the STENA GERMANICA to methanol. This project is one of the answers to the SECA rules which has become a talking point all over the world.  Per is mentioning the Methanol Institute  as one of their partners when developing this first ever conversion of a ship engine from diesel to methanol. He also praises Wärtsilä and Lloyd's...

Philip Chaabane is a young CEO at Selektope , a selective marine antifouling technology, who has been working in the automotive industry and now found the shipping industry. From a blank paper to the possibility of seeing it from the inside of course gave him the bug! The office of Selektope is situated in the Astra Zeneca Bio Venture Hub , which is in the same building where their R&D department...

Helén Jansson is the mastermind behind the Zero Vision Tool platform , aiming at a vision of a maritime industry without negative impact on air and water. She is also the former project leader for the Baltic Sea Position  and several other projects. Helén enjoys working with people, she is a strategist and she is really good at wording ideas into a message other people can understand and take onbo...

Anders Brödje has been with the Swedish Maritime Administration , SMA, for a very long time. He is very passionate about management of information and how manual work processes in the maritime domain can be automated and digitalised, reducing the risks and contributing to a safer, more efficient maritime industry reducing the environmental footprint.   E-navigation is the evolution of navigation s...

Per Erling Evensen just retired from the duty as Marketing Manager at Destination Gotland and has left for an around the world sailing tour for the coming years. Prior to him leaving, he took the time for a chat about how the concept of Destination Gotland was developed and what that has meant to the people of Gotland . Per Erling found himself employed by a Shipowner, Rederi AB Gotland , in 1997,...

Meet David Kristensson, CEO Northern Offshore Services and a shipping entrepreneur. David is born and raised on the island of Donsö , in the archipelago outside Gothenburg, which is a centre for tanker shipping in Sweden. Donsö has app. 1,400 inhabitants, 8 shipowning companies controlling 35 tankers in various sizes, trading North European waters. David is a Master Mariner and an Engineer. He gre...

Håkan Svensson is a shipping entrepreneur. He grew up in the shipping industry as his father worked for Kamewa  and moved to Singapore with his family when Håkan was a young boy.  Shipping propellers has been dominating Håkans life at least for the last 14 years, when he and his father bought the bankrupt's estate of Bergs Propulsion  and developed it into a thriving business with a 25 % market sh...

Professor Richard Watson is world famous internet strategist. He is currently researching ecological  sustainability , energy informatics and information system leadership. You find his CV  here  and as you will hear, Richard originates from Australia, Perth. He mentions his colleague since many years,  Marie-Claude (Maric) Boudreau  with whom he has written many books. I met Richard at the first...

Captain Jörgen Lorén is a Master Mariner, currently working on STENA DANICA, a passenger vessel, trading between Sweden and Denmark. Jörgen is an authority when it comes to training massevacuation from passenger vessels, testing new life saving equipment and taking part in developing a new way of thinking when it comes to rescue at sea.  Jörgen works closely with the Swedish Sea Rescue Society  wh...

Thina Margrethe Saltvedt , one of the few female oil analysts in the world. Thina is a frequent guest on both Norwegian and Swedish television as she has the responsibility to communicate Nordea Markets' oil/gas market view, which always is of interest to many. Thina grew up dreaming of becoming a ballet dancer, a career she had to give up, but she still practices dance several times a week.  I re...

Carl Johan Hagman has a long and successful background within the international shipping industry. Trained as a maritime lawyer in his native Sweden, Hagman spent the first eight years of his career with Walleniusrederierna AB and its affiliate Wallenius Wilhelmsen Lines. 2002-2007 he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Eukor Car Carriers Inc. based in Seoul, Korea. In 2007 Carl-Joha...

Jonathan Wichmann is the journalist who turned copywriter and then became the digital communications guru at Maersk Line. Within a year Maersk Line had more than 650,000 followers on Facebook.  Jonathan claims that "Mark Zuckerberg created this for me"! A fact that probably no one at Maersk knew when they brought him in saying "One day we want to move into social media".  You can read the entire s...

Captain Jes Meinertz & Captain Niels Vestergaard Pedersen share the responsibility to be in charge of the vessel MAERSK MC-KINNEY MOLLER and I hade the pleasure of visiting the ship when calling in the Port of Gothenburg in Jan 2015. Being a part of the Maersk organisation, the Captains also have the chance to participate in the ongoing digital communication. Here is a link from when the vessel wa...

The shipping industry is the backbone of international trade, contributing to the globalisation and development of the world, but it's the shipping people who makes the world go around. This is where you meet the maritime professionals, strong characters with an interesting background.  Kudos if you could please share the Shipping Podcast in your social media channels! Follow on twitter:   @Shippi...