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Kathy Metcalf, President and CEO at Chamber of Shipping of America.

Kathy graduated in June 1978 with highest honors from the US Merchant Marine Academy with a Bachelor of Science in Marine Transportation and Nautical Sciences. She spent five years as a deck officer aboard crude oil and product tankers.

Kathy became the Director of Maritime Affairs for the Chamber of Shipping of America, a maritime trade association representing US based commercial shipping interests in international, federal and state forums.

Her responsibilities in this position included monitoring and development of positions with regards to legislative and regulatory initiatives and advocacy on issues of impact for the members of the Chamber of Shipping, before various organizations including the International Maritime Organization, the US Congress, and federal and state regulatory agencies.

In this capacity, she has testified before Congressional committees, federal and state regulatory agencies and has attended numerous sessions of the International Maritime Organization initially as the American shipowner representative on the US delegation to the Marine Environment Protection Committee and the Maritime Safety Committee and currently as the American shipowner representative on the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) delegation. Kathy is also the Chairman of the ICS Environmental Sub-Committee.

She took the reins as President & CEO in January 2015.

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Carleen Lyden-Kluss, CEO Morgan Marketing & Communications, Co-Founder and Executive Director of NAMEPA (North American Marine Environment Protection Association) and Ambassador of the International Maritime Organization (IMO).

Carleen is a member of WISTA (Women's International Shipping and Trading Association) where she serves as Press Officer for the International organization, the Connecticut Maritime Association, the Marine Society of the City of New York, INTERTANKO, The National Press Club and is a Past-President of the Propeller Club Chapter of the Port of NY/NJ, as well as a Trustee of Sea Research Foundation and is a Board member of the Working Harbor Committee of New York.

Carleen Lyden-Kluss is a marketing and communications professional specializes in identifying, developing and implementing strategic marketing and communications programs that increase the visibility and effectiveness of NAMEPA as well as the development of educational resources promoting marine environment protection. She works to develop strategic alliances between industry, regulators and environmental groups to "Save the Seas".

This interview was made during the CMA 2016, in Stamford, Connecticut, USA and is the first of 6 made during this maritime trade fair.

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Anna Larsson, Vice President, Global Head of Sustainability, Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics and Chair of the Trident Alliance.

Anna Larsson explains that the Trident Alliance is an industry grouping working for robust enforcement of the new sulphur regulations. When the #SECA areas was introduced, the authorities didn't talk a lot about how to make sure that everyone followed the new regulations. Now the "good guys", who have invested heavily and are following the sulphur regulations putting pressure on the national governments and their authorities to follow up on those who doesn't, the "bad guys".

Anna is of the opinion that there is a need for sanctions that really hearts if we are supposed to reach the proper benefits from the new regulations, the "sulphur effect".

We discuss what will happen in 2020, we touch upon innovations, where Anna thinks that the shipping industry need to open up to outside influence and gives the ORCELLE AWARD as a good example on how WWL every year gets 70-80 examples of good environmental improvements that can be put into operations. Link to the ORCELLE concept ship

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Alisdair Pettigrew has 15 years experience of working in the markets where marine, energy and environment meet. He is co-founder of BLUE, a communications' consultancy, whose mission is to bring new strategic intelligence to reputation management in industries that must alter perceptions of their economic and social value. He came to communications from a successful decade in journalism and as publisher with Informa and Petromedia.

He is has been a senior advisor to Sir Richard Branson's Carbon War Room NGO's shipping operation for over five years, and is an advisor in Clean Marine Energy, a company dedicated to providing tailored solutions for emissions compliance.

He combines outstanding media and opinion former communications skills with the rare ability to originate and develop new vehicles for ideas, research and evidence on compelling issues to give clients ground-breaking opportunities through many channels. He is also the founder of news and information website SustainableShipping.com, and maritime publishing and intelligence company Fathom.

He is a founder and equity partner in Mayfield Corporate Ventures, whose mission is to invest in entrepreneurs seeking to develop solutions where the marine energy and environment markets meet.

Diane Gilpin designed and leads The Smart Green Shipping Alliance, SGSA. It is a collaborative industry initiative created to build technically, commercially and environmentally superior systems solutions for the shipping sector.

It accelerates projects through co-creation, transferring technology and knowledge from offshore yacht racing, F1, renewable energy, aviation and defence to complement deep commercial maritime expertise.

Is a 21st century sailing vessel going to become the billboard where the shipping industry will raise its profile and show the world how serious we are about the future?

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Roger Harris is the Executive Director of the International Seafarers' Welfare and Assistance Network (ISWAN). He joined the International Committee on Seafarer's Welfare (ICSW), the predecessor to ISWAN, six years ago.

Previous to working at ICSW, Roger worked in senior positions, mainly in fundraising, for a range of not for profit organisations including Concern Worldwide (UK), the international development NGO, and The Terrence Higgins Trust, the HIV and AIDS charity. Roger also played a leading role in raising funds in the UK for Nelson Mandela's Presidential election campaign in 1994.

The focus of ISWAN is to promote the welfare of seafarers worldwide. ISWAN runs SeafarerHelp, the free 24 hour multi-lingual helpline for seafarers and their families as well as a number of other projects in support of frontline welfare organisations around the world.

ISWAN train ship visitors around the world to go on board to befriend seafarers, provide advice, and enable them to contact home. So far they have trained over 1000 ship visitors.

ISWAN also produce and distribute information for seafarers on improving health and preventing diseases such as HIV and malaria. We produce a seafarer centre directory for seafarers with details of welfare provision and local amenities available.

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Kate D Adamson is a Blue Futurist and thought-leader in the maritime space, she the founder of Futurenautics, an author, novelist, conference chair and keynote speaker. Alongside her work as keynote speaker, Kate is an accomplished and frequently requested conference MC, roundtable anchor, and has presented both for TV and Radio.

Some of her most requested topics include:

– Future of transport and logistics, drones, autonomous vehicles, impacts on business and consumers.

– Regulatory, Legal and Insurance challenges, the Bureaucratic Singularity in a digital age

– Manufacturing 3.0/Industry 4.0, 3-D & 4-D Printing, nearshoring/next shoring, changing trade flows and consumer demand.

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Kathi Stanzel is the Managing Director of the International Association of Independent Tanker Owners, INTERTANKO since five years. Prior to that she was twelve years with the International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation, ITOPF, and the International Oil Pollution Compensation Funds, IOPC.

Kathi has a background in Coastal Management & Marine Biology and is passionate about the environment, which you can hear in this interview. She is also a shipping industry spokesperson hence very well informed about what's at the top of the agenda within the maritime industry.

We discuss tanker specific issues on the agenda which is the foundation of the strategy going forward for the independent tanker owners.

This is a long interview, where Kathi explains to us where she is coming from and one really understands why so many has asked to listen to her.

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Sue Williams, QPM, is an international, independent kidnap response expert, who spent 32 years as a civil servant in the Scotland Yard, where she ended as head of the Hostage Crisis Negotiation Unit, prior to starting her own company as an independent consultant.

Sue has been involved in hundreds of hostage situations including piracy attacks and she walks us through the various stages of an attack and how to prepare for the worst before it happens and practise!

Did you know that there is something as awful as fake kidnappers who try and parasitize when they learn about an ongoing hostage situation?!

As a Crisis Management Team, you have to detach yourself from emotions, which isn't easy, but crucial in order to achieve the ultimate goal, to get the people back, sound and safe. There is no greater feeling than to be able to bring back someone to their families, says Sue.

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Kathleen C. Haines (Kathy) is the Chief Financial Officer, CFO, and Treasurer of Heidmar Inc. and is responsible for the financial management and reporting for Heidmar Inc. and subsidiaries, and for Heidmar International Pools Inc. and subsidiaries. She is also a member of the Heidmar Executive Committee.

Kathy has over 20 years of financial and accounting experience within the maritime industry. Prior to joining Heidmar in 2012, she was a principal of Holbridge Capital Advisors, a financial consulting firm specializing in the maritime industry. Until its sale in 2007, Kathy was the CFO of OMI Corp., one of the largest tanker companies listed on the NYSE.

We discuss the tanker business, still the segment in shipping where you find the big boys, and how Kathy send a lot of time on compliance and screening people they do business with. All oil majors have their own vetting systems and it is important to score vetting points to keep the vessel in business.

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