Shipping Podcast - Listen To The Maritime Professionals In The World Of Shipping

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 and 50 crewmembers and how that has grown into a substantial ship owning and ship management company, MF Shipping Group, today employing more than 1,000 crewmembers on 52 vessels. This episode of the Shipping Podcast covers a lot, 90 % of everything within shipping I would say; why is a ship called "she"? What is the responsibility of the Godmother of the ship? How Shipowners does chose which flag to fly? SECA, how do that effect the industry? Unmanned ships? Are there only 0.6 % female seafarers in the global merchant fleet?!  Well, you have to listen, this is a real titbit, either you are a mariner or a non-ma

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, regulations, environment, recruitment, infrastructure and how to decide which transport mode to use for which products.  Per is heading the Swedish Shipper's Council, he is a member of the European Shipper's Council and he has a habit of speaking his mind, both to politicians and supplier. Per emphasises that it is unfair to make small countries like Sweden & Finland to take the lead when it comes to changing the environmental footprint of the global merchant fleet. He is referring to the new SECA rules effective from Jan 1st, 2015. Listen to Per and give us your view to our conversation, do that on iTunes, on the websi

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 background to the "Yellow Boats" (gula båtarna) an initiative by the media house Schibsted to assist refugees in need for sea rescue in the Mediterranean Sea, which until Christmas has saved more than 600 lives.  Rolf is retiring soon, he has got a perspective on the shipping industry since the 60's and he thinks that it's his job to make sure that each and every politician realises that we always cross water, when we leave our countries or our continents. Listen to this wise and humble man and tell someone about it - that is the best way to get the Shipping Podcast more well-known, which is our common goal. This e

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 loyal fan of the Shipping Podcast, always supporting and giving feedback! Consuelo speaks about her job what it's like to be a shipping agent and how few female Captains she has met during her 22 years in the maritime industry.  Thank you for 2015, best wishes for a prosperous 2016 - and don't forget to spread the word about the Shipping Podcast! 

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 mentoring young people within the shipping industry.  Danae is passionate about shipping - she wouldn't change it for anything in the world and yet she is troubled over the lack of young people choosing a maritime career. Thank you for listening, please head over to iTunes and give your comments on the content or what you think about this new (for shipping) invention!

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 episode she tells the true story of how she got upset to be the only woman attending gatherings within the maritime cluster in India, making her google for Women in Shipping and through the website find WISTA International.  Sanjam thinks that the industry needs to come together and promote shipping to younger people enabling them to enter and contribute to the developments.  You can do your part to promote the shipping industry by taking the time to write a review on iTunes for this podcast. You find the place if you visit the iTunes Store, where you subscribed (or will subscribe) to the Shipping Podcast. Kudos to

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 passion for the shipping industry, which she tried to leave, but couldn't, and her thoughts that the success factor for their company is that they personally know all their staff, both sailing and on shore.  Thank you for listening to the Shipping Podcast, you are welcome to comment on our website if you liked what you heard! Also L O V E reviews on iTunes!   

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 Lawyers 2015 named by Lloyd's List recently. Jeanne works with the regulatory side of shipping and she sees a very busy future with all the new legislation showering the shipping industry. We have a really nice chat about the benefits of being a member of WISTA, why organisations benefit from having they employees as members of WISTA and of course the fact that WISTA USA I hosting the 2016 WISTA International AGM & Conference onboard the Holland America Line new Cruise Ship KONINGSDAM in November. If you love what you hear, give us a high-five in social media - or make a comment on our website, that gives more peo

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 - shipping grew into my veins as she puts it. How do you market a shipyard? Is there a difference working with marketing & communications for a newbuilding yard and a repair yard?  Why is it important for Damen Shipyard that Sylvia is a member of WISTA the Netherlands? We cover that and then some in this chat about the future of shipping! Join the conversation, post a comment or start in any of the social media you feel comfortable with, someone has to start!  Twitter: @Shippingpodcast Facebook: Shipping Podcast  Website: ShippingPodcast.com

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, which is where we met for the first time in April 2008, at a gathering for women in the maritime industry, which since then has developed into Maritime Women Global Leadership International Conference (MWGL).  I was very surprised the next time I met Naa, at the WISTA International AGM in Paris in 2013, to hear that she had gone back to Ghana and formed a National WISTA Association after our first meeting. Merry Christmas! At the top of my wish list for Christmas is a review on iTunes from you. Thank you for listening! 

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 how everyone takes it for granted without even knowing about it. We touch upon the subject of the lack of women in the industry and what impact that might have. Teresa is a member of the Board of WISTA UK, the National WISTA Association where it all started in 1974. Thank you for listening, why not add to the conversation on how we raise the profile of shipping by commenting in social media or on the website Shippingpodcast.com Thanks for your support! 

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 Dito and he has an interesting view on seamen and their origin. It started with the European seamen going on shore and Shipowners turned to Asia to crew their vessels. Now, when the next continent is raising as the new source for seamen, Africa, and the Asian seamen will go ashore to pursue their maritime careers, what education is then essential? And how to we continue to develop the maritime jobs to be even more attractive?  Listen to Dito Borromeo and get a perspective on crewing, the maritime sector and how he sees his mission to get the Philippines move the world! This episode is brought to you by Stena, an internat

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 Register for their co-operation, not to mention Port of Gothenburg and Port of Kiel.  The big project of converting STENA GERMANICA started after the tests were done on the STENA SCANRAIL, which was the testing vessel for the SPIRETH project.  Methanol as an alternative fuel is partly funded by the EU Commission through the Motorways of the Sea and the Pilot Methanol on the Zero Vision Tool platform.  The shipping industry is getting more and more energy efficient, improving the image as the most environmentally friendly mode of transport. If you want more people to know about this, please share the Shipping Podcast. 

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 is situated. I was given a tour of the office and I can see the benefits of gathering start-ups in this kind of environment. Philip wants to lift the level of innovation in the shipping industry, so if you are interested in that, you can reach Philip on Twitter.  Selektope is co-funded by the eco-innovation initiative of the European Union and has has been approved by the EU Standing Committee on Biocidal Products for EU-wide use from the 1st of January 2016. Thank you for listening. Do the shipping industry a favour and spread the word about this podcast, promoting the entire industry and please write a review on

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 onboard. The ZVT project is somewhat hard to understand at a glance, therefore we have gathered some links here:    Introduction Organisation White Paper EU projects Helen also mentions Sustainable Shipping Initiative, SSI and Royal & Sun Alliance, RSA, where we used to work together.  If you liked this episode, why don't you scream it from the roof tops? Probably because social media is easier and works faster. Shipping Podcast is on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Share your views there or on the website and make my day! #Shippingpod   

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 says Anders, who is a Master Mariner himself and has worked as a VTS operator after his time at sea.   This episode is filled with abbreviations, why it is necessary with a list of them and links to where you can read more about the organisations mentioned.   IMO - International Maritime Organisation   ICS - International Chamber of Shipping   IALA - International Association of Lighthouse Authorities   BIMCO - The Baltic and International Maritime Council   MUNIN - Maritime Unmanned Navigation through Intelligence in Networks   MonaLisa2.0   It's a brimming episode after which you will convinced that there is developm

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, when the tourist company he work for was bought. He thinks the journey he has made since then has been fantastic and is thankful for being given the chance to make change possible!  If you live on an island like Gotland, the ferry is under the skin of each and every citizen as 85 % of everyone is travelling by sea. If you move to an island you ask yourself; is it worth it? How can I run my business from the island? The ferry to and from the island is essential and it is important that the inhabitants, the ferry company and the politicians realise that and work together. Per Erling speaks about the Passenger Shipping A

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 grew up on and around ships and started his career as shipowner with a tanker vessel. Then he was asked by a friend to contribute with his knowledge to an offshore wind vessel, which gave him the idea to develop the concept of the high-speed catamarans that is the business today. Just to realise that the wind offshore industry needed to transport crew and equipment out to the wind farms is one thing, but to bring the concept to the next level, like getting the people being transported to feel comfortable, to find solutions before the demand is there, that is something else. One of Northern Offshore Services is Siemens Of

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 share.  Håkan shares his view on what it means to be a business owner, an innovator and a manager of a shipping supply company on the global arena. He explains the huge consolidation going on among the maritime engine manufacturers, what it means for the shipping industry to be a part of the connected society and how that will attract young people to the industry. Håkan describes the 2008 financial crisis as "walking the plank and not knowing how far you will fall at the end of it, 2 meters or 2 kilometres", and how his father was the anchor with courage and patience to wait for the upturn. Håkans' call to the entire shi

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 Maritime Informatics Conference organised by the Swedish Maritime Competence Centre, Lighthouse in May, 2015, where he was the keynote speaker together with Mikael Lind from Viktoria Swedish ICT. They spoke about "What is Maritime Informatics and why do we need it?" and that is what you will hear in this pod. As Richard is a teacher, we deviate into other areas, which he can explain so easily and pedagogically, we speak about the Business Model You, which we can highly recommend, download the pdf and start cracking!  Richard gives a lot of good examples from other industries which has already managed to transform themselve