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You are meeting 8 shipping business women who attended the Women's International Shipping and Trading Association, WISTA International AGM & Conference in Istanbul, Turkey October, 7-10, 2015.

Danae D. Bezantakou is the Managing Director of Navigator Shipping Consultants and a member of WISTA Hellas. She is a member of several leadership programmes and she has started the Open Mind Group for mentoring young people within the shipping industry.

Danae is passionate about shipping - she wouldn't change it for anything in the world and yet she is troubled over the lack of young people choosing a maritime career.

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You will be meeting 8 shipping business women who attended the Women's International Shipping and Trading Association, WISTA International AGM & Conference in Istanbul, Turkey October, 7-10, 2015.

Sanjam Gupta, Director Sitara Shipping Ltd, India is the President of WISTA India and also a member of the WISTA International Executive Committee, EXCO. She is the founder of WISTA India and in this episode she tells the true story of how she got upset to be the only woman attending gatherings within the maritime cluster in India, making her google for Women in Shipping and through the website find WISTA International.

Sanjam thinks that the industry needs to come together and promote shipping to younger people enabling them to enter and contribute to the developments.

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You are meeting 8 shipping business women who attended the Women's International Shipping and Trading Association, WISTA International AGM & Conference in Istanbul, Turkey October, 7-10, 2015.

In this, the nineteenth episode, I meet with Joan Nuijten-Muller, the current President of WISTA the Netherlands and HR Manager at the family owned tugboat company Multraship B.V.

Joan is sharing her passion for the shipping industry, which she tried to leave, but couldn't, and her thoughts that the success factor for their company is that they personally know all their staff, both sailing and on shore.

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You are meeting 8 shipping business women who attended the Women's International Shipping and Trading Association, WISTA International AGM & Conference in Istanbul, Turkey October, 7-10, 2015.

In the 18th episode of the Shipping Podcast, Jeanne Grasso is in the hot seat. Jeanne is a maritime lawyer and Partner at Blank Rome LLP in Washington DC. She was just listed as number 4 of the Top 10 Lawyers 2015 named by Lloyd's List recently.

Jeanne works with the regulatory side of shipping and she sees a very busy future with all the new legislation showering the shipping industry.

We have a really nice chat about the benefits of being a member of WISTA, why organisations benefit from having they employees as members of WISTA and of course the fact that WISTA USA I hosting the 2016 WISTA International AGM & Conference onboard the Holland America Line new Cruise Ship KONINGSDAM in November.

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You will be meeting 8 shipping business women who attended the Women's International Shipping and Trading Association, WISTA International AGM & Conference in Istanbul, Turkey October, 7-10, 2015.

In this episode you meet Sylvia Boer, a young woman who decided that she had to work within the maritime industry after having watched her father work in this international and dynamic industry - shipping grew into my veins as she puts it.

How do you market a shipyard? Is there a difference working with marketing & communications for a newbuilding yard and a repair yard?

Why is it important for Damen Shipyard that Sylvia is a member of WISTA the Netherlands? We cover that and then some in this chat about the future of shipping!

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Naa Densua Aryeetey, is the Head of Shippers Service at the Ghana Shippers' Authority in Accra. She was one of the founders of WISTA Ghana in 2010 and she has now taken on the task of being one of the members of the WISTA International Executive Committee, EXCO, responsible for spreading the word about women in shipping in Africa.

Naa is a graduate from the World Maritime University in Malmö, which is where we met for the first time in April 2008, at a gathering for women in the maritime industry, which since then has developed into Maritime Women Global Leadership International Conference (MWGL).

I was very surprised the next time I met Naa, at the WISTA International AGM in Paris in 2013, to hear that she had gone back to Ghana and formed a National WISTA Association after our first meeting.

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You will be meeting 8 shipping business women who attended the Women's International Shipping and Trading Association, WISTA International AGM & Conference in Istanbul, Turkey October, 7-10, 2015.

In this episode you will meet Teresa Peacock, Managing Director, Spinnaker Global, Shipping Recruitment. She came into the shipping industry 7 years ago and was amazed by the size of the industry and how everyone takes it for granted without even knowing about it.

We touch upon the subject of the lack of women in the industry and what impact that might have.

Teresa is a member of the Board of WISTA UK, the National WISTA Association where it all started in 1974.

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Gerardo A. Borromeo, CEO PTC Holdings, Chairman of InterManager and Vice Chairman International Chamber of Shipping, ICS, is appearing in this the 14th episode of the Shipping Podcast.

Gerardo, or Dito to his friends, is passionate about shipping and crewing in particular. PTC Holdings have got 600,000 employees onboard 700 vessels around the globe. Education and training is very important to Dito and he has an interesting view on seamen and their origin. It started with the European seamen going on shore and Shipowners turned to Asia to crew their vessels. Now, when the next continent is raising as the new source for seamen, Africa, and the Asian seamen will go ashore to pursue their maritime careers, what education is then essential? And how to we continue to develop the maritime jobs to be even more attractive?

Listen to Dito Borromeo and get a perspective on crewing, the maritime sector and how he sees his mission to get the Philippines move the world!

This episode is brought to you by Stena, an international group of companies involved in many maritime business activities.

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Per Stefenson is the naval architect responsible for the conversion of the STENA GERMANICA to methanol. This project is one of the answers to the SECA rules which has become a talking point all over the world.

Per is mentioning the Methanol Institute as one of their partners when developing this first ever conversion of a ship engine from diesel to methanol. He also praises Wärtsilä and Lloyd's Register for their co-operation, not to mention Port of Gothenburg and Port of Kiel.

The big project of converting STENA GERMANICA started after the tests were done on the STENA SCANRAIL, which was the testing vessel for the SPIRETH project.

Methanol as an alternative fuel is partly funded by the EU Commission through the Motorways of the Sea and the Pilot Methanol on the Zero Vision Tool platform.

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Philip Chaabane is a young CEO at Selektope, a selective marine antifouling technology, who has been working in the automotive industry and now found the shipping industry. From a blank paper to the possibility of seeing it from the inside of course gave him the bug!

The office of Selektope is situated in the Astra Zeneca Bio Venture Hub, which is in the same building where their R&D department is situated. I was given a tour of the office and I can see the benefits of gathering start-ups in this kind of environment.

Philip wants to lift the level of innovation in the shipping industry, so if you are interested in that, you can reach Philip on Twitter.

Selektope is co-funded by the eco-innovation initiative of the European Union and has has been approved by the EU Standing Committee on Biocidal Products for EU-wide use from the 1st of January 2016.

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