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. Continue Reading …
Anders Brödje, Senior Research Co-ordinator, Swedish Maritime Administration
Per Erling Evensen, former Marketing Manager, Destination Gotland
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.Continue Reading …
David Kristensson, CEO Northern Offshore Services
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. Continue Reading …
Håkan Svensson, CEO and Owner of Aston Harald
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 Berg Propulsion and developed it into a thriving business with a 25 % market share.Continue Reading …
Professor Richard T. Watson, University of Georgia and Viktoria Swedish ICT
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.Continue Reading …
Captain Jörgen Lorén, Senior Master, STENA DANICA
Captain Jörgen Lorén is a Master Mariner, currently working on STENA DANICA, a RoPax 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.Continue Reading …
Thina Margrethe Saltvedt, Senior macro/oil analyst and global commodities strategist at Nordea Markets in Oslo
Thina Margrethe Saltvedt is 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. Continue Reading …
Carl Johan Hagman, CEO Stena Line and Stena Rederi AB
Carl Johan Hagman, CEO Stena Line and head of all maritime activities in the Stena Group. Carl Johan has a long and successful background within the international shipping industry. Continue Reading …
Jonathan Wichmann, Co-founder of Orca Social and Wichmann/Schmidt
Jonathan Wichmann, Co-founder of Orca Social and Wichmann/Schmidt, 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.Continue Reading …
Captain Niels V. Pedersen at the helm of MAERSK MC-KINNEY MOLLER
Niels V. Pedersen is one of the Captains on the MAERSK MC-KINNEY MOLLER, a TripleE vessel, carrying more than 18,000 TEU:s from Asia to Europe. The interview took place on Jan 13th, 2015 when the vessel was calling Port of Gothenburg.Continue Reading …
