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

Invited by the Opening Oceans Conference , a new initiative by NOR-Shipping to help realize the potential of the ocean space, I met Nir Gartzman , from theDOCK innovation hub , who was invited to participate in the Nordic ThinkTank session. Nir has an interesting background, he is a Chief Engineer and an Israeli navy officer who has spent the last 10 years in the high-tech & the clean-tech sector...

Meet the environmental scientist who fell into IT, which made him fall into the maritime industry focusing on digitalisation & innovation, Matt Duke , Chief Business Process Officer, Grieg Star .   Matt started his maritime career with Odfjell , where he became Global Head of IT and built up a fascination for the shipping industry, which he wanted to become better via IT and to save money by a mor...

I met Chris Clott at the Opening Oceans Conference in Copenhagen early May and since he has a much experience from the maritime industry after having worked for liner companies, specialised in business strategy and also is one of the co-founders of the Maritime Global Innovation Centre , he gives a crash-course on where the maritime industry is right now when it comes to Industry Revolution 4.0. ...

Lasse Kristoffersen started in Torvald Klaveness in 2007 heading up the business unit Klaveness Maritime Logistics. In September 2011 he was appointed new Chief Executive Officer for Torvald Klaveness and became the first company CEO from outside the Klaveness family. Lasse describes the journey from a genuine, traditional shipowner to a true digital organization ready to meet the demands of the f...

Thomas Öström is the passionate person who wanted to find the solution to climate change. He is challenged by the use of fossil fuel and had an idea on how to use the energy in waste heat from industries and low-temperature geothermal heat to generate electricity. The company Climeon started in 2011 and has entered the maritime industry by turning heat into clean electricity, unaffected by weather...

Dorothea G. Ioannou is the Chief Operating Officer of the Shipowners Claims Bureau Inc ., New York, in addition to leading the team in Piraeus . In 2017, Dorothea received the Next Generation Shipping Award at the Lloyd's List Global Awards in London , which we talk about in addition to the value of social media, to create a talent pool and to be kind to people.  We discuss leadership and the impo...

Meet Stelios Magkanaris , a Fellow of the Association of Average Adjusters, who is a Marine Claims Adjuster of the Piraeus Team of The Swedish Club , which is a marine insurance company. Stelios shares his experiences from having worked with marine casualties for a very long time, after having been brought up in a shipping family. It's easy to sense his passion for the maritime industry and the ma...

Meet Harald Huso , a developer of new media with a background of twenty years in Norwegian media, advertising, and new media. He even started a maritime tv channel some ten years ago, unfortunately, the financial crisis made it impossible to continue with that, but Harald has the experience and the knowledge about how to use digital media for branding and communication. We speak about maritime sup...

What are the implications and costs of regulations? How can public procurement be used to reduce the environmental footprint?  You need to listen to Synne Marie Mossevig , who works with these issues at DNVGL in Olso . We talk about the impact of regulations, what and who influences the regulators and dives into the "usual questions" about visibility, #nextgen & the future of the #shipping industr...

Ship finance, an exciting rare side of the maritime industry. How does it work, where is the capital? Can that capital be accessed by the new start-ups, or is that only for the traditional borrowers? Who is better to answer all my questions than Ingrid Due Gundersen , now CFO of Hoegh Autoliners , one of the 10 women to watch for the future in the maritime industry ? We also chat about what it's l...

Jim Paddon , Senior Executive, Marsh Global Energy & Power, explains the marine insurance market and how it has changed over the years. Large risks like oil drilling rigs, how are they insured? What are the challenges for a marine insurance broker? What is it like to be working in a global market? All of those questions are raised in my chat with Jim, and of course, the usual questions that all th...

Nina M Hanevold-Sandvik , Senior Lawyer at  Wikborg Rein  in Oslo, is an expert on litigation. She is part of the emergency response team that goes out if there is a casualty with a vessel involved.  Nina has got tips for young people entering the industry and she is a vivid advocate for the Maritime Trainee Program set up by the Norwegian Shipowners Association, which you can hear more about in e...

Thea Thorstensen used to be a Claims Executive at Skuld , but have now changed and become an Underwriter. She loves her work, you can hear that in her voice, and is definitely a woman that we will see developing the maritime industry into something more and something bigger - if that is even possible.  Thea is one of the ten women to watch for the future according to her peers in YoungShip and I a...

Tom Kleppesto, "Jack of all Trades" and a well-connected shipping man tell the story about how he has managed the Maritime Trainee program on behalf of the Norwegian Shipowners Association for a decade. We get to know how it was set up, run and what Tom thinks is the outcome of the program. We get some stories from how the students were chosen and how Tom see the changes both from the students' si...

Kristine Hasle Øverby is a Partner at Wiersholm Lawfirm in Oslo. She is specialized in shipping finance and deals with contractual law. Kristine is one of the 10 women to watch for the future according to YoungShip, and in this episode, we speak a lot about diversity, role models and what it's like to be a young female in a male-dominated industry, but we also get to hear about the offshore crises...

To be able to learn and gain knowledge, see the things that could change an entire industry and make it more transparent, that is what Patrik Berglund , CEO, and Co-Funder of Xeneta , is talking about in this the 79th episode of the Shipping Podcast . Hear him speak about the journey that took them from an idea to a success and what obstacles they had to face to reach the place where they are now,...

Port Collaborative Decision Making concept (Port CDM), part of the  Sea Traffic Management Validation Project - STM and the winner of the Digital Enabler Award 2017  -meet the Project leader, Mikael Lind, Associate Professor, Research Institutes of Sweden, RISE Viktoria , who now has been bitten by the "shipping-bug" and loves Ports.  How can the ports increase their efficiency by becoming digital...

Meet Åsa Kärnebro, Harbour Master , Port of Gothenburg , in the 77th episode of the @ShippingPodcast . Åsa is a Master Mariner with long experience; all from sailing on tankers, teaching university students at the Maritime Academy to the HR responsibility for seagoing personnel.  Being a Harbour Master entails a lot of different responsibilities, more than you think. Åsa is sharing all the differe...

Meet Stine Mundal, Head of Section Environmental Certification, DNVGL a naval architect, based in Hamburg, Germany.  Stine is Norwegian, educated in Norway, a trainee in Norway, working in France and Singapore and now based in Hamburg. She shares her view as a young woman in the maritime industry and is one of the 10 Women to watch for the future in the maritime industry, awarded by YoungShip . Yo...

At the Sea Traffic Management Conference in Venice in September, I found myself having the opportunity to speak to an expert in the field of the blockchain, also the point of contact between IBM and Maersk when it comes to this technology, so I couldn't help myself but to record our conversation. And Norbert was up for it!  So, all the questions you might have, I had the opportunity to put! Why is...

Meet Mark Dembitz , Business Developer for Spire , and listen to him discuss how AIS signals can be gathered and turned into interesting input for business strategies in the maritime industry.  Is this industry ready for data analysis? How long will it take before the 3rd party analysis becomes obsolete? Or will that never happen?  More questions than answers after this interesting conversation th...

Matthew Tillman , CEO & Founder, Haven Inc , is bringing a fresh perspective on the maritime industry, where he thinks we need to gain back our self-confidence and recognize that we are as important as the internet, another obvious important, constantly delivering mode of transport.  Haven does not want to become a broker, they work on a fixed subscription fee and have been successful in attractin...

Therese Jällbrink, Business Interaction Manager, Stena Bulk , started her career 15 years ago when she decided to become a Master Mariner. After having tested out to be at sea, she realized it was not for her, so she changed into studying Shipping & Logistics. She got an internship at Brostrom Tankers, where she worked for a couple of years before she joined Stena Bulk as a trainee. She is now par...

Ian Williams is best known for his success in match racing. He is the only skipper to have won 6 World Championships and also has 6 National Championships and 3 Youth National Championships in the discipline. He was the first Briton to win the match racing World Championships and as of the end of 2017, World Match Racing Tour Season is a 16 times winner on the Tour with 43 podium finishes. I met w...

Fasten your seatbelts and press play on the 70th episode of the Shipping Podcast. It's all about innovation and the new era we are entering into now. And a little bit about connectivity and broadband at sea & why it's important to make the crew happy onboard a ship. Listen to Geir Isene  from the Dualog Innovation Garage talking about how innovation is essential for the maritime industry to become...