Port To Port Podcast
Episodes
16 episodes
#14 Sasi Prabhakaran on Maritime Innovation | Assets, Sustainability, and the UAE's Global Edge
From professional profiles and public records:Sasi Prabhakaran serves as Director - Maritime Assets at AD Ports Group, a flagship UAE-based ports, logistics, and maritime services provider under ADQ, headquartered in Abu Dhabi. In this ...
#17 Chris Goldsworthy on Steering Maritime Excellence & Professional Development
Chris Goldsworthy CEng CMarEng FIMarEST is Chief Executive at the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (IMarEST). Chris spent 16 years at sea before transitioning to ship management ashore, where he worked for 20 years. ...
#15 Gaurav Singh Solanki on Mastering Drydock Dynamics and Ship Repair Evolution in Dubai
Gaurav Singh Solanki MBA serves as Project Manager (Ship Repair Manager) at Drydocks World - Dubai, a premier DP World subsidiary and global leader in ship repair, conversions, and offshore fabrication, based in Dubai's Mina Rashid and Al Jadda...
#18 Sidsel Norvik on Nor-Shipping’s Record-Breaking Legacy and Maritime Transformation
Sidsel Norvik is Director of Nor-Shipping, the world’s premier biennial maritime exhibition and conference, organized by the Ocean Industry Forum Oslosfjord and headquartered in Oslo, Norway. She leads commercial strategy, content curation, sta...
#16 Kyle Pemberton on Innovation & Sustainability | Engineering Offshore Resilience
Kyle Pemberton serves as Vice President of Engineering at SEACOR Marine Holdings, a Houston, Texas-based provider of offshore marine services. The company operates a fleet of liftboats, offshore supply vessels (OSVs), and specialty vessels prim...
#11 Ramesh Biradar: The biggest challenge was maintaining work-life balance
Ramesh recalls a memorable incident with his dad and a recruiting officer named Mr. Hoshang Dasdu that led to him signing his first contract in the shipping industry. He didn't have a specific mentor but learned from different chief engineers a...
#10 Hatem Elgameil - Changing from Marine Engineer to Naval Architect, Moving your family around the world and leading teams in complex projects
Summary:Hatem Elgameil, a Naval architect and Marine engineer, introduces himself and his background. He immigrated to the United States in 1994 and has worked in various engineering roles throughout his career. He joined IMI Inte...
#9 Per Cristian Dettwiler - Destined for shoreside, Going after an MBA and starting a Wagyu Beef Farm
Summary:Gordon interviews Per Cristian with an untraditional shipping background who had a desire to work on ships from a young age. Per Cristian shares their family's seafaring legacy and their own journey from Switzerland to No...
#8 Bob Sanguinetti - A life in the Royal Navy, transitioning from UK Chamber of Shipping to Leading Aberdeen Harbour
Summary:Bob Sanguinetti, CEO of Aberdeen Harbour Board and former Royal Navy officer, discusses his career and the reasons for transitioning from the UK Chamber of Shipping to Aberdeen. He highlights Aberdeen's potential in leadin...
#7 - Frank Coles - The journey from seafarer to CEO and the fight to create a green channel for seafarers
Frank Coles is a former seafarer that made the career decision to come ashore and study maritime law which eventually led to him becoming the President of Inmarsat, CEO of Transas and most recently the CEO of Wallem Group.Known for his ...
Chris McDade - Going from Deck Cadet to VP of Gas Ops at Teekay, Seafarer Career Development and Taking on Challenges (#6)
Chris McDade was appointed as Vice President of Gas Operations by Teekay in the Summer in the middle of the COVID pandemic. His rise within Teekay to his new position has been relentless and his willingness to take on new projects and suc...
Thomas Wøidemann - Becoming CEO of Lauritzen Kosan and How Consistently Taking on New Challenges Made All The Difference In His Career (#5)
Thomas Wøidemann is the CEO of Lauritzen Kosan in Copenhagen. We discuss a range of topics from what it took for him to achieve his career goals and how his loyalty and consistency in accepting new challenges within his company helped him advan...
Chrissie Clark - Breaking Diversity Barriers in Maritime, Diversity Initiatives and Lessons from Mining (#4)
Chrissie Clark is the Programme Manager for Diversity & Skills with Maritime UK. Chrissie has made great strides so far in her first year in the post strengthening the existing Women in Maritime Network and Launching the LBGT ...
Alexander Varvarenko - Breaking through technology barriers, Changing the Shipping Sector and Building ShipNext
Alexander is the CEO and Founder of SHIPNEXT and VARAMAR. In this episode we discuss the thought process behind starting SHIPNEXT and some of the challenges he has met since starting SHIPNEXT. As a company SHIPNEXT is a global trade...
Jon Loken - Succeeding as a Start Up in COVID, Technology Advancements and Chord-X (#2)
Launching a Marine Tech Start Up is never going to be an easy task but at Chord-X spending the majority of your first year in business in the COVID Pandemic hasn't stopped them.I this episode we learn more about Jon and non maritime sta...
John Wood - The Journey to becoming CEO of Infrastrata, Year 1 of Harland & Wolff and The Future for British Shipbuilding (#1)
It has been a hard year for many but one of the positive stories to emerge has been the acquisition of Harland & Wolff Belfast and Harland & Wolff Appledore by Infrastrata Plc.In this episode we can learn a bit more about the ma...