Innovation is in shipping veteran's genes, with his latest project developing vessels that make LNG credible as a fuel for tramp dry bulk and tanker shipping

The ship agency sector of the maritime industry remains highly fragmented, but the Multiport network enables smaller companies to offer their customers services in other parts of the world

Container throughput is a measure of a product and not a service, which is how ports should be judged by customers in terms of quality, efficiency, and effectiveness, says Professor Talley, but persuading the industry and those who write about it to shift their focus away from cargo volumes to a more meaningful metric is an uphill struggle

Founder and chief executive of Synergy Group expects another acceleration in fleet expansion next year. But he is equally keen to discuss seafarer welfare and the benefits of encouraging more women to choose a maritime career

Forth Ports chief executive likes Munro climbing, golf and Led Zeppelin, but insists he is anything but dazed and confused

The industry veteran expects shipmanagment consolidation to continue, but appears to have no intention of giving over his own business into the hands of private equity funds

Chris Welsh has spent an entire career trying to rein in container lines and make them serve the customers that keep them in business. As he enters retirement, he talks about the consortia block exemption and the reasons he believes it should be removed

At one level, the discussion about attracting young Japanese to a career at sea is never-ending and the numbers remain discouraging. At another level, this is a discussion about the future of the maritime industry for a proud, export-orientated, and fiercely competitive island nation

As head of Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement since the start of this year, Ian Beveridge has been keen to strike a balance between specialisation and differentiating BSM in terms of its technical capabilities and on the other hand the need for volume in the shipmanagement business

Värde is in for the long haul and seeking to become an alternative capital provider for shipping, managing director Stephen Seymour tells David Osler

Hinchliffe believes he achieved what he set out to do: to grow the ICS’s influence and establish it as the go-to shipping association for governments

Shipping has been good to Guy Platten, who signed up to the Royal Fleet Auxiliary aged 18 and will shortly be heading one of the industry’s major representative bodies