Tag: Interviews

As the maritime EU ETS enters a more demanding phase, Casiana Fometescu, CEO & Founder of Carbon Expert, highlights the need for shipping companies to integrate carbon management into everyday operational, financial and commercial decisions.

In an exclusive interview, Ryan Son, Managing Director of Rakuten Symphony Singapore & Korea and Head of Rakuten Maritime, stressed that leading industry players are increasingly treating cybersecurity as part of a vessel’s design rather than as an add-on after construction.

As the industry enters the S-100 era, the focus should be on turning data into operational value, Ioannis Papaefthymiou, Head of Commercial Autonomous Navigation and Managing Director at Anschütz Panama & Anschütz do Brasil, noted in an exclusive interview.

In an exclusive interview, Capt. Miguel Vieira de Castro, President of the European Maritime Pilots’ Association (EMPA) stresses that pilotage should not be viewed simply as a service to the shipowner, but as a safety-critical function designed to protect national interests, the environment and critical maritime infrastructure.

SAFETY4SEA spoke with the new Chair of the IACS Council, Alex Gregg-Smith, President of Marine & Offshore at Bureau Veritas. Having assumed the role in July, he says the accelerating pace of change in shipping makes IACS’s role increasingly important, with its Resolutions applying across member societies covering around 90% of global tonnage.

Following the announcement of the new UK Maritime Innovation Hub, we spoke with Jonty Slater, Assistant Director at the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, to learn more about the initiative.

Following the release of this year’s Safety and Shipping Review, we spoke with Captain Nitin Chopra, Senior Marine Risk Consultant at Allianz Commercial, to further explore the key challenges facing the shipping industry.

The IMO MASS Code represents a significant milestone, highlights Tim Howse, Chair of the International Group of P&I Clubs’ Autonomous Vessels Committee.

Capt. Simon Hodgkinson, Head of Loss Prevention at West P&I, talks to SAFETY4SEA about the key welfare and operational issues that can strengthen safety and improve life onboard.

Greg Witherall, the newly appointed Executive Director of Maritime Safety and Environmental Compliance at AMSA, highlighted in an exclusive interview that seafarer welfare remains one of the most important issues facing the international maritime industry.