Cecilia Österman, CEO & Researcher at Comfortably Safe AB and Senior Lecturer, Kalmar Maritime Academy, Linneus University
Welcome to the 109th episode of the Shipping Podcast and the 50th female interviewee! Cecilia Österman is the Chief Engineer that wen ashore and decided to become a researcher. Continue Reading …
Joanne Kelleher, Corporate Communications Advisor at Jumbo
Time to Rock the Boat? Leadership in the maritime industry – what dominates, what is desired?
Joanne Kelleher studied at the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers and in her Master’s degree study she asked 37 Maritime Professionals what they want from their industry leaders and got some interesting results. Joanne shared her insights in an article on LinkedIn, which I found very interesting, so I decided to try and meet Joanne for an interview and she agreed and that is what we speak about in this episode, the 104th. Continue Reading …
Christopher Rex, Head of Research at Danish Ship Finance
Christopher Rex is the Head of Research at the Danish Ship Finance in Copenhagen and a very insightful analyst. We talk about how digitalisation will change the industry, how consumer behaviour is impacting the trade patterns of the world as much as re-sourcing production back to North America and Europe and how the ultra large vessels cannot be used in all trade lanes and how that will impact the shipbuilding industry. Continue Reading …
Dr Tristan Smith, UCL Energy Institute
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 and incentives for low carbon shipping’.Continue Reading …