Shipping Podcast - this is where we talk about the coolest industry on the planet and help raise the maritime industry's profile.
261 episodes - English - Latest episode: 16 days ago - ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThe 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.
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010 Anders Brödje, Senior Research Co-ordinator, Swedish Maritime Administration
October 23, 2015 05:00 - 1 hour - 51.2 MBAnders 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 a...
009 Per Erling Evensen, former Marketing Manager, Destination Gotland
October 09, 2015 05:00 - 50 minutes - 40.4 MBPer 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 h...
008 David Kristensson, CEO Northern Offshore Services
September 25, 2015 05:30 - 27 minutes - 22.5 MBMeet 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 ...
007 Håkan Svensson, CEO and Owner of Aston Harald
September 11, 2015 05:00 - 36 minutes - 29.2 MBHåkan 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 manage...
006 Professor Richard Watson University of Georgia and Viktoria Swedish ICT
August 28, 2015 05:00 - 54 minutes - 44 MBProfessor 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 M...
005 Captain Jörgen Lorén, Senior Master, STENA DANICA
August 14, 2015 05:00 - 25 minutes - 20.5 MBCaptain 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 which is responsible for 70 per cent of all sea rescues in Sweden and receives no government fund...
004 Thina Margrethe Saltvedt, Senior macro/oil analyst and global commodities strategist at Nordea Markets in Oslo
July 16, 2015 19:49 - 20 minutes - 16.2 MBThina 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 recommend you to follow Thina on Twitter, where she is very active posting about market movemen...
003 Carl Johan Hagman, CEO Stena Line and Stena Rederi AB
July 16, 2015 14:13 - 30 minutes - 24.3 MBCarl 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-Johan returned to Sweden as Chief Executive Officer of Rederi AB Transatlantic and left for Höegh ...
002 Jonathan Wichmann, Co-founder of Orca Social and Wichmann/Schmidt
July 13, 2015 15:52 - 52 minutes - 42.5 MBJonathan 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 story about the success on Jonathans web site http://jonathanwichmann.com/about-me/ and be in...
001 Captain Niels V Pedersen at the helm of MAERSK MC-KINNEY MOLLER
June 10, 2015 11:27 - 19 minutes - 15.7 MBCaptain 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 was launched; http://maersklinesocial.com/blogging-from-the-challenge-of-a-lifetime/ You can...
000 Introduction to the Shipping Podcast
June 07, 2015 11:53 - 1 minute - 1.55 MBThe 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: @Shippingpodcast and/or on Facebook: Shippingpodcast or visit our website Shippingpodcast.com and c...