Shipping Podcast - this is where we talk about the coolest industry on the planet and help raise the maritime industry's profile.

The 100th! It's a milestone! I take the opportunity to share what I have learnt by starting a podcast in the maritime industry. How it all started with a crazy idea and borrowed equipment onboard the worlds' largest container ship MAERSK MCKINNEY MOLLER and her Captain.

I got the advice to start by sharing 4 episodes, just in case the prospective listeners wouldn't get hooked if I only shared one episode and that wasn't to their taste.

1. Captain Niels V Pedersen

2. Carl Johan Hagman

3. Jonathan Wichmann

4. Thina Saltvedt

Those super interesting people were kind enough to give me the best takeoff ever, how could I go wrong when I had their support?

I speak about "behind the scenes" and what I have learned about how the companies in the maritime industry view marketing & advertisements, i.e. not at all.

It's time to rethink the branding of the entire maritime industry, we need to make changes to reach young people and attract them to the industry. I realise how us discussing autonomous shipping have effects on if young people want to study to become Master Mariners or not.

In addition, I answer the most common questions I get as the little Disrupter I have grown to be.

Do you earn any money on this?

How do you find your guests?

I would be happy to answer more questions, I just didn't want to bore you with too much information. Send in your questions, if you are tech savvy (!) you can use your mobile phone and record a voice message and send to me. That would be so much fun!

If you are shyer, use my email [email protected]

Whatever you do, give me some feedback!

/Lena

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Meet a true Scandinavian, a female leader from Sweden, living in Denmark and working for a Norwegian company, meet Sofia Fürstenberg Stott, Owner of Fürstenberg Maritime Advisory and Business Development Manager at Nor-Shipping.

With a background as a Chemical Engineer, she has already spent time in many of the well-known organisations in the maritime industry, such as DNV(GL), Maersk and now Nor-Shipping. She is a force to be reckoned with and she has a very special talent for making visions into something tangible. Sofia is the brain behind the concept of the Opening Oceans Conference.

I seized the opportunity to discuss some topics that have been weighing on my mind for a while, and maybe I was too hard on her, but I think we agreed on some things when it comes to the visibility of the shipping industry.

Thank you to Sofia and thank you for listening. This conversation needs feedback, what do you think? Please give us a shoutout in social media or comment on the website www.shippingpodcast.com

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Bjørn K. Haugland is a Naval Architect who got the sustainability perspective when he lived in China a few years ago. He started in the oil & gas industry and then worked with quality assurance of marine operations for a couple of years, but when he saw the environmental challenges his social interest became his focal point and today Bjørn is the Chief Sustainability Officer in the entire DNV GL Group.

We discuss the changes to the industry today, how innovative the maritime industry is but how we as an integrated part of a longer supply chain needs to step up even more.

Bjørn K. Haugland thinks that the maritime industry needs more female leaders and more female engineers, which will drive innovation and communication and make sure that we attract the brightest minds to our industry.

Thank you for listening, this was the 8th and last interview from the Opening Oceans Conference held in Copenhagen, May 2-3, 2018. What do you think? Have you learned something new? How did you like the keynote speakers? I love feedback! I am @lenagothberg in all social media channels, please tell me!

At the Opening Oceans Conference, organised by NOR Shipping, I met with Paul Holthus, CEO of the World Ocean Council, WOC, who was one of the keynote speakers. Paul founded WOC when he saw that shipping and the ocean environment are both inseparably linked, but with the former having a dramatic effect on the latter.

Listen to Paul speaking about how the Young Ocean Professional network works, through referrals and introductions and how this network is growing. More than 35,000 volunteers are collaborating to reach the SDG:s and now WOC is also focussing on female leadership, working together with Women's International Shipping & Trading Association, WISTA, amongst others.

What do you think when listening to Paul? I am interested in hearing your view, I am @lenagothberg in all social media channels, or you can go to www.shippingpodcast.com and make a comment.

Thank you for listening.

Peter Thomson @ThomsonFiji the United Nations Special Envoy for the Oceans, was one of the keynote speakers at the Opening Oceans Conference in Copenhagen, May 2-3, 2018 and I managed to catch him for an interview.

He travels the world to promote and advocate for the SDG 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development

Peter says it has been an uphill battle until the Ocean Conference in New York 2017, where the governments of Fiji & Sweden left a great legacy. After that, he sees a HUGE change in how the SDG 14 has risen to the agenda all over the world.

Prosperity will depend on trade, so Peter Thomson has a very positive view of the future for the shipping industry, but we have to be seen to support the IMO strategy.

I am so interested to hear your view on what Peter is talking about in this episode. You can reach me on @lenagothberg and Peter Thomson via @ThomsenFiji

Thank you for listening!

Attending the Opening Oceans Conference, which creates a roadmap for maritime business leaders to explore the new ocean economy options, discover synergies with their existing businesses, meet investment and gateway partners and make profitable strategic decisions, in Copenhagen early May 2018, I met Daniela Fernandez, a passionate young woman who wants to engage young people in innovation, change and new ideas about how to use the Ocean space. Daniela is the Founder & CEO of the Sustainable Ocean Alliance.

After having been invited to several gatherings with Heads of States and people from the United Nations, she asked herself "Why am I the only young person in the room?" and started to think about how the two worlds can come together. Now the Sustainable Ocean Alliance consists of 75 chapters in 50 countries, where each chapter gathers 15-300 youth leaders.

Listen to Daniela and give her a shoutout in social media, what she is doing is so meaningful and necessary, so you need to get involved yourself.

And don't forget to look into the new buzzwords, incubator, accelerator, and corporate accelerator. You need to know these terms and what they stand for.

I am @lenagothberg in all social channels and I look forward to hearing from you. Thanks for listening!

Invited by the Opening Oceans Conference, a new initiative by NOR-Shipping to help realize the potential of the ocean space, I met Nir Gartzman, from theDOCK innovation hub, who was invited to participate in the Nordic ThinkTank session.

Nir has an interesting background, he is a Chief Engineer and an Israeli navy officer who has spent the last 10 years in the high-tech & the clean-tech sector in Israel when his passion for the maritime industry made him focus on the digital arena and co-found an innovation hub.

TheDock gathers innovators, investors and corporate partners on the same platform, which has been set up after having met with 20+ other innovation hubs for other sectors in Israel, they can now say that this is the best practice for how to do it.

Nir states that the coming 5 years will be very interesting for ships, operations, and ports. He can see the maritime sector follow the same paths as automotive & fin-tech has done and it's time to catch the opportunity to leverage the worldwide global connections that the maritime industry is so good at and make it into an advantage for a more transparent, accessible service to the customers.

Listen to Nir and let us know your thoughts! Comment on www.shippingpodcast.com or in social media @shippingpodcast

Meet the environmental scientist who fell into IT, which made him fall into the maritime industry focusing on digitalisation & innovation, Matt Duke, Chief Business Process Officer, Grieg Star.

Matt started his maritime career with Odfjell, where he became Global Head of IT and built up a fascination for the shipping industry, which he wanted to become better via IT and to save money by a more structured way of working.

When it became time to move on there was a choice between shipping & digital - and he found somewhere he could combine those two passions, at Kongsberg Digital where he was one of the minds behind Kognifai.

Matt was one of the keynote speakers at the Opening Oceans Conference in Copenhagen, early May, where this interview was recorded. With birds singing in the background (!).

Remember the mantra? Subscribe, download and listen - and then go and tell everyone that you meet that they need to listen to the Shipping Podcast!

I met Chris Clott at the Opening Oceans Conference in Copenhagen early May and since he has a much experience from the maritime industry after having worked for liner companies, specialised in business strategy and also is one of the co-founders of the Maritime Global Innovation Centre, he gives a crash-course on where the maritime industry is right now when it comes to Industry Revolution 4.0.

With the goal to influence & drive change, Chris sees the necessity of collaboration and he would very much like to have that once he has figured out HOW it's going to be done and then identified WHO can make it occur? If you want to reach out to Chris, he is @CCMaritime on Twitter.

Chris thinks that Scandinavia is ahead of the US when it comes to digital transformation but he can see the entire spectra in a true transformation when looking on a global scale. There are the Prospectors, where he counts Scandinavia, the Analysts, the Defenders and the total Reactors. They are all there and even though it's most fun to look at the two first groups, the total reactors, they will probably not be here in a short number of times, things are changing, like it or not.

What is your view on what Chris is talking about? Where are you in this development? Can you list some of the true prospectors?

I would like to hear from you. I am @lenagothberg everywhere in social media, and there is a website for you to comment on if you are not into social media, it's www.shippingpodcast.com

Lasse Kristoffersen started in Torvald Klaveness in 2007 heading up the business unit Klaveness Maritime Logistics. In September 2011 he was appointed new Chief Executive Officer for Torvald Klaveness and became the first company CEO from outside the Klaveness family.

Lasse describes the journey from a genuine, traditional shipowner to a true digital organization ready to meet the demands of the future and how everyone in Torvald Klaveness will be invited to take part in that journey.

I met Lasse at the Opening Oceans Conference in Copenhagen on May 2nd, 2018. This is a new initiative from Nor-Shipping to help maritime and ocean industry players realize the unique business potential of the ocean space.

Download, listen and spread the word!

Thank you for listening!

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