Innovation

Nor-Shipping Ocean Leadership Conference 2019: First names announced

Nor-Shipping unveiled some of the headline names set to appear at this year’s Nor-Shipping Ocean Leadership Conference on 4 June. IMO Secretary General Kitack Lim, Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg, Lise Kingo, CEO of the UN Global Compact, Ann-Christin Andersen, TechnipFMC’s Chief Digital Officer, and technologist Ramez Naam, Chair of Energy & Environmental Systems at Singularity University, are the first high profile names to be made public.

This year’s Nor-Shipping, taking place from 4 to...

https://safety4sea.com/nor-shipping-ocean-leadership-conference-2019-first-names-announced/

Nicklas Viby Fursund, Partner & MD at Rainmaking Transport

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Pier47 is an office building located on the Langelinie Pier in Copenhagen, where Rainmaking Transport is creating a space for maritime start-ups. It’s beautifully located at the quayside, but the most beautiful things are inside, it’s the corporates’ digital setups that have been given the freedom to work outside the traditional organisation chart – and the maritime start-ups where the sky is the limit of what they are going to achieve.

Meet Nicklas Viby Fursund, Partner & MD at Rainmaking...

https://shippingpodcast.com/nicklas-viby-fursund-partner-md-at-rainmaking-transport/

Lena Göthberg, Producer and Host of the Shipping Podcast

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...

https://shippingpodcast.com/lena-gothberg-producer-and-host-of-the-shipping-podcast/

Port of Hamburg to have a Hyperloop transportation system

The collaboration between Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) and the US-based research and development company Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) aims at constructing a system that would enable transporting containers at high speed through a tube to and from the Port of Hamburg.

Namely, the partnership was announced on December 5th by Angela Titzrath, Chairwoman of HHLA’s Executive Board, and Dirk Ahlborn, founder and CEO of HTT, at a joint event.

As explained both companies aspire...

https://safety4sea.com/port-of-hamburg-to-have-a-hyperloop-transportation-system/

Carboline accepts Frost & Sullivan Award for North American anti-corrosion coatings new product innovation

Carboline is a global leader in coatings, linings, and fireproofing, and recently accepted the North American Anti-Corrosion Coatings New Product Innovation Award at Frost & Sullivan’s 2018 Best Practices Awards Gala.

“Carboline is proud to receive this recognition and award,” Chris Tiernay, Carboline’s President & COO, said in a statement announcing the award. “Being named as the Frost & Sullivan’s 2018 New Product Innovation Award winner is a testament to our commitment to innovation, our...

https://www.workboat.com/press-release/carboline-accepts-frost-sullivan-award-for-north-american-anti-corrosion-coatings-new-product-innovation/

Sofia Fürstenberg Stott, Business Development Manager, Nor-Shipping

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...

https://shippingpodcast.com/sofia-furstenberg-stott-business-development-manager-nor-shipping/

Bjørn K. Haugland, Executive Vice President and the Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) in DNV GL Group

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...

https://shippingpodcast.com/bjorn-k-haugland-executive-vice-president-and-the-chief-sustainability-officer-cso-in-dnv-gl-group/

Nir Gartzman, Co-Founder, theDOCK innovation hub

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...

https://shippingpodcast.com/nir-gartzman-co-founder-thedock-innovation-hub/

Matthew Duke, Chief Business Process Officer, Grieg Star

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 &...

https://shippingpodcast.com/matthew-duke-chief-business-process-officer-grieg-star/

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