In this episode of "Maritime Means...", Blythe is joined by Sal Mercogliano. Sal is a former merchant mariner and firefighter, and current chair of the Department of History, Criminal Justice, and Political Science at Campbell University in North Carolina. He is also a maritime historian, faculty athletic rep, and the host of “What is Going on With Shipping?” on YouTube. Today, Blythe and Sal will talk about how to understand different maritime jobs, the history of marine disasters, environmental aspects of the industry, and the history of the world of shipping.

In this episode, we have invited Nidhi Gupta, the co-founder of Portcast, a logistics technology start-up in Singapore backed by leading VCs, which uses machine learning and real-time external data to make global supply chains dynamic and predictive. Today, Nidhi guides entrepreneurs in learning to utilize AI to make logistics more effective and data-driven.