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

Laxmi Chaudhry has over 30 year's international experience in strategic and operational Human Resources and many years as a Cross-Cultural Specialist and Trainer.

We speak about why it is important to recognise the differences in culture, how to be effective in a global business and how to overcome possible misunderstandings when different cultures meet.

Usually, these issues are discussed first when the bottom line doesn't look as good as expected, but there are so many things you could do prior to reaching that stage. Laxmi gives us examples from her long career as a Cross-Cultural Specialist.

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In this, the 50th episode of the Shipping Podcast, we meet Peter Hinchliffe, Secretary-General of the ICS. He is a former submarine mariner and joined the ICS 15 years ago and since 2010 he is the Secretary-General.

ICS comprises of 36 National Shipowners' Associations and represents around 80% of the world's merchant tonnage. One of the principal roles is to co-ordinate the representation of the international maritime industry at the International Maritime Organization, the International Labour Organization, and at other intergovernmental fora which impact on the interests and well-being of international shipping.

Peter shares what's at the top of the agenda, how ICS cooperate with IMO, EU representing their members, which are the National Shipowners' Associations around the shipping world.

It's an interesting interview, with a lot of environmental topics and also a short version on how to manage political issue for the entire world.

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Kimberly Karlshoej is the Head of Trust at the Seafarers' Trust, she is the woman who tried and escape the maritime industry but was pulled back into the maritime world when the TK Foundation was founded to honour her father, J Torben Karlshoej, who founded the Teekay Corporation, when he passed away.

Listen to Kimberly talk about what it encounters to be the Head of the Seafarers' Trust and all the exciting projects that they are doing right now. Portable Communication Pods Pilot Project, or the autonomous meeting place, with free wi-fi, which allows the seafarers to access communications themselves in a way that they might not been able to do otherwise. They work on games for making things fun and easy to learn and many more exciting things that I found out by talking to Kimberley.

We speak about the survey that the Trust has done among seafarers, which shows that internet is the number one concern of seafarers and they do say that it will affect their jobs they chose in the future, whether or not there is internet onboard.

Listen to this 22nd female guest, of 49 episodes in total, and let me know what you think. You are welcome to comment on iTunes, on the website or in social media, where you find the Shipping Podcast on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

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Meet Remi Eriksen, a long-time employee with DNV with a great interest in technology who now has the responsibility of being Group President and Chief Executive Officer of DNV GL. We talk about what a Classification Society is, how they work and where Remi thinks they can make a difference.

We go into digitalisation, power systems, electrification of short sea shipping, batteries, hybrids, LNG, alternative fuel and new material such as composite, but we also discuss safety at sea. We talk about the fact that in the future, shipping will have the need to recruit people with other sets of skills that what we traditionally have done and we discuss "thought leadership" in the maritime community.

Listen to this episode and comment on what you hear, we need to get the discussion going in order to develop ourselves and the shipping industry.

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Johan Mellqvist is professor in the optical remote sensing group. He focuses his research on the development of spectroscopic optical methods and to use these to gather data related to different environmental problems.

This includes estimating trends of various gaseous species in the large-scale atmosphere to working with air quality issues with particular focus on mapping and quantifying fugitive emissions of gases from industries and to control ship emissions. Johan is a national expert in measuring diffuse emission of hydrocarbons (VOC) and he works with European standardization (CEN).

Johan explains what a "sniffer" is, how that technology works and how that was a spin-off from the original idea to develop survelliance tools to see whether ships were obeying international rules and regulations, or not.

With a background from the car industry, Johan finds it interesting that no one asked on beforehand if it was possible to measure if the SECA regulations were obtained or not. We discuss the results from his work and how his "yellow mailbox" has become a "household name" globally.

If you haven't listened to episode 39 with Anna Larsson, maybe you should do that prior to listening to Johan, but I can assure you, this episode is very interesting anyhow.

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Kevin Richards joined the Bermuda Business Development Agency, BDA, in 2015, bringing more than nine years of financial services experience, including two as marketing manager at GE Canada.

Previously, Kevin spent two years in London with GE Capital International, and also worked for five years in the insurance industry with ACE Group in London and Bermuda. Kevin holds a BA and MBA degree from the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. At the BDA, Kevin is responsible for shipping and aircraft finance sectors.

It is apparent that Bermuda is restructuring its shipping registry to attract more shipowning and management companies to the island, and Kevin is in charge of making that happen. We talk about the things that makes Bermuda attractive both as a flag state but also as a harbour for insurance and reinsurance business.

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Since joining International Registries Inc., IRI's legal staff in 1991, William Gallagher has worked closely with the Marshall Islands government and its legislative agenda.

Although he has traveled around the globe meeting clients and speaking at corporate and maritime seminars, William Gallagher has been most instrumental in working with IRI's Far East clientele.

Prior to joining IRI he specialized in Legal Compliance in the securities industry. He has served as an intern in the United States Senate receiving an award as Intern of the Year and in the German Bundestag, where he enhanced his proficiency in the German language and political culture.

William thinks that the biggest change in the shipping industry for the last 25 years has been regulation. - If you look how vessels were trading in the 70s and 80s and the early 90s, and then look at today, it's a completely different world, he says and refers to a couple of international regulations; SOLAS (International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea), MLC (Maritime Labour Convention), ISM Code (International Safety Management Code) and ISPS Code (International Ship and Port Facility Security Code) which you maybe want to read up on before you listen.

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Meet Hannah van Hemmen, a young scientist and engineer who works as a marine surveyor at MARTIN OTTAWAY. She talks about what it's like to be young in an old fashion industry with cutting edge technology and which she thinks gets too little attention.

Hannah has got some really good ideas how the shipping industry can become more visible, why not take her up on the idea of a female surveyor as the new MacGyver? She also speaks about a book called The sole of a new machine.

Hannah also speaks very fondly about WISTA, Women's International Shipping and Trading Association, where she is a member of the New York Chapter, WISTA USA.

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Brent C. Bruun, Chief Operating Officer of mobile broadband for KVH Industries, joined KVH in 2008 and has been instrumental in setting the strategy for KVH's mini-VSAT Broadband service, which is now the industry's leading maritime VSAT provider.

Brent Bruun is dedicated to creating solutions to meet the maritime industry's need for improved operations through connectivity. Before joining KVH, Brent held positions with satellite operator SES AMERICOM, KPMG LLP, and General Electric.

We discuss the fact that usage of mobile broadband at see is going up, on a monthly basis, that new sattelites are going up and that ew sattelite constellations is formed, which will be able to support the increased use.

Brent sees the future going with the internet of things and the connection between ship and shore becoming vital.

Join the conversation, is the maritime industry ready to embrace digitalisation?

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Espen Poulsson, Chairman of ENESEL PTE. LTD., a Singapore based commercial management and ship owning entity, managing 14 large modern container vessels all under the Singapore Flag.

Mr Poulsson has worked in the maritime industry for over 40 years. He spent 20 years with TORM A/S in a variety of senior management positions in Hong Kong, London, Copenhagen and, most recently, as President & CEO of TORM Singapore Pte. Ltd before stepping down in December, 2009.

He was elected President of the Singapore Shipping Association in June 2015, of which he has been a Council Member since 2007. He also serves on the Board of the Maritime & Port Authority of Singapore (MPA), is an Advisory Council Member of the Singapore Maritime Foundation, and after having served as Vice Chairman of the London based International Chamber of Shipping, on whose Board he represented Singapore, he was elected the Chairman of the Board of the International Chamber of Shipping in January 2016.

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